P: Dialog boxes / error messages pop up invisibly - macOS

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THIS WORKS!!!!!!!!!!

Upon opening or saving a photoshop file, the explorer dialog box will not be shown on screen. The app dings at me if I click anywhere on the program, indicating that a dialog box has focus and should be dealt with; however, there is no dialog box.  I've tried doing ALT + TAB to look for othe windows open, but Windows doesn't show any other open window that could be the focus for the file explorer requests in Photoshop.

THIS IS RANDOM. Sometimes I can lauch Photoshop and never have the problem - if the first file is able to be opened and saved, then there never seems to be an issue with subsequent files within the same session of Photoshop. Each opening of Photoshop brings different results, with or without the computer being rebooted. I wish it was reproducable so that I would know when it is happening. I have lost many designs by this issue not allowing me to see the file explorer dialog box to save my Photoshop file. This has been happening to me in the 2022 version of Photoshop only and has been present through multiple version updates. It is also happened on more than one computer system (desktop & laptop), so the idea it is isolated to a specific machine seems to not be valid. Please advise.

I'm constantly having running into this annoying problem. My dialog boxes will not show up so it looks like photoshop is frozen. When in reality I waiting need to select something in the dialog box and it won't appear. If I hit the esc key, the missing dialog box will flash for a second but then disappear and photoshop "unfreezes." Nothing fixes it except exiting the application and restarting it. Mid busy season again and I am ready to scream. Five times in one day I have had to do this. Adobe you really need to do better. I never had this problem until this subscription based version started. I hate paying monthly for a service that fails all the time. I have checked the forum. I have checked my computer, my settings in photoshop, done everything suggested by everyone but the problem is on your end. I am not the only one that is having this problem. Fix it.

This problem seems to disappear for a little while with some of the 23.x updates, at least didn't apear that often. But the sad news is that this miserable problem re-appear in the latest 24!!!! 😞 😞 😞

I'm having a similar but much worse problem. And it's been happening for a long time through quite a few versions of photoshop. And I've recently decided what it probably is; it's the dialog box for "could not export the clipboard".

If photoshop sends you away anyway (because you've launched a plug-in or running an action that launches a program), or you click away yourself by clicking on the plug-in app that is launching, then that dialog box goes away but still wants you to click ok. Everything is grayed out and the program is then unusable. You can't save anything or even quit. And of course the action fails and you've lost anything that hasn't been saved.

if you can't fix the root problem then you can still put in a timeout counter or make it so that box doesn't disable everything at least!

also, when you're running actions why does photoshop still insist on popping up in the foreground and covering up other windows that it shouldn't be covering up?

I should add that dialog boxes are also not showing up without the option+click workaround.

I mean thats a minor issuw for the photo not showi g up visible. You can just click F to change the window view and it will show up

The recent does not appear to have fixed this problem. I still have images opening up invisibly. I have to option+click the photoshop icon in the dock in order to get them to become visible.