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Unable to Copy & Paste in Save As Dialog box in Illustrator 2020 on macOS Catalina

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November 6, 2019
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Is anyone else encountering this with Illustrator 2020? What is weird is that this function was working just fine, and then one day when I started working, all of a sudden I cannot copy and paste text into the Save As dialog box. You may think that this is just a miniscule thing to be annoyed by; however, I work for a marketing firm and I create tons of ads for businesses on the daily. It is much faster for me to just copy and paste a business's name into that field and save it really quickly. Now, what I have to do, which is super, super annoying and just takes up more of my time, is that I save it as "Untitled" into the appropriate folder, then I have to close the document, go to the folder, and rename it to get it to paste the name that I want, then I have to open the document back up. This is ridiculous and I really hope that either someone has found a way to change this setting or that Adobe updates this bug ASAP.

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angelog272

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Same - photoshop

Srishti Bali

Community Manager

Hi all,

We have the fix available in the latest release. Please update Illustrator using Adobe Creative Cloud application to the latest build for version Illustrator CC 24.0.1 and let us know how it goes.

Regards,

Srishti

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fuzzyfootpress

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Hi, I'm on a Mac. I updated to Catalina: 10.15.4, and with that went ahead and updated from 24.0.1 (which had been working.) It seems this issue has come back in the newest version, 24.1. I am not able to paste into the "New Folder" save box. I can paste by Command V renaming a file, but If I click new folder and try to Paste (Command V) and it will not work. I can right-click and paste in, but that's much more inconvenient. I have gone back to the older version, but it's not working anymore.

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jackbottAuthor

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Hey y'all,

I was going to make a new post on the UserVoice page, but it looks like someone beat me to it! Please vote if you are having the same issue:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-bugs/suggestions/38976301--save-as-window-cmd-c-cmd-v-cmd-x-cmd-a-don

Thanks!

Srishti Bali

Community Manager

Hi All,

Sorry to hear about this. This has been reported by a few other users as well and our Product team is looking into it. Could you please check and confirm if you have the same issue on other Adobe applications like Photoshop/ Premiere Pro?

I would also suggest that if you can post this issue on our UserVoice page (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/ ). This is the best way of communicating with the Engineering and Product Management teams regarding issues and suggestions so they can be implemented in future releases.

Regards,

Srishti

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jackbottAuthor

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Thank you, Srishti! This does not happen for me in any other programs besides Adobe Illustrator. I do not use Premiere Pro, but my firm uses InDesign and Photoshop and I haven't had this problem in those two programs. I will also post this on the UserVoice page!

Srishti Bali

Community Manager

Thanks so much for confirming. Once you post this on UserVoice page, share the link here, so that others could also upvote on it.

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davidw6427758

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I'm having the exact same issue. I did notice that right clicking and selecting "copy/cut/paste" works, but this is NOT an ideal fix by any means.
I can't find any solutions or other discussions about this problem as of yet. From my observations the "Save As" window disables the keyboard shortcut commands for Illustrator; Select All, Copy, Cut, Paste... It's all disabled until you exit the window. (Illustrator will recognize the input because the "Edit" in the menu bar highlights when you press the keys, but still, nothing happens.) From my experience this is a problem exclusive to Illustrator. No other program on my computer has this issue.

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jackbottAuthor

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I'm glad I am not the only one encountering this! For me the right click option does not seem to work either. [Edit: I tried the right clicking again and now it seems to be working. Thank you for that suggestion! It is still annoying, but not as annoying as my workaround]. And you're right--I am only having this issue with Illustrator. InDesign and Photoshop do not pose this problem for me at all. Hoping that it is just a bug they can patch very quickly!

Rishabh_Tiwari

Community Manager

Thanks for providing additional information. Can you try resetting the preferences of Illustrator by following these steps:

Close Illustrator.
Click on the Finder icon on the dock, choose Go on the top> Go To Folder.
In the Go To Folder dialog box, type "~/Library". Click Go.
Open the Preferences Folder > rename the Illustrator 24 Settings folder to Illustrator 24 Settings folder.old
Under Preferences, Open Adobe folder and rename Adobe Illustrator folder to Adobe Illustrator.old
Go back to library->open caches->rename com.adobe.illustrator to com.adobe.illustrator.old
Go back to library->open application support-> open adobe->rename the Illustrator 24 folder to Illustrator 24 folder.old

Disclaimer: Please note that resetting preferences will remove all the custom settings and Illustrator will launch with default settings. This way all your old settings will be saved in .old folders and Illustrator will recreate new folders with default settings.

Let us know if this helps or if you need any further assistance.

Regards

Rishabh

Rishabh_Tiwari

Community Manager

Hi there,

Sorry to hear about the trouble you are facing with Illustrator while saving the files by copying and pasting in Save As dialog box. I would request if you can share a few more details like:

Operating System and its exact version.
Is the issue related to a specific document?
Where are you trying to save the file (Network Drive/ System Hard Drive/ Shared Folder on System /External Hard Drive)?
When did this start happening? Are there any recent changes made to your system? For example, any antivirus, system updates or web extensions installed recently.

Regards

Rishabh

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jackbottAuthor

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Hi Rishabh,

I am on a Late 2015 iMac, OS Catalina 10.15.1 (most recent release), and I have kept Illustrator 2020 up to date as well (v. 24.0). It is for any new document that I create--and I try to save it anywhere. On my desktop, on the external drive for my company, on a a USB drive... you name it. This started happening a couple of days ago. I didn't make any changes to my work computer. I know that I did update to 2020 a few days ago, but like I said, it was working just fine, even on 2020, and then all of a sudden it stopped. I could understand if I went from 2019 to 2020 that I would probably just have to revert back and it would work. Honestly, I probably still can do that, but I'd prefer to be on the newest version, of course. No new extensions or antivirus installed at all. See davidw6427758's response below as well. I think he said it best--when you go to Save As in Illustrator, it disables the keyboard shortcut commands.

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