P: Photoshop creates a gude log while working with files

Yes that is a workaround with a performance hit.

Not a fix! I agree but gotcrid of the annoying file creation and I have enough performance that it's a minor nuisance for me!

Same situation for me, create a gude log at every file i open in photoshop.

I believe that means you also just turned off all your GPU support and performance, which is another workaround - not a solution 😞

SOLVED-For Me

Photoshop 24.1 on WIndows 10/Intel HD Graphics 530 was producing the same behavior. A gude log file created everytime I opened any type of image file.

My fix was to go into Preferences/Performance and in the top right uncheck Use Graphic Processor setting under Graphic Processor Settings.

No moer gude files!

Since a few months I find small text files in my photofolders. They look like this: gude-2023-01-10.

They stay there even after closing Photoshop. What is the use of these and how to get rid of them?

Can this reply get pinned underneath the original question? - That would hopefully stop all the similar postings (mine included!)- people wading through the whole thread to try and find answers. At the moment all people see is "Thanks for the report. This is being investigated by engineering."

Also .. workarounds are not the answer. Adobe needs to fix this, plain and simple.

Tele55, that post was accurate when it was written. The preference settings have changed over the later versions, as the GPU code gets migrated from OpenGL to Metal/DirectX.

 And a few settings have been removed because they turned out to be problematic, and may or may not resurface in different form later.

We realize this thread has become somewhat of a hot mess right now! The reason for merging your posts is to have one central thread to wait for news of a fix. I'm not sure if it's always warranted to combine posts. But when there is a widespread bug such as this one, and we are all experiencing the exact same thing, it helps to consolidate all the reports. Please know that some of us are working on getting answers about when a fix will be delivered. As mentioned before, the easiest workaround seems to be to launch Photoshop first when we can remember to.