Max file limit conundrum Following this article I've adjusted my open file limits:

$ launchctl limit
    maxfiles    65536          65536          


The trouble with this is that when I try to open Adobe applications I get this error:


  Unable to set maximum number of files to be opened.


I'm not sure how to solve this. I need to increase my file limit but I also need to use Adobe products.
There are a few ways to mitigate the file limit. We ran into the same issue at our company with our platform team and were able to resolve the issue using the information below. Source


Enter the following in Terminal:

$ echo kern.maxfiles=65536 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
$ echo kern.maxfilesperproc=65536 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=65536
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfilesperproc=65536
$ ulimit -n 65536 65536
In $HOME/.bash_profile set the following: ulimit -n 65535 unlimited
Reboot system and try Photoshop again