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sskaz
Inspiring
April 23, 2026

Keyboard shortcut for “Don’t Save” in the Save Changes dialog no longer works

  • April 23, 2026
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Issue: Keyboard shortcut for “Don’t Save” in the Save Changes dialog no longer works.
Steps to reproduce:

  1. Make a new empty project, make a new comp, close the project to the trigger the Save Changes dialog.
  2. Press command-D to trigger “Don’t Save”.

Expected result: Don’t Save should be triggered and the dialog goes away.
Actual result:

  1. Nothing happens in the save dialog.
  2. In the menubar, the Edit menu highlights because it probably thinks I’m triggering the keyboard shortcut for Edit > Duplicate.

Adobe After Effects version: 26.2.0, 26.2.1, 26.3.0b53
Operating system: MacOS 15.7.5

 

The shortcut works in AE 25.6.5. Escape (Cancel) and return/numpad-enter (Save) both work correctly.

While the dialog is open, opening menus shows that many menu commands are correctly disabled, but many are still actionable and their keyboard shortcuts are still trigger-able—even if none of them do anything other than quickly highlight the menu.

    2 replies

    JohnColombo17100380
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 6, 2026

    Hi ​@sskaz,

    There is a few for this issue in the latest Beta builds of After Effects and Premiere. If you have a chance to install those, please let us know if the keyboard shortcuts in dialogs are still not working for you.

    Cheers,

    - John, After Effects Engineering Team 

    sskaz
    sskazAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 7, 2026

    It’s working again in v26.3.0b68 for me. I only noticed it in AE, but glad it’s fixed in Premiere as well. Thanks!

    JohnColombo17100380
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    April 27, 2026

    Thank you for reporting this issue, ​@sskaz. We are also able to reproduce it as well and investigation into a fix is underway.

    Thanks again,

    • John, After Effects Engineering Team