P: Saving copy not saving over jpg file

This is super annoying and time-consuming.  If Adobe cares about their customers working more efficiently, they need to fix this.  That is...  IF.

It definitely hasn't always been this way and it is causing me no end of issues. I create personalised artwork for customers. They often request edits which involves me saving over the original jpeg. Ive been working this way for 5 years and since the new update I now have to manually go in to my folder, delete the original and then rename the file with the copy extension. So frustrating and a waste of my time.

Well... IT'S ABOUT TIME.

Thank you for sharing this, maybe there is light at the end of this godforesaken tunnel after all.

You are right not sure why it worked the first time, issue is still there...

Any update on this, I'm seeing comments form 9 months ago having issues. I'm still having this problem trying to export a png. Brings up prompt to save over the file, but then just makes a second file with copy at the end of it. Really frustrating workflow. 

Found this today addressing Photoshop and macOS Catalina (10.15) compatibility
at least they are actually acknowledging theres an issue now... still waiting for a fix adobe...

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-and-macos-catalina.html

Cannot overwrite an existing file when saving with the same filename

Photoshop saves a copy instead of overwriting an existing file with the same name.

Workarounds

• Manually rename the saved file and remove 'copy' from the file name.
• Save the file to a different location.

Note: We are working with Apple to address this issue.

Well, here's something. If you now have a new file named what the previous version was with "copy" added to it, overwriting that file actually works and doesn't add another "copy" to the name. So if you don't mind having all the files you want to overwrite have the tag Copy, it works as it should. I'm updating files for a 3D modeling project and am constantly changing the texture layers, so I'm just going to make friends with the "copy" suffix until Adobe actually fixes it or I move to Affinity Photo.

I just updated Photoshop after having to retrieve the previous version from time machine as Photoshop wasn't updating layers and when it wasn't polluting my files, it was changing the colors in random ways. This time, I'm getting that <name+copy>.tiff. My workaround is the same as the previous one, Time Machine < Photoshop 2019 < Restore. I have to say that these recent experiences are making me seriously consider dumping my subscription altogether. Affinity Photo and Designer look far superior and as soon as someone comes up with a more robust, 21st version of After Effects, That's what I'm going to do.

just updated to 21.2.1 - still having this issue..

Yep. It's July 2020 and I'm STILL having this problem. Seriously what gives. It's a real impediment to my workflow.