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Saving a file to my computer every time I move an image to Photoshop

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September 15, 2023
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I've been using the same workflow for years. All of a sudden, every time that I move a file from LRC to PS (photo>edit in) that edited file is being saved on my computer without me asking it to. I then do my second set of edits, and save the file with a new name. Usually, that newly named file appears back in LRC in case I need to make any further adjustments, but that's not happening. The only thing that's there is the original and the file that unwantedly got saved when I moved it the first time.

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JohanElzenga

Community Expert

In the Lightroom preferences, click the 'Reset All Warning Dialogs' button. This sounds like a version mismatch (meaning Lightroom and Photoshop are not the same version, caused by the fact that Photoshop is already updated and Lightroom Classic is not). Usually this only happens when you have an older version of Photoshop, but perhaps this time the newer version also triggers it. In that case Lightroom warns you and asks you what to do. Render the file in Lightroom is one of the choices and you can click a "Don't ask again" checkbox. This sounds like you've done that some time in the past. If you do get that warning after resetting the dialogs, then choose "Open Anyway".

By the way: the correct procedure for saving the file in Photoshop is to always use "Save", not "Save as". In the past, "Save as" and giving the file a different name would make Lightroom not recognize and not import it. Then, all of a sudden, "Save as" worked as well, but this was never an official feature. It possible, and I have seen other reports, that "Save as" doesn't work any more with the latest version.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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richardplondon

Community Expert

I am seeing Save As working normally in latest version. To be clear, this depends on whether you have an unsaved image open in PS, or an already saved file open (which you can determine by looking at what's reported as the document window title). If that title shows for example a Raw file extension, this tells you PS is referring back to the underlying source file for lack of any other reference to use, as yet. Save will create a file on disk using the default file name and type and location that LrC has suggested, and also automatically import that file into the Catalog, and will start reporting that new filename in the document window title.

Save As does all the exact same things, except that this way you gain an opportunity to depart from LrC's default suggestions for file name / location / file type.

Subsequent to this initial Save . Save As which establishes an actual filename know to LrC, only then do Save and Save As start having different practical connotations so far as the Catalog. Save hereafter updates the same file that is already imported. Save As hereafter produces a separate file which is none of the Catalog's business and which it will therefore not auto import.

AxelMatt

Community Expert

In a first step try is to reset the preferences to the default settings.

Reset Procedure:
Close Lightroom.
Windows: Hold down [Alt]+[Shift] while restarting Lightroom.
Mac: Hold down [Opt]+[Shift] while restarting Lightroom.
Overwrite the Preferences when prompted by the dialog.
Close Lightroom.
Restart Lightroom.

It's recommended to backup your preferences before you reset the preferences to the default settings:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/preference-file-and-other-file-locations.html

If this doesn't help we need more informations about your environment.

Which operating system do you use?

Which version of Lightroom and Photoshop do you use?

Please post the exact version and not only phrases as "recent", "latest" and so on.

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI

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Bill Sprague

Community Expert

I too have been using Lightroom for years. Since Lightroom 4!

Are you working with RAW or JPEG files? File handling is different. Will you please outline the steps your are taking in more detail? Screenshots will help too.

Generally, saving a file with a new name does not give Lightroom Classic a notice that there is a new file. If you do that, you have to Sync or Import to let Lightroom Classic know the file exists.

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LindaCinMaineAuthor

Inspiring

ISSUE #2 RESOLVED Generative Fill is now in regular Photoshop. Uninstalled Beta and installed normal version

ISSUE #1 RESOLVED Although I had the newest versions of both programs, there was still an older version of Photoshop on my computer in File Explorer. Removing it from my computer and clearing the additional external editing program from Preferences in Lightroom solved the problem. Thank you everyone!

I work with RAW files. I've used the same workflow for years.
Everything was fine until a few hours ago.
I don't use LRC to manage all of my files. I don't import all of them. I
take at least 100,000 images during a 3-day event.
I move the files that I'm going to work with at the time to my computer.

Workflow: I import a single image into LRC, move it to develop, do my
edits, and then move the image to PS.
When I move that image to PS, all of a sudden a new TIFF file is being
saved on my computer.
I never asked that image to be saved on my computer. I just wanted it to
move to PS.
It's never saved that extra TIFF file with my initial edits before.
It never saved that extra unwanted file before a few hours ago. That's
issue #1. RESOLVED SEE ABOVE

Issue #2 is that for years, once I finished working on it in PS and saved
it with it's new name, for years, that processed and renamed file would
show up back in LRC and could be worked again. I never had to do anything
in the past to make that happen.
Now, the only thing that's showing in the Library is the original file that
I edited and the duplicate that got unwantedly saved to my computer when I
moved it from LRC to PS the first time. RESOLVED SEE ABOVE
I appreciate your help!

Michael J. Hoffman

Community Expert

I work with RAW files [...]
When I move that image to PS, all of a sudden a new TIFF file is being
saved on my computer.

Issue #2 is that for years, once I finished working on it in PS and saved it with it's new name...
By @LindaCinMaine

When you are working with a raw file and send it to Photoshop using "Edit In..." a TIFF (or PSD) must be rendered as a file for Photoshop to use. Lightoom has always worked this way since version 1. There isn't anything that can be done because PS needs a file to work on, and it cannot edit a raw file. Lightroom uses its camera raw engine to create a TIFF (or PSD) from the raw file and your Develop module adjustments, then launches PS with that newly created file. Again, LR has always worked like this.

When you finish editing in PS, you must save and close without changing the name of the file, in order for the round trip functionality to work correctly (the new file that was created and passed to PS is in the Library, just as you saved it in PS). If you change the name in PS by using "Save As," you've created a new (third) file that Lightroom knows nothing about.

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