P: Saving copy not saving over jpg file

I'm thankful to adobe for at least letting us... 'beta test' their 2020 version

This is exactly how I feel. And paying a subscription fee to do so. #frustrated

Exactly!! Thank you Liam What a pain in the arse this is, not to mention the piles of clutter of similarly named files it leaves on my drive. Frankly, I am disappointed with Adobe across the board. Lots of hangs and crashes on all programs.

Photoshop seems playing deaf about the complaints of the people.

Together with this issue, broken windowing that stops working which switching monitors, and constant crashes in color picker, text tool, nudge tool... I've decided to go back to using cc2019 which seems to have the stability we want?

cc2020 didn't bring any major features that helped my use-case so I'm more than happy to use more stable software. (I'm thankful to adobe for at least letting us run 2019 side-by-side for those who have production tasks, not just free time to 'beta test' their 2020 version)

Is there still no fix for this issue? This must be affecting millions of users? I am beginning to question if Adobe are actually looking into the issue.

I'm a full time designer who works a lot on magazines, when developing layouts and spreads in InDesign I often use 'Edit in Photoshop' function to adjust images. Having to then go through each image and re-link to the new copy afterwards is genuinely wasting so much time, not to mention extremely frustrating given that it used to work correctly.

Yep, just updated to v21.1.0 and tried to save an updated version of a JPG image. When Photoshop asked if I wanted to replace the existing version of that image, I said that I did -- then Photoshop went ahead and made a copy anyway.  I am losing way too much time dealing with this!

Updated to v21.1.0 which just released and THIS IS NOT FIXED
Photoshop 2020 is currently making me lose the will to live.

I wrote below script as a temporary solution while waiting for the fix. I use Sony camera, therefore the photo file name is always begin with DSC. I run the script as and when I need to clean up the mess.  

#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -d junk ]; then
    mkdir junk
fi

for copyjpg in $(ls -1 DSC*copy.JPG); do
    if [[ $copyjpg == "DSC"* ]]; then
        echo "$copyjpg"
        copyjpg=`echo $copyjpg | awk '{print $1}'`
        jpg=`echo $copyjpg | awk '{printf("%s.JPG",$1)}'`
        if [ -f $jpg ]; then
            echo "$jpg exist!"
            mv $jpg junk
        fi
        copyjpg=`echo $copyjpg | awk '{printf("%s\ copy.JPG",$1)}'`
        echo "$copyjpg"
        mv "$copyjpg" $jpg
    fi
done  

This is not how previous versions of Photoshop behaved and their suggestion is nothing more than an inefficient "solution". In previous versions if you're working on a layered PSD file and you want to save it out as a JPG it assumes you know your not saving layers and would simply save a flattened JPG; same as any other format that doesn't support layers. Furthermore, it never forced you to save a copy because, duh, you're saving it as a different file format. This is the way it should work.

I sent them a link to this forum on Twitter and received this response. Fingers crossed...