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Inspiring
March 10, 2012
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P: Please update Open/Save dialogs in Adobe products to Vista dialogs

  • March 10, 2012
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In all Adobe programs, the Open/Save dialog boxes use the Windows 95 convention, instead of Windows Vista/7/8. Drilling down to save files where you want is a PITA. With CS6, please bring Adobe into this decade with the Open/Save menus. All other programs on my PC have long ago updated to this.

36 replies

PECourtejoie
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 25, 2013
Photoshop CC now has the new open dialogs, as shown in this message : http://forums.adobe.com/message/53406...
Inspiring
March 5, 2013
Damn I cant believe Adobe haven't fixed this yet....
I thought it was self evident the file dialog was being left in the stone ages. Fact is all my other professional tools have better file dialogs (many of which use the Windows 7 style...the others are mostly QT based custom solutions)
Luckily I do 3D stuff mostly...But still the inconvenience is still high when using Adobe software
Participant
February 17, 2013
add the standard windows functionality into the save/save as dialog, including the favorites, and make photoshop remember the last folder saved to, and last file format saved to.

Legend
November 11, 2012
Chris has responded to this and the topic is marked as 'under consideration.'
Participant
November 11, 2012
Why can't Adobe respond to this?
Inspiring
October 10, 2012
Bump & +1
we really need it.. it would be nice as an creative cloud update! (hint hint) Or let me save through bridge... would also work great.. !

Pretty please, we needz it!
Inspiring
September 14, 2012
Apparently, considering this is the only reply we've gotten so far from an official "employee". 🙂
Inspiring
September 14, 2012
Is this how Adobe wants to be seen to explain things to customers?
Participating Frequently
September 13, 2012
Thanks Timothy for posting this "best one we got" solution/workaround. I ́m glad I ́m not alone here. Adobe should really take this serious and do something about it. I bet there are more annoyed windows Vista/7 users right now than there would be XP users if they fixed this. And if they do it right they don ́t have to piss off the XP users either.
Inspiring
September 13, 2012
Depends on your definition of a solution. It doesn't address the primary problem, but is it a solution for Mårten's proposed problem.

So while it's a workaround for the underlying issue, Mårten just wanted to know if those locations could be changed. Thus I listed a (crummy, but what we're limited to) solution.

The fact still remains, Adobe's developers are being lazy here. You can program an application to display one save screen vs. the other depending on what OS it's installed on.

Adobe knows people will still buy their software in spite of this not being changed, so they are being slackers and doing nothing about this.

While I would understand this mentality if these were free programs (i.e. Facebook, where YOU are the product, you're not paying for it, so they don't need to conform to the requests of users), but since we're paying $400-$2700 for these I would expect more from Adobe.

This topic is starting to fill up. Please ask everyone you know to add their +1 to this topic. Let's let Adobe know we're tired of being ignored.