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January 19, 2012
Question

The disk copy was changed since you last opened it.

  • January 19, 2012
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..... Do you want to save it anyway?

I'm starting to get this message again a lot. It went away for awhile, and is now back.

It started with CS5.

I think Adobe blames it on other software but cannot pinpoint it?

Can anyone fill me in?

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    7 replies

    Participant
    July 4, 2012

    Wow, this is very very anoying indeed!

    I think Adobe should do something about it even if it has somehing to do with the system or what have you.

    Adobe Please! Get this fixed as soon as possible!

    Hensen

    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    July 4, 2012

    Hans Timman wrote:

    Adobe Please! Get this fixed as soon as possible!

    Not that I have seen this problem, being on a PC, but I feel for the Mac users... 

    Wouldn't a little [  ] Don't Show Again checkbox be an awfully nice thing to have in the warning message for those folks whose systems are habitually touching their image files?

    -Noel

    Participating Frequently
    July 5, 2012

    'don't show again' for every message would be great.  It used to come up for 'less than 50% of pixels have been selected'  - now I'm haunted by that message and 'your history brush will not work ...etc.'  - drives me nuts.

    Min E
    Known Participant
    April 27, 2012

    and we wonder why they cant get along in the middle east...

    Participant
    February 8, 2012

    I had the same problem then took advice of one of the posters and quit extensis suitcase processes in the activity viewer and that solved it.  (I downloaded a trial version of Suitcase Fusion a few days ago)

    Participating Frequently
    February 8, 2012

    I'm a little confused. Did your problem start after you loaded Suitcase Fusion, or are you attributing Suitcase Fusion with solving the problem?

    Chris Cox
    Legend
    February 8, 2012

    Removing Suitcase Fusion solved the problem.

    The problem was caused by Suitcase Fusion modifying the files.

    PECourtejoie
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 25, 2012

    Kevin, what is your os version? You could give the beginning of help>system info. (do not but the serial)

    Could you give a list of the running applications? (this might be the critical part, somehow your system has something that triggers that issue, most other posters don't.)

    Did you try to run only Photoshop? Off the network?

    If other posters reported the same issue on other forums, invite them to post in this very thread (it is the only one with an Adobe Engineer in there), and have them list their system info, and programs. Until a pattern, or common denominator is found, there would be no way to fix the problem.

    Does it occur if files are stored on an internal disk?

    Did you try to replace the cable that connects the external disk? (checking the physical layer is step one in basic troubleshooting)

    Thanks for helping us help you.

    January 25, 2012

    thanks PE, I'm on 12.0, images are on external hard drives.  Running apps are office and 10 others. If Chris or another engineer wants to PM for into, thats' cool, I'll answer detailed questions, but really, the issue is not even predicatble, it's intermittant.

    January 25, 2012

    Is "12.0" a Lion, or a Snow Leopard, or a Precise Pangolin, or a dumb Raccoon?

    Participating Frequently
    January 25, 2012

    I am also getting this error with Photoshop 5.5 and OS Lion. Yesterday the Finder crashed and when I rebooted and opened Photoshop, every Photoshop file I had worked on that afternoon was corrupt - nothing else was affected. Desktop preview icons looked fine but when I opened them they were just odd colors and all layers were gone. The jpgs I had saved from psd were also corrupt. Don't know if this has anything to do with the error message. Adobe blames Apple and Apple blames Adobe.

    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    January 20, 2012

    You seem to be concentrating on the effect of the error checking...  The implication above is that something the system is doing is (unexpectedly) touching the file.  Wouldn't it be best to understand what that is all about and correct it, anticipate it, or configure around it?

    Is this happening on all Mac systems?

    -Noel

    January 20, 2012

    Neil, that's for me? don't understand. The error comes on only with one app. PHotoshop. It comes up after you save a file. That's it. It's a total nuisance. I click command S to save. and then the message comes up.

    It's not even an error message. It's saying something in the file has changed -- of course, I'm working on the file. I decide it's time to do a save. And it's asking if I want to save, something has changed.

    One of the all time nuisances of a major software.  I'm going to live with it as T says.  If you know more what this is about let me know. I'd love to get rid of it.

    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    January 20, 2012

    It was kind of addressed to Chris...  All I'm saying is that there's an implication here that something is systemically touching (or possibly altering) files while you are editing them, and that's most certainly not something that should be tolerated or ignored.

    Either it's the normal way a Mac system works (which I don't know but I doubt) or something you specifically have running on your system is causing it, which you should understand and possibly change.  If the former (normal operation), then Adobe needs to change the way Photoshop works, because the error message is bogus.

    -Noel

    Chris Cox
    Legend
    January 19, 2012

    See the previous discussions. Yes, it is caused by something outside of Photoshop.

    January 19, 2012

    Thanks Chris. Can you reveal/distilll on this new simplified thread what I need to due to eliminate it?

    (I went through the morass of threads and could not decipher it)

    Tai_Lao
    Inspiring
    January 19, 2012

    You can't eliminate it.  You just live with it.

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    Wo Tai Lao Le

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