diff --git a/plugins/ps/.gitignore b/plugins/ps/.gitignore
index 3922c71ac..528524b69 100644
--- a/plugins/ps/.gitignore
+++ b/plugins/ps/.gitignore
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@
 /pre-*
 /procfile-*
 /app-restart
+/core-post-deploy
diff --git a/plugins/ps/subcommands.go b/plugins/ps/subcommands.go
index 16835c90f..9c675f872 100644
--- a/plugins/ps/subcommands.go
+++ b/plugins/ps/subcommands.go
@@ -121,21 +121,6 @@ func CommandScale(appName string, skipDeploy bool, processTuples []string) error
 	}
 
 	procfilePath := getProcfilePath(appName)
-	if !common.FileExists(procfilePath) {
-		extract := func() error {
-			image, err := common.GetDeployingAppImageName(appName, "", "")
-			if err != nil {
-				return nil
-			}
-
-			return extractProcfile(appName, image)
-		}
-
-		if err := common.SuppressOutput(extract); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-
 	if !hasScaleFile(appName) || common.FileExists(procfilePath) {
 		update := func() error {
 			return updateScalefile(appName, make(map[string]int))