3 Replies Latest reply: Oct 15, 2014 4:55 PM by Ben Bishop RSS

    Reflow installation creating strange ps1, ps2, ps3, ps4 folders on the root dir of my secondary drive.

    Diab64 Community Member
    Diab64 Jul 21, 2014 9:37 PM

      Some background info:

      Win7 Pro, x64

       

      I just got Adobe CC and did an install of a lot of the software on my C: system drive, which is a small SSD. The D: drive is a separate physical HDD. I then created symlinks for a lot of the software (besides PS, Illustrator, InDesign, and the smaller ones like all the "Edge" software) and moved those to my D: storage drive. Once again, to clarify, Edge Reflow and Photoshop are both still on the C: system drive where Adobe CC installed them originally.

       

      After I installed Reflow, three folders got created on my D: drive, named: ps1, ps2, and ps3. Their folder structures are almost, if not completely, identical to each other:

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      A quick system-wide search of "reflow.generate" also identified another identical folder sitting inside my Photoshop CC directory at:

      C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Plug-ins\Generator\reflow.generate

      This folder has the same file/subfolder structure as the above.

       

      I am wondering what the ps1, ps2, ps3 folders are and what they are doing sitting in my root D: drive directory. I tried uninstalling Reflow, after which those folders disappeared. I then reinstalled Reflow and they appeared again as p1, p2, and p4 (instead of p3). The other folder, within the Photoshop plugins folder, is back again also, as can be seen here:

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      I understand that these folders are part of the Adobe Photoshop / Edge Reflow generator plugin that I have watched a video of. What I do not understand is why I am getting these extra "ps" folders on my other drive. The only other thing I can think of that might help is that I have Photoshop's scratch disk set to the D: drive. Edge Reflow has not been ran at all since its own installation, however.

       

      Are those "ps" folders safe to delete?

       

       

      Thank you.

        • 1. Re: Reflow installation creating strange ps1, ps2, ps3, ps4 folders on the root dir of my secondary drive.
          Chris Bank - ReflowDev Adobe Employee
          Chris Bank - ReflowDev Jul 29, 2014 4:40 PM (in response to Diab64)

          I'm not exactly sure why you go PS1-PS4. The folders in there are supposed to get installed into Photoshop for our Photoshop integration. It could be the installer got confused about where PS was installed.

           

          It's safe to delete those files. If you want to use Reflow and Photoshop you make have to run the installer again to see if those files will get installed to the correct place if they weren't already.

           

          Hope that helps and thanks for using Reflow!

          Chris

          • 2. Re: Re: Reflow installation creating strange ps1, ps2, ps3, ps4 folders on the root dir of my secondary drive.
            Ben Bishop Community Member
            Ben Bishop Aug 21, 2014 5:32 AM (in response to Chris Bank - ReflowDev)

            Hey Chris,

            I just installed Edge Reflow Preview (CC), and I already had Photoshop CC 2014 installed, on Windows 7.

             

            Reflow installed to:

            C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Edge Reflow CC Preview

             

            The plugin installed itself correctly to:

            C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Plug-ins\Generator\reflow.generate

             

            And the installer also created:

            D:\ps1\Generator\reflow.generate

            D:\ps2\Generator\reflow.generate

            D:\ps4\Generator\reflow.generate

             

            Looking at the installer log in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\Edge Reflow 1.0 08-21-2014.log.gz

            ...

            08/21/14 18:50:44:133 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 2300 | Action start 18:50:44: AppSearch.

            08/21/14 18:50:44:133 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 2300 | Property: PHOTOSHOP_PLUGIN_DIRECTORY, Signature: DirectorySearch1

            08/21/14 18:50:44:133 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 2300 | Property: PHOTOSHOP_PLUGIN_DIRECTORY_32, Signature: DirectorySearch2

            08/21/14 18:50:44:134 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 2300 | Property: CC2014PHOTOSHOP_PLUGIN_DIRECTORY, Signature: CC2014DirectorySearch1

            08/21/14 18:50:44:134 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 2300 | Property: CC2014PHOTOSHOP_PLUGIN_DIRECTORY_32, Signature: CC2014DirectorySearch2

            08/21/14 18:50:44:135 | [INFO] |  | OOBE | DE |  |  |  | 2300 | Action ended 18:50:44: AppSearch. Return value 1.

            ...

             

            Taking a wild guess, I suspect the installer is looking for four Photoshop plugin directories, thus "ps1" - "ps4":

            ps1 = PHOTOSHOP_PLUGIN_DIRECTORY

            ps2 = PHOTOSHOP_PLUGIN_DIRECTORY_32

            ps3 = CC2014PHOTOSHOP_PLUGIN_DIRECTORY

            ps4 = CC2014PHOTOSHOP_PLUGIN_DIRECTORY_32

             

            I only have Photoshop CC 2014 installed, so likely its plug-in directory is "CC2014PHOTOSHOP_PLUGIN_DIRECTORY", and thus there is no "D:\ps3" directory created.

            And if that's the case, the other plugin folders do not exist, so for some strange reason the installer decides to install ps1, ps2 and ps4 to D:\

             

            Again, just a guess.

            • 3. Re: Reflow installation creating strange ps1, ps2, ps3, ps4 folders on the root dir of my secondary drive.
              Ben Bishop Community Member
              Ben Bishop Oct 15, 2014 4:55 PM (in response to Chris Bank - ReflowDev)

              Chris, the latest Reflow update still has this issue. In my case PS1, PS2, and PS4 were recreated. My specs and suspicions remain as per my reply above.