Premier Pro CC crashes on Mavericks after relocating user profile

Question

Slowly but surely my OSX environment is being extricated from the absolute lunacy that every file used by any application had to reside on the machine's root drive.  Adobe Premiere Pro, for example, created a $USER/Documents/Adobe subdirectory where it stored my profile information.  I attempted to move that profile information to a network drive and to use an alias to point $USER/Documents/Adobe at $NETWORK_DRIVE/Adobe.  Now Adobe Premiere Pro CC crashes on startup.  I have attempted to trash my preference (deleting the 7.0 subfolder of the Adobe/Premiere Pro folder), but that did not help.  Is it really true that in 2014, 30 years after folks had worked out symlinks and NFS, that Adobe cannot honor these tried and true concepts?

Answer 1

Following up on my own question, I found that creating an Alias in Apple-land isn't nearly as simple nor robust as using a good old-fashioned symlink.  I moved the Adobe alias out of the way, symlinked to the network drive, and BANG!  Everything worked.  Proving yet again that the less one knows about OSX (for example, the existence of the alias feature), probably the better.  Surprising, though, that the Premiere Pro CC app cannot deal with such.