Smart Objects not too Smart

Created a graphic in Ai CS6, dropped into Ps CS6 as a Smart Object, but when I want to edit the Smart Object from Ps CS6 it wants to open it in Ai CS5. What is happening to the smartness of the Smart Object? Any help is appreciated. Thx

Thanks for the help ^ emil emil. I uninstalled CS5, and received a message saying the was no no program associated with the file. Looked at my preferences in Ai, nothing to changed. So it dawned on me that you were talking about the program preferences in Windows 7. Ah Ha!!! No program associated with the .ai files. Re-associated them with Ai CS6 and everything works great, including the Smart Obects. Wondering about other file associations with Dw, Fl, Id, Fw that I will run into. Thanks again.

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Running Snow Leopard on Mac
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Many, many Photoshop layers and groups
Illustrator vector files copy+pasted from several different files (affects the naming convention perhaps?)
Some groups/layers in Photoshop are duplicates
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Running the most updated software / OS (that is until CS5 comes out)
Smart Objects showed no error until I had actually opened, edited, and saved the referenced temp file (i.e. VectorSmartObject1.ai)
Files saved and worked on from Dropbox (network folder)
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Have you tested this with Photoshop CS5 and Illustrator CS5? (the current versions, that came out last month)
If you duplicated a smart object layer, both layers refer back to the same file content. So when you change the file, both layers would be updated. That is intentional and explained in your manual. If you didn't realize this, that could explain what you are seeing.
If you placed separate files, then they should not be updated at the same time, because they will refer to separate files.
Yes, Smart Objects only update when you save the file.
You would need over 4 billion smart objects in one document to get Photoshop confused about which one refers to which file. And since the layer limit is much less than 4 billion, I doubt that is the cause.
There is no naming convention involved. We don't limit the filenames (except to platform standards and to include a file type extension).

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Yes I am apply layers to a JPEG. So it's solved by flattening the image and saving, but this mean I lose my fiter and masking layers.
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hi, i'm currently stuck with and issue that's ruining my workflow and slowing me down.
the basic job is to photograph lamps and replace the background. (see hallmarklighting.com)
i usually do so by editing the original photo and cut it out with the pen tool, ending up with several layers of adjustments and whatnot. i take those layers and insert them into a smart object of a template file i made for the background, from there it's just a matter of saving the various output files (print/web/psd).
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Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.0.4 (12.0.4x20110407 [20110407.r.1265 2011/04/07:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch]) x64
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Physical processor count: 4
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 2800 MHz
Built-in memory: 10240 MB
Free memory: 7966 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 9299 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 90 %
Image tile size: 128K
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Glad to see some interest. Thanks!
I've had it on both my old system and my new one, the old was a Dual 2.5 G5, the new one is a Dual 2.8 Quad. Both machines are kept fully up to date. The new ones system was created by updating off of the old one.
PS 10.0.1.
It's happened with both files from illustrator and from files created within photoshop - both those created by 'convert to smart object' and 'convert to smart filters'.
I can't remember if I've ever seen the error on either my laptop (macBook) or the mac I use at work (Quad 2.7 G5), if it happens on either I'll mention it here.
Some things about my system that might be part of the cause:
I have four external drives, three firewire, one USB.
I have four internal drives.
I use a wacom.
I'm always connected to a network of at least one other mac (g4 733), two if my laptop is on.
I also get the error where I can't save the file (disk not available?), and have to save out to a different drive, and then restart Photoshop.
I use spaces and sometimes get the flashing cursor error, and have to restart photoshop.
That's all I can think of.
Thanks for the interest.

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Bart Cross wrote:
Smart objects are not really that smart after all. Yes PS uses a version of the original object, not the object itself.
Furthermore, I would add they they aren't even OBJECTS!
The very concept of an object is that changing it would affect all instances of that object, no matter where it is included, intended to save development time on complex projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_(computer_science)

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