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

Hi.

Sometimes, randomly, when trying to save a new file, Photoshop can lock up, only allowing me to click on the X button (doesn't close though). The application stops responding but it doesn't become "Unresponsive" according to Windows, it's just the save window never comes up. Please note I don't save to cloud, as I don't like it, so my Default File Location is "On your computer". Whenever this happens I have to kill Photoshop with the Task Manager.

This is a fresh install of Windows and a fresh install of Creative Cloud, so I don't see why this is happening.

This started happening a few updates ago, and it's becoming increasingly annoying.

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Just switched to a Mac Studio, M1 Max 64GB RAM latest OS latest Photshop and this problem is happening for me too. Never happened with my iMac, now it is drastically slowing me down on my first day with this new machine.

Same problem: brand new Macbook 2021 M1 Max, updated OS, updated Photoshop (completely vanilla, no settings changes, no plugins), no external monitors, using built-in display, full keyboard access disabled (as default), etc. Confirmation dialog boxes randomly showing up behind the main Photoshop window, making it inaccessible.

Adobe Photoshop Version: 23.4.2 20220711.r.603 aa147b3  arm64
Number of Launches: 1
Operating System: Mac OS 12.4.0
System architecture: Apple M1 Max, HybridCPU(8:2)

I've been using Pixelmator as an alternative. Wow. Unless you're doing photo retouching, it's much simpler and quicker to do graphics work. Highly recommended.

I'm also waiting for this to be resolved. My team often sit with clients in an edit suite situation and when this happens it's just plain embarassing.

I am having this issue also. Did anyone manage to resolve it?

I just wanted to add my complain here too...its beyound reasonable and ive been waiting for a few months for this to be solved. I see nothing...i am desparate, i payed a ton of £££££ on this top of the line Apple laptop + another £££ for Adobe yearly... what the heck guys?! just fix this bug, theres so many of us having this issue! 

I'll have two documents open.  My main document and a document that I made into a new window to drag a layer into the main document.   Usually, I make somekind of alteration to the document I sourced from.  When I try to close that document, I should see a save/don't save warning box.  

However, not only does the save/don't save box not appear, the entire app freezes and I have to force quit.  

I assumed that the warning box got stacked beneath the documents but that doesn't seem to be the case.   Still, photoshop prevents me from interacting with the app until the seemingly hidden warning box is answered.

My OS is MacOS Monterey and the version of PS I'm using is 23.4.1

I'm experiencing the same issue. After a clean Photoshop startup it works like you'd expect for some random period of time, but then after a while the popups stop appearing and I have to either hit 'Enter' or 'Esc' to get out of it, after which a tiny blip of the popup appears and then goes away. Very frustrating since I do a lot of work in Photoshop and having to work around this wastes a lot of precious time. 

M1 Max Macbook Pro  - Monterey 12.4
Photoshop 23.4.1

This has been occurring since day 1 of installing it on my Macbooks (Happens on my M1 Macbook Air as well)

I'm having the same issue on my Mac Studio M1 Max. I even have some images open up hidden when I open them through Bridge. I can control + tab between images so I know the image is open. I can see it's layers in the layer palette but I can't see the image anywhere. I have to close the image and use the option + click on the PS icon in order to see the save dialog box.