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August 19, 2020
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Fixed: Photoshop creating a debug.log file when you open a PSD File

  • August 19, 2020
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I just updated my photoshop to the latest version, 21.2.2.289, and I noticed that everytime I open a PSD file. Photoshop creates a debug.log file in the same folder as the PSD file. How do I turn this off?

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Correct answer Pete.Green

Good news! Tonight's 21.2.4 update should fix the issue with new debug.log file creation. 
Look for the Photoshop update in the Updates section of the Creative Cloud desktop. For help, see Update Creative Cloud apps

Let us know if the update fixes it for you as well!

Regards,

Pete

66 replies

Inspiring
September 22, 2020

Why is this marked Solved when it's still happening a month later?

Participating Frequently
September 18, 2020

I feel very angry with Adobe. I was always a fan, today I look for alternatives because the amount of bugs in all applications is unusual. Each coreation generates more new bugs and it never ends. Things like changing the color of a text to white when you drag it to another document. In the past few years, only beast updates have been made that do not help at all. Worse, they ended up with legal resources such as the synchronization of measurements from all fields with the ruler. In other words, they should call the old engineers again and fire this new generation.

Participant
September 20, 2020

Adobe, this is under all criticism and the question is how you want to compensate your customers.

phill104
Participant
September 20, 2020

Really? You want compensation for a minor bug?

I agree, this particular one has taken a long time to fix. However, I would rather it take a long time than a half baked fix that causes something more serious.

Participant
September 16, 2020

Why is this posted as 'correct answer' when there isn't even an answer in the post?! just an apology??

 

The debug files are really annoying me as well as all the other million issues I am having with my creative cloud programs....

Participant
September 15, 2020

Would love to ignore but essentially makes CC an expensive brick:

"[0915/102158.808:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 842
[0915/102158.830:WARNING:angle_platform_impl.cc(52)] compileToBinary(230):
C:\fakepath(69,8-58): warning X3571: pow(f, e) will not work for negative f, use abs(f) or conditionally handle negative values if you expect them"

Participating Frequently
September 12, 2020

How long should we expect this problem to continue?  You guys have known about this issue for weeks.
Also, Creative Cloud creates NUMEROUS files in our Temp directories every time we fire it up, and it doesn't delete them on exit.  We have to delete them manually.

Pete.Green
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 11, 2020

Hi everyone,

 

Really sorry about the the debug.log files that are being created when Photoshop is starting.

We've been able to reproduce this and the engineering team is currently investigating a fix.

The debug.log files are safe to ignore or delete.

 

Regards,

Pete

Known Participant
September 12, 2020

Just for your info, the content of my recent debug.log

[0912/104709.895:WARNING:angle_platform_impl.cc(52)] compileToBinary(230): 
C:\fakepath(57,8-58): warning X3571: pow(f, e) will not work for negative f, use abs(f) or conditionally handle negative values if you expect them
C:\fakepath(65,8-28): warning X3571: pow(f, e) will not work for negative f, use abs(f) or conditionally handle negative values if you expect them

[0912/104737.589:INFO:CONSOLE(1)] "Long rAF frame-time", source: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Adobe/Adobe%20Photoshop%202020/Required/www-rich-tooltips/build/external.js (1)
[0912/104737.684:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 1612
[0912/104737.684:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 842
[0912/104737.705:WARNING:angle_platform_impl.cc(52)] compileToBinary(230): 
C:\fakepath(69,8-58): warning X3571: pow(f, e) will not work for negative f, use abs(f) or conditionally handle negative values if you expect them
C:\fakepath(77,8-28): warning X3571: pow(f, e) will not work for negative f, use abs(f) or conditionally handle negative values if you expect them

[0912/104848.864:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 1612
[0912/104848.864:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 842
[0912/105158.830:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 1612
[0912/105158.831:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 842
[0912/105236.308:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 1612
[0912/105236.308:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 842
[0912/105344.237:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 1612
[0912/105344.237:ERROR:mf_helpers.cc(14)] Error in dxva_video_decode_accelerator_win.cc on line 842
Participant
September 11, 2020

Same problem here, almost a month and anything done by Adobe

Inspiring
February 9, 2023

I am using PS 24.1.1 and just within the last couple of weeks, the .log file has been created.

It seems that no one has an answer for the issue.

Participant
September 11, 2020

Same here. Any of you using Capture One to save PSDs?

Participant
June 5, 2021

yes I did use mod game relate and it working fine now the issue resolved.

Known Participant
September 10, 2020

Same here.

Matina Matina
Participant
September 10, 2020

Same problem. When I export an image from photoshop an empty 'debug.log' text file appears.