P: Photoshop creates a gude log while working with files

The log file is only *visible* next to what you are opening if the file is double clicked. If the file is opened from within PS, no gude-yyy-mm-dd.txt file is spawned.

In summary, yes, the log file does consistently sit "next to the file you're opening", if you dbl click, but does not sit next to the file if it is opened in a PS dialog. Any way you slice it, Adobe Sync is being dumb and littering the filesystem with crud, which in my case is syncd to my OneDrive and my Wasabi S3...

The log file sits next to the file you're opening, wherever that is. End of.

re the proposal of opening PS without double clicking a file NOT creating a GUDE log file, I bet it does create a file, probably in your userdata roaming profile folder... but you are just not seeing it. I will test, but will need some kind of disk/process monitor to validate.

What a mess. We shouldn't have to open files from within the program (a pain when you work accross extensive networks). Why is this still going on from Spring 2022? Adobe CC gives me updates CONSTANTLY - when can we expect a fix for this? My IT Dept had to interrupt my work to delete these and spent some time trying to uninstall and reinstall before this thread was found. Talk about a waste of time. Really, please give us a date for this fix. 

I can confirm this behavior.

If Photoshop is already running, double-clicking a file in Windows File Explorer to open it does not generate the log file. The log file is only generated if Photoshop is not running.

New workaround found today.

If I double an image to launch Photoshop, gude log is generated.

If I launch Photoshop first, then open the same image no log file.

Seems to me that adobe latest update broke something tied to windows which starts the error log generation.

Still a bug!

Adobe is aware, there is a bug open in their bug tracking system, nobody outside of Adobe engineering knows what priority that bug has or how complicated the fix might be. The workaround is simple- don't double-click files in Windows Explorer to launch Photoshop.

They're reading, don't worry.

Do we even know if anyone from Adobe is looking at this? The last post from an Adobe employee seems to have been in May last year.

Noise is what you get with 25 separate threads about the same issue.

This way, the engineers have all the info they need in one thread. Even if it takes a bit of scrolling, that's better than 25 tabs in your browser, trying to correlate who said what and when.

And if it gets resolved, there's one thread to post that too, and everyone gets the message.