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P: Why was auto-complete in File Info removed from the latest (2014) version?

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
August 11, 2014
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When using the File Info section of the previous version of PS CC prior to the newest 2014 version, I could simply type in the first one or two letters of any of the fields and the program would auto-fill (or suggest) the rest of the text for that field. With the newest (2014) version of PS CC it isn't doing that...and I'm told this feature was no longer included in the newest version. To me that's ridiculous that they removed this feature, as it saved me a ton of time. Is there any way that we can request that this auto-complete feature be reinstated into the newest version?

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Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Are you using Photoshop CC 2019 (version 20.x)? This feature was restored in the latest version.

Autocomplete list will be displayed by for the single line and multiline text fields in File Info dialog. It also shows separate list while entering each array value in the array property text fields. An option was added to disable this feature in Preferences dialog of File Info. The autocomplete entries for a property are stored and shared for all applications that use fileinfo dialog. Max entries stored per property for now are: 20. It displays scrollable list with 5 entries being visible at a time. If a customer wants to, they can clear this list as well.

By @J453

I keep forgetting how to clear this, so thank you!

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J453

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Create a separate topic to track this request

Please reference the new conversation here: File Info

RankRotten

Known Participant

Thanks for response Jeffrey
It does not fully replicate the previous flash based File Info panel in Photoshop CC 2014 (14.2.1) and before. Can you offer feedback to the dev team to restore it? Specifically the last used template being already selected in the "Template Fo.." drop down box when opening the next image. CC 2019 you need to select it then navigate the drop down list every time to select the saved template. It's a couple of extra mouse clicks to accomplish the same thing on CC 2019 but soon adds up when editing and captioning many images.

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J453

Legend

Are you using Photoshop CC 2019 (version 20.x)? This feature was restored in the latest version.

Autocomplete list will be displayed by for the single line and multiline text fields in File Info dialog. It also shows separate list while entering each array value in the array property text fields. An option was added to disable this feature in Preferences dialog of File Info. The autocomplete entries for a property are stored and shared for all applications that use fileinfo dialog. Max entries stored per property for now are: 20. It displays scrollable list with 5 entries being visible at a time. If a customer wants to, they can clear this list as well.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

Clearly Adobe is turning a deaf ear to the many repetitions of this complaint. Benighted fools at Adobe.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

Not quite - needs to retain the last used template in the drop down box instead of having to select it every time

RankRotten

Known Participant

Fixed in PS CC 2019!