Illustrator saves blank PDFs with information about missing content

I use Illustrator CS6 on OS X 10.8. Yesterday I noticed that my PDFs come out as blank files with the text
This is an Adobe® Illustrator® File that was saved without PDF Content.
To Place or open this file in other applications, it should be re-saved from Adobe Illustrator with the "Create PDF Compatible File" option turned on. This option is in the Illustrator Native Format Options dialog box, which appears when saving an Adobe Illustrator file using the Save As command.
which is actually a description that typically appears in AI files saved without PDF compatibility. It's not document-wise but rather application-wise issue because it happens even if I create a new Document, draw something in the middle of the canvas and save it. Also, all of my existing documents which used to save well before, do that now. Basically, I cannot save correctly a single PDF. But it seems that the exported documents must contain the data because they have different sizes based on the content.
There's no problem with saving in AI format. I hope that's enough information necessary for someone smart to diagnose this problem because I start to be desperate
Do you have any idea? Thank you.

Oh, my friend just recommended me to erase cache and it worked! :-) I erased folders ~/Library/Caches/com.adobe.Illustrator and ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.adobe.Illustrator.savedState and one of them did the trick :-)

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