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Following on from the previous post, German server software company Helios is reporting they’ve discovered a serious bug in the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update whereby “Images saved from Photoshop CS3 can get corrupted visually (stripes or
similar in the image) or even structurally so that they cannot be opened again in Photoshop or another application”.
They say this occurs with Apple based AFP servers (i.e. Apple filesharing over ethernet) as well as with their own sharing software.
The changelog for the OS X update mentions it “Improves Spotlight searches on a AFP file server volumes” and I wonder if the two are related.

UPDATE: Macworld has more info on this particular problem which seems to affect images that are saved directly to network volumes. This seems to be part of a more long-running problem between Adobe and Apple and not related to the Spotlight update I mentioned above.

UPDATE 2: Senior Product Manager of Adobe Photoshop John Nack writes in his blog that he’s been receiving a lot of inquiries about “problems saving files from Photoshop directly to network drives when using the recently released Mac OS 10.5.3″. He goes on to say Adobe is “working closely with Apple to troubleshoot the issue and have identified the cause. Apple is working on a fix, and we expect they’ll release it in the next System Update.” Advice then is until this is fixed, do not save directly to network drives – save it locally then transfer the file.

UPDATE 01/07/08: Apple now claims to have fixed this problem in the 10.5.4 update release today