CS5 bug? File is deleted when attempting to open!

[kpt]

I don't know if there's a specific thread for this but I just bought CS5 and tried some scripts.
One of them failed in a rather bizarre way: when attempting to open a .psd-file, an exception is thrown and the file is removed!

I'm still investigating, but was wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior?

Code: Select allvar doc = app.activeDocument;
Folder.current = new Folder("/Users/kjellpost/PBD/Overlays/");
var psdRef = new File().openDlg("Pick an overlay", "PSD:*.psd");
alert("psdRef = "  + psdRef);
alert("typeof psdRef = " + (typeof psdRef)); /* object */
if (psdRef == null) {
   alert("psdRef = null");
} else {
  var template;
  try {
    template = app.open(psdRef);
  } catch (e) {
    alert("Hm, could not open " + psdRef + ", " + e);
  }
}


These messages are shown during execution:



The attempt to open the file leads to an exception and the removal of the file curlphoto-V.psd!

Has anyone seen this? Who at Adobe should I contact?

[Mike Hale]

I have not seen that using CS5 on WinXP. Does it happen with any file or just that one example? I just tested your code here using a file on my system and it opened the file as expected.

But to answer your question you can report bugs at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/in ... e=wishform ... e=wishform. Note that Adobe will want to reproduce the bug so give as much detail as you can. Photoshop version ie Photoshop Extended 32bit, the OS and computer info - ram, chipset, etc. I would run the following code in ESTK with Photoshop as the target
Code: Select all$.writeln(app.systemInformation)
And include the results of the Javascript console in your report.

[kpt]

Hi Mike,

I can delete any .psd-file with this script. I'm running CS5 on a Mac OS X and have tried both in 32- and 64-bit mode. I've also reduced the script to the following:

Code: Select allvar psdRef = new File().openDlg("Pick a file", "PSD:*.psd");
alert("psdRef = "  + psdRef);
try {
    var template = app.open(psdRef);
  } catch (e) {
    alert("Hm, could not open " + psdRef + ", " + e);
  }

Thanks for the link, I'll try to post the bug there later but would like to test it on another Mac computer first.

[Mike Hale]

Sorry I don't yet have CS5 for Mac yet so I can't text on that platform.

[kpt]

No problem Mike, just tested it on my laptop with the same result.

Edit: just submitted the bug report.

[Mike Hale]

Just as a test you might want to run one of the Adobe scripts like Image Processor on a folder of test images to see if it also deletes. I know that there didn't seem to be that many script users on the beta program but I can't imagine that a but that causes data loss wasn't noticed.

[kpt]

Image Processor seems to run fine.

I wonder if there's something wrong with openDlg()? If I create a File object myself, rather than using openDlg, the script works.

[kpt]

There seems to be a problem with the construct new File().openDlg(...);

This code does not currently work on my Mac CS5:
Code: Select allFolder.current = new Folder("/a/b/c");
var fileref = new File().openDlg(...);

However, this seems to do the same thing:
Code: Select allvar fileref = new File("/a/b/c").openDlg(...);

And it also works on CS4 so I will use this for future code.

[Mike Hale]

I have never used new File().openDlg(). I normally do some variation of this
Code: Select allvar myFolder = Folder.current = new Folder("~/Desktop");
var fileref = myFolder.openDlg('...');