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andrewb60603433
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March 22, 2026
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Repeated internet downloads when using Photoshop Camera Raw Filter

  • March 22, 2026
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I’ve recently got a an Asus V16 laptop (Intel Core 7 240H, RTX 5070, Windows 11), and have just installed Photoshop on it. This seems to visibly work, but when I open Camera Raw Filter, an internet download keeps happening in the background consuming internet bandwidth. The download repeats every one to two minutes, and about 200Mb each time.

From what I can see with Resource Monitor it seems to be downloading something from “server-18-244-140-14.lhr50.cloudfront.net” or very similar and at the same time, I can see data being written to a file “%APPDATA%\Local\Temp\41” or some other number. I am guessing these are related.

The other thing is that if I check in "%APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw\Logs\Camera Raw Log Latest v1.txt" it has the error "*** Error: Failed to validate the tmp file. ***". This appears each time the download happens.

Also, if I close Photoshop mid download, I also see a couple of lines about “feature sets” in the log file:

“*** Error: Failed to validate the tmp file.  ***
Starting termination of cr_sdk...
Number of active model download feature sets to be cancelled: 1
Cancellation of all feature sets completed at Time: 179 ms”

If cancelled between downloads instead it has:

“No active model download feature sets to be cancelled.”

I’ve installed latest video drivers, removed and reinstalled creative suite, and tried temporarily deactivating antivirus, discreet GPU, and GPU acceleration in Camera Raw, but none of this has worked so far.

I wonder if anyone has seen this and might have any clues of how to fix. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Andy.

    Correct answer andrewb60603433

    Thanks for the reply. I have resolved the problem now. I used a VPN to switch to the US and whatever it was trying to download has now worked so it is no longer caught in the loop. I’m guessing Adobe has a corrupt file somewhere in their download network that I was picking up from the UK.

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    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    D FosseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 22, 2026

    Are you using the Camera Raw Filter from inside Photoshop, or the Camera Raw processor, the plugin?

     

    What precisely are you doing, what commands?

     

    Keep in mind that a lot of the newer AI-based tools are optionally "cloud processed", and this may be the default until you disable that. All generative AI is processed on Adobe's servers.

      andrewb60603433
      andrewb60603433Author
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      March 23, 2026

      Thanks for the reply. I’m using the “Camera Raw Filter” from inside photoshop. All I’m doing is open a jpg photo in Photoshop, then open “Camera Raw Filter” from the Filter menu. That is all -no editing, no touching any option in Camera Raw Filter - the downloads in the background just start happening and repeat every minute or two. 

      D Fosse
      Community Expert
      D FosseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 24, 2026

      OK. I’m not seeing any particular internet activity associated with the ACR filter as opposed to anything else. There are brief intermittent spikes even when Windows runs idle and no Photoshop open at all.

       

      There is certainly nothing going on that would ever be so massive as to impact internet bandwidth. Just a few kB here and there.

       

      But generally, there are so many functions that call home nowadays that I think you just have to learn to ignore it. Even the new Adjustments panel in Photoshop calls home to load presets when you access it. And any AI-based function, in ACR or Photoshop, that fully or partially runs on the Adobe servers, will most likely send handshake signals from time to time just to make sure there’s a connection and everything’s ready when called.

       

      Yes, I know, there’s loads of stuff going on that we don’t see and I don’t necessarily like it. Your new car, or your refrigerator, or your coffee grinder, will all send data back and forth to the manufacturer constantly, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Not to mention all the apps on your phone. You need to keep perspective. You may be monitored up and down, but I can assure you the ACR filter is the least of your concerns.

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