The Wampus Cat

I updated SilverFast (EpsonIT8) to 6.6.1r1 at work this morning. Adobe Photoshop CS3 would not start after the update, quitting when it got to “Scanning for plug-ins.”

A quick review of the Photoshop plug-ins folder revealed the culprit: the SilverFast update had placed a file in the Import/Export folder called “SilverFast (EpsonIT8_CS3).plugin alias” alongside the alias that had been there before, “SilverFast (EpsonIT8).plugin”. Removing this new alias solved the problem. SilverFast works just as it used to from the “Import” submenu in Photoshop.

(This is using Mac OS X 10.5.7, Photoshop CS3 10.0.1 and SilverFast Ai 6.6.0 or something similar updated to 6.6.1r1, on a late model Mac Pro. Not sure if many SilverFast updates do this, or just this one, but I have updated SilverFast before without having this problem.)