P: Saving copy not saving over jpg file

Dammit. Was about to update to Big Sur but will now hold off. Thanks for the updates. Let’s hope that Adobe takes this one seriously, since logical and efficient file saving is such a core feature for even the most casual user. 

@mattrock1 OMG! You are so right! I wanted it to be fixed so bad that I forgot it happens when you overwrite the jpg from a PSD🤦🏻‍♀️ 

This makes me so sad and mad ... again!!!

I also fond out that my company has to provide us with a new version of the VPN. We have an archaic one that is not supported.

@Angel_Jackson I installed Big Sur last night, and (unfortunately) the issue persists. Perhaps you tested using a flattened file?

(Also, my VPN works, as well as my Wacom Intuos Pro M tablet)

My Intuos Pro is working fine so far 🙂

One unrelated issue I have found is VPN not working (Global Protect) on my work computer. I am sure I will discover more glitches as I open more apps 🙂

Going to be a while before I’m interested in trusting Big Sur especially  being a Wacom user. 

Well, folks, 

I installed Big Sur today strictly to see if our issue was resolved.

And lo-and-behold... IT's FIXED!!!!!

No more copies! Woohoo!!

Another point to make. Adobe’s wonderful auto recovery feature. So you crashed. Great. Not unexpected. We are talking about Adobe. Regular crashing is still a thing. Relaunch Photoshop, Yay!! Your file is only missing five minutes of progress. Still stinks to be you if you’ve spent the last 5 minutes painstakingly using the pen tool for masking. Now what do you do? It’s a layered Photoshop file. You absolutely cannot save over your original. This bug has made sure of that. Thanks Adobe. Guess you’re gonna have to save as, go to the desktop, select the original, copy the full name, then, put an extra character in your original, Select the recovered file, paste in the other file’s name. Hope there isn’t some extra space in there somewhere, and move the obsolete original to the trash. But don’t empty the trash, just in case. Open the new file. Did it open? Yes. Good! Now you can close the “recovered” file, which will ask if you want to save changes. You nervously click no.

Boy, don’t you feel great now.

After a while, (we have had a year, after all) I discovered a better workaround. Open the original in Photoshop, drag the history of the recovered file into the original file. Of course, Adobe didn’t make it that easy. You can’t drag history from one file to another in tabs the way you can a layer. You have to be able to see both windows fully to be able to drag history from one file to another. Now you can save your original, because it has all the history of your recovered file. This way, there’s no space–copy suffix bug tomfoolery. 

I can't believe that this problem hasn't been fixed for a year long... It's not a minor problem, overwriting an existing file is an everyday task in photoshop! We don't deserve to be using tricks or other software to be able to.. save a file!

STILL NOT FIXED!!

Please stop adding crap that I don't want!!!!

I just want Photoshop to work properly!! PLEASE!!!!!

Terrible this copy/save issue hasn't been resolved in over a year. Updates to Photoshop over this time have removed some basic editing and saving tools with no acknowledgement from Adobe about the removal, or any intention to fix what was not broken despite numerous threads here and other related PS forums. One example: now highlighting the entire file name with extension in the save panel instead of just the file name (older behavior). These seemingly mindless or careless changes ruin work flow. Why can't/won't Adobe fix these things? 🙎