Photoshop Bug: Corrupt Files When Saving To Network Volume On Mac OS X 10.5.3

I just came across a serious bug in Photoshop CS3 under Mac OS X 10.5.3 (the newest version as of this post).

Seems saving a file to a networked drive will result in a corrupt file. I found this out the hard way, unfortunately.

Adobe and Apple are aware of this bug, and John Nack over at his Adobe blog is under the impression that this will be fixed in the next Mac OS X update. This seems to imply that the issue is with 10.5, but not necessarily I suppose. Adobe has posted a TechNote on the issue as well.

Personally I almost never save to networked volumes. In this case, I happened to have been working on the MacBook, and had my desktop networked at the time, opening the copy of the file on the network volume as opposed to the local version. In the past I had done this before without issues, and so thought nothing of it.

Anyways, just a quicj heads up to save others from having to deal with problems resulting from this issue.

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