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August 25, 2025 at 12:55 am #7040394
Damon Bell
Keymaster

    This has nothing to do with the Pixnub license. I never put any restrictions in for what folder it can access.

    You are probably running into Adobe’s plugin API folder/file security.   Adobe implemented very strict security for plugins which requires the user to “opt in” to allow the plugin to access the file.  They were afraid plugin developers would do bad things and access users files or something without users permission.

    The “opt in” is the folder selection window where you select the folder.  That tells Photoshop that the user is OK with the plugin accessing that folder. When you select the folder, Photoshop creates a “token” that allows the plugin to access that folder or file. So what is probably happening is either Mac is blocking Adobe from creating the security token, or Adobe won’t create the token across the network. Without the token, Photoshop won’t let the plugin open the files.

    I’m 99% sure that is what is going on.  However, I’m just not sure how to fix it. You can first try to set the folder on your mac to read/write for all accounts, including the “everyone” account. So right click on that folder and go to file info. Then make all of the users have read/write access., including any system users and/or the everyone user. After doing that, reselect the folder from the plugin so it can try to create the token again.

    If that doesn’t work then I’m not sure how to make it work.  Adobe implemented these restrictions, which I think are too strict personally, but it is what it is. I’ve asked Adobe for more details about this and so have other developers.  However, it’s difficult to get straight forward answers.

    So the bottom line is if settings the permissions doesn’t work then you’ll likely have to use a local drive, or maybe an NAS.  With NAS some users have it working, some don’t… and again, I really don’t know why some NAS work and some don’t. I have no real insight into how the Adobe plugins API determines what is allowed and what isn’t.