Adobe Photoshop

Where Adobe Photoshop keeps its logs

Adobe Photoshop logs to ~/Library/Logs/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop <version>/ on macOS.

Paths are printed exactly as Adobe Photoshop writes them. Environment variables like %LOCALAPPDATA% and $XDG_STATE_HOME are never expanded, so a path can be pasted straight into a shell. Where a path differs between installer types or shipping flavours, each one is racked as its own card below - why that happens.

Finding your way around macOS.

How to turn on debug logging for Adobe Photoshop

1. Make sure you run Photoshop 25.2 or later, which has the Event Logger.
2. macOS: Open the Settings folder ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop <version> Settings/.
3. Windows: Open the Settings folder %APPDATA%\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop <version>\Adobe Photoshop <version> Settings\.
4. Create PSUserConfig.txt in that folder containing TraceKeyAndMouseEvents 1.
5. Create pslogSettings.txt in that folder containing LogKeyAndMouseEvents=1.
6. Choose Help > Start Logging Events, reproduce the problem, then choose Help > Stop Logging Events.
7. Windows: Find the logs in %APPDATA%\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop <version>\Logs\.
8. macOS: Find the logs in ~/Library/Logs/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop <version>/.

How to collect Adobe Photoshop logs

1. When Photoshop crashes, send the report from the Adobe Crash Reporter dialog.
2. Windows: If the dialog no longer appears, run REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\CommonFiles\CRLog /v "Never Ask" /t REG_SZ /d 0.
3. macOS: If the dialog no longer appears, choose Show Package Contents on Photoshop, open Contents > Frameworks > AdobeCrashReporter.framework > Adobe Crash Reporter and select Always Show This Dialog.
4. macOS: For a hang, capture a Process Sample or a Spindump.
5. macOS: Include the program error log PSErrorLog.txt from ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop <version> Settings/.