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Theo Kooijmans
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December 8, 2015
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Photoshop: Remember save options and path

  • December 8, 2015
  • 22 replies
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With windows it's very very annoying that the save-as option does not remember last export setting and path!

please take a look to Illustrator, they got this right.

22 replies

Inspiring
March 31, 2021

6 years and the technology still isn't there I suppose. 

Inspiring
September 28, 2020

Hi all, this is really annoying me, but I found a temporary workaround - if you save your PSD in the folder where you want to export your files, the file explorer window will default to the same filepath as your PSD. Let's hope adobe doesn't take this as a "fix" that they don't need to solve cause this is such a basic feature...

 

EDIT: I just discovered that after saving my PSD to a filepath, the dialogue remembers my last save destination, it doesn't always default to the PSD folder.

Theo Kooijmans
Known Participant
July 1, 2020
with file save options (in preferences) you can set save to original folder yes/no
This remembers last folder with a save action.
You can't set to remember last picture format however....
Inspiring
July 1, 2020
Yeah why do I have to tell PS *every* *single* *time* where I want to save? JUST REMEMBER IT. I'm working with so many images I swear it would save me a lot of time if I didn't have to manually specify the folder each time.
Known Participant
January 17, 2020
THIS IS STILL BROKEN, AND STILL JUST AS ANNOYING IT WAS EIGHT MONTHS AGO!
Inspiring
November 12, 2019
I've unchecked the "Save as ..." option and it solved the issue for me )

Inspiring
July 10, 2019
Very annoying. Finally upgraded to CC today and so disappointed this is the default behavior. EVERY app on my computer remembers the last save location in the file dialog by default, but not Adobe? It's like they decided to override the Mac OS default on this...
Known Participant
May 26, 2019
This is still a problem. If I am working with a couple of existing images, all existing in the same directory, and I try to export a PNG, it ALWAYS defaults to my windows HOME directory. I NEVER use that directory and in fact do not store "work" on the OS drive at all, but this stupid thing, rather than looking at the set of images I am working with and deriving the proper folder from that, I have to manually click through the folders to where my other files ALREADY are just to save a new file there. It's annoying as hell and even if it can't be changed to behave properly, I should be able to TELL photoshop what directory I want to use as the default rather than photoshop telling ME. At least I could point it to a folder that is a lot closer to where I need to be than the damn home directory.
Inspiring
March 6, 2019
I am having this same problem.  When I export, it always defaults to my desktop, so EVERY TIME I export a graphic, I have to navigate through many folders to get to the save destination.  This is extremely annoying... especially when I have several iterations of the same graphic that I need to save in one spot.
Inspiring
February 18, 2019
Hi. I do have ON the option "save as to original folder", but PS still doesn't remember the location 😞 any solution?