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Inspiring
October 23, 2015

P: Don't open an annoying Explorer window after "Quick export as PNG"

  • October 23, 2015
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When I use "quick export as PNG", it saves the file, but then opens a file explorer window for some reason. No other save-as/export feature in PS or anything else does this in Windows. Maybe this was implemented by an OSX developer (some applications do this there), but this is really annoying in Windows.

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Legend
November 2, 2016
An Explorer/Finder window will no longer pop open after quick export in CC 2017: http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2016/11/keep-creating-a-guided-tour-through-the-latest-photoshop-updates.html
angelhdz12
Participating Frequently
August 15, 2016
I concur, thanks for the workaround Jaroslav, it's working like a charm, 2 or 3 days straight.
Phew!
Artist666
Known Participant
August 15, 2016
By the way, thanks a lot for this workaround, dear Jaroslav Bereza
Artist666
Known Participant
August 15, 2016
You are right in many points.

I posted that, because i had my own frustrating and long lasting bug posting/fixing experiences.

And i expect from the flagship app and most revenue bringing software, that adobe listens carefully to their costumers requests, complaints and bug postings. And acts fast.

I am not satisfied to pay 60 Euro per Month and have to wait one year for every bug fix, that costs our team and work every day time, nerves and money.

This has to change. 
Inspiring
August 14, 2016
Cristen Gillespie: Your point of view is probably good. I think that Photoshop has to many use cases for many purposes. It is not possible realize every feature requests. And in addition... Photoshop is a bit complex. So I think Photoshop should be more modular and superfriendly for third party developers and plugin makers. You could have only things you need and realize almost every feature request idea.
Inspiring
August 14, 2016
> I am wondering, what prevented adobe in the last 10 months to release a simple code fix like that in the last updates.>

I'll guess a couple things. They're a very big company, so not as inclined to respond quickly to a few requests to change a "feature." It's us saying we don't like the feature, and having enough of us is what gets them to (eventually) maybe move to change it.

Also, they're a very big company (did I say that?<G>) with very big apps. I don't think the individual programmers, or possibly even the individual product managers, get to simply say "write a script and stick it in." It's got to get enough internal approval for whatever they do that actually affects the code. That means a study of responses to a feature, reaching out to find out who likes/dislikes it and why, and doing that takes time, so change is even slower.  They're not going to get that approval just because it only takes someone a day to write it, and many others time to make sure it's not breaking something else, or breaking a lot of workflows that have been established around the "feature."

You know that using Jaroslav's script is at your own risk. But what is "easy" for Jaroslav to do (if anyone could call script-writing easy), isn't so easy for a big company to do. Mavericks usually aren't kept on in big corporations because they're telling all their customers to take the risk without knowing there is a risk.

It could be a preference so it works both ways. Everything could be a preference, and we'd spend 100 hours just filling out our preferences, so even that isn't the simple solution to an issue that I'd like it to be when a feature like this is annoying me.

We may be the squeaky wheel on this issue, but there could be even more squawks if they simply disable the feature. Those people don't have a tendency to complain until what they like gets eliminated. I have no clue why anyone thought this particular feature was a blessing, but some people obviously did, and if we can ignore them, I doubt Adobe can.
Artist666
Known Participant
August 14, 2016
I am wondering, what prevented adobe in the last 10 months to release a simple code fix like that in the last updates.

They should pay their costumers like Jaroslav for doing their job.

Ridiculous.
angelhdz12
Participating Frequently
August 14, 2016
True that. Well it worked, so thanks. No more annoying Window Explorer windows after quick export. Blessings!
Inspiring
August 13, 2016
Sure, it really is. But this is best solution before adobe will fix it. (And it could takes years.) I am thinking about making tweaker for Photoshop. But it's still same... you need to something install after Windows reinstalling.
angelhdz12
Participating Frequently
August 13, 2016
Thanks for this workaround, but for someone like me who changes harddisk drives and refresh/format windows repeatedly, this isn't  practical, having to modify that script everytime I install PS...