File name disappears after entering a space while typing during saving - Illustrator on macOS

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March 27, 2026
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Recently, when I go to save a new file and write the file name the entire text will disappear after I enter a space into the file name. For example: if I want to write “3.27.2026_file name here” everything will disappear once I hit space after “file”. I can get around this by not entering any spaces, but it’s not an ideal workaround and more importantly just doesn’t seem to make any sense as to why it started happening.

Can confirm that it happens on multiple Adobe programs; both Illustrator and Indesign have this issue when I go to save a new file. It seems to have started after a recent Mac update, but I only experience this issue when saving in Adobe programs.

Correct answer Nathan_MELOS

This is a Mac bug, not an Adobe bug.

See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256268832?sortBy=rank or https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1s8ypi5/264_ridiculous_bug_save_as_name_field_period/ for non Adobe examples. Confirmed present in Tahoe 26.4, may be present in 26.3.1.

Note that if you have the extensions displaying in the save dialogue (.jpg at the end) then this won’t happen, it’ll save as normal. You can manually type the extension in your dialogue box and then go back and fill out the name if you need to work around this.