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Where is the smart object file saved?

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
December 1, 2019
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I really need to know where my smart object files are saved.

All I could found was a very old thread

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/file-locations-for-saving-smart-object-psb-files/m-p/2310552#M8095

This is not answering my question.

All I need to know is the path, where exactly smart object files are saved.

Please, someone, advise me how to find them step by step!

Thank you in advance.

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ScopusSteve

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Maybe a little too late for a reply, but maybe for someone else in the future. It seems to save them in a temp folder. If you open the smart object, then click Save As... it will show you the location. It's a bit of a rabbit hole. I'd prefer it updated the original file in its original location, or just made a copy in the original location? But yeah.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@ScopusSteve

That's what linked SO are, they are the original.

Embedded SO are as the name suggests are a copy stored within the doc, they are only temporarily opened and saved to the unique temp folder path when edited in that session. Quitting and restarting Photoshop and editing the SO again would reveal a new path that would be deleted after Photoshop was exited.

Earth Oliver

Legend

SO's are always cached to the startup drive and there's no way to change this location. I've had a feature request in for years to change the cache to the scratch drive, but no progress has been made. I think this is so absolutely necessary for those of us working on larger images, but Adobe doesn't seem to understand the necessity.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Yes, I agree with that. Smart objects can by nature be huge, and what happens if the system TEMP directory doesn't have enough space to hold it?

To be clear, that's a different problem than the one at hand. Here the parent application (Ai) won't open at all.

D Fosse

Community Expert

If it's an embedded smart object, it's, well, embedded in the master file. Or anywhere else if it's a linked smart object.

When you open the smart object to edit it, it's temporarily stored in the system TEMP directory.

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Biswajit5DE8

Participant

It was going right for me, the smart object files which i used to open for editing and save them.. they are not saved in TEMP folder in PC. They used to save in my defult folder from where i have opened my image and made it as smart object in a PSD file. And when i used to save them they would reflect in its original folder and after closing the smart object they would reflect on my psd file to. But from some days it's saves my smart object files in TEMP folder in pc....

Hoow can i solve this problem...???

Any solution for this ??

Please help

davescm

Community Expert

What's not to understand? Sometimes double-clicking the layer doesn't open the embedded file. When PSD is broken, how do we extract the embedded smart object to save the work?

"When PSD is broken, how do we extract the embedded smart object to save the work?"

An embedded smart object is stored within the PSD file. If the PSD file is broken then you cannot look elsewhere for it. You could try a third party PSD repair utility but many just recover a single flattened layer from th file rather than the actual layers.

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teachbit

Participating Frequently

Here an explanation about where smart objects are saved: https://youtu.be/9xU7GBAJ_tE

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