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drgrafix

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Original poster
Feb 9, 2008
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Don't know what I might've done to inflict this on myself, but maybe some tech genius will know how to fix this.

I was using Adobe Photoshop (CS6) in terminal mode because I needed to mess with some files the other day, and when I tried to open the PSD file which was on my desktop, instead of a list I got this "Icon" which appears to be dead. Clicking on it does nothing. Conversely, if I go to Finder, I can see all the desktop files. Don't know if its an OS issue or an Adobe issue, but I had been using the crippled terminal version of Photoshop for a couple of months without _this_ glitch. Anyone have a clue? TIA-Mike

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If you navigate to Macintosh HD/Users/youruser/Desktop do all of your desktop files show up there? If so maybe you can remove the bugged folder from the sidebar and drag the desktop folder over to add it back.
 
good advice above. I'd like to know what you were doing in the Terminal as that can certainly lead to unexpected behaviour if you aren't very clear on what you were doing. "messing with files" is pretty vague!
 
I clicked on Macintosh HD and all I see are:

Applications
Library
System
Users

In Finder, I can see all the Desktop files (aren't that many actually), I was just trying to Open a PSD file from Photoshop where that PSD file (one of two) happened to be on the Desktop. Photoshop CS6 is able to open any PSD file from my USB HDD.

As far as me being in terminal, I may have mis-stated it. What I was doing was running what I call "Crippled Photoshop" which means you go into Applications, click on Photoshop CS6, then in the next column, there's a PS icon with a slash in it. Right click that and then click on Show Package Contents. Click on Contents and you'll see MacOS, click on that and you'll see a Terminal Icon with Adobe Photoshop CS6. Double click that and a terminal type window will open, you'll get two warnings about Framework, and then Photoshop will open in Catalina and run with two (2) caveats that I've seen. You can't open a JPG file, and you can't Save for Web. You can save as a JPG, PDF, or whatever.
 
Just noticed that its the same with trying to access (read/write) a USB stick drive. Its only Adobe, Affinity works fine.
 
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