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casies76046535
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November 1, 2019
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Photoshop is taking long time to save files

  • November 1, 2019
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It seems to be taking a really long time for Photoshop to finish saving a photo with actions applied. It never used to take more than a few seconds to save, but recently it is taking several minutes or longer to save back to Lightroom and gets stuck at like 98% saved. Would it be best to just re-install photoshop?

 

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    Lionhead
    Lionhead
    Participant
    February 3, 2026

    Or, consider their servers may be located in India

     

    Lionhead
    Lionhead
    Participant
    February 3, 2026

    I’m having the same issues and bet it’s related to adobe’s servers.  Possibly weather related, or they haven’t added enough storage, or this constant hunger for tracking it’s members and not putting enough money into quality engineers

     

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    Redhartotter
    Inspiring
    April 29, 2024

    Me too.  Has happened just recently.  I do have some rather large Photoshop or Large Document files at times but the save time was never this slow.  Using Ventura 13.3.1

     

      D Fosse
      Community Expert
      D FosseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 29, 2024

      What kind of drive are you saving to? Saving directly to an external drive is not recommended/unsupported and unpredictable problems may occur due to changed protocols, changed drivers etc.

       

      Save locally, then copy over.

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      Redhartotter
      Inspiring
      April 29, 2024

      Saving locally.

      Kevin Stohlmeyer
      Community Expert
      Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 6, 2020

      Where are you saving to specifically? Local HD, external, network etc?

      What OS are you running?

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      Hofmanis
      Participant
      October 6, 2020

      OS 10.15.7

      Opening with cmd+e from Lightroom to Photoshop. Doing some retouching and after with cmd+s saving back to Lightroom. It used to take secons, but after latest updates it takes several minutes.

      Kevin Stohlmeyer
      Community Expert
      Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 7, 2020

      Where is your LR catalog stored?

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      Hofmanis
      Participant
      October 6, 2020

      Same issues here. It went very fast till one of the last updates. I'm running the latest releases on Lightroom and Photoshop.

        bcech13
        bcech13
        Participating Frequently
        November 7, 2019

        Having the same issue. It started a couple of weeks ago out of nowhere. I have not changed anything in my workflow. Most of the time I have to "Force Quit" Photoshop and then restart my computer. 

          Sahil.Chawla
          Adobe Employee
          Sahil.Chawla
          Adobe Employee
          November 1, 2019

          Hi There,

          Sorry to hear about long saving times of Photoshop, could you please let us know the exact version of Photoshop you're working with?

           

          Could you please try resetting the preferences of Photoshop and let us know if it helps with the issue? https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

           

          Note: Make sure that you back up all your custom presets, brushes and actions before restoring Photoshop's preferences. Migrate presets, actions, and settings

           

          Regards,
          Sahil

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          casies76046535Author
          Participant
          November 3, 2019

          I am working on Photoshop CC 2019

          I tried resetting preferences. Still having the same issue.

          I re-installed Photoshop, did not help.

          I pull in a photo from Lightroom. Add some actions and minor 'fixes' and then save the file to pop back over to Lightroom. It saves quickly all the way up until 98% saved. Then it gets stuck there for like 10 minutes or more.

           

          Super frustrating and slowing me up on finishing my sessions.

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