Photoshop Will Not Save Preferences (Settings)

Hello I see mentions of DXO, did you have that plugin loaded?

Can you please post the contents of Photoshop's Help>System Info... menu, so that we get more details about your setup.
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What OS are you on? Mac or PC? I'm on Mac Ventura

Nope. I thought it worked but after I opened PS and closed it a couple of times the same issue resumed. I tried installing PS 23.4.5 but it has the same issue. totally lost for a solution

Sorry for any confusion @Rodger Hudson Klein we were sharing a post from another thread showing how they solved this issue, it was due to a backup to Dropbox that was setup.  We were curious if this was possibly what you were seeing...

You say you deleted and reinstalled Ps 24 and it worked... so are you back up and working or not? 

"I uninstalled PS 24 and reinstalled it. That seemed to work"

Thank you,

Cory

Not sure I understood your last reply. What are you suggesting? I uninstalled PS 24 and reinstalled it. That seemed to work

Appreciate your patience @Rodger Hudson Klein...

Curious if this might be at play here from a previous post?

If that can help... I work on photoshop 23.4.1. None of the advices worked for me (full disk access, reset preferences...), until I stop the deskop folder backup I had with dropbox ! It works like a charm now.

Thank you,

Cory

Again I'm using PS 24.1.1 and Mac OS Ventura

Nope. That doesn't work. I keep getting the "write access denied" message. I checked all of the relevant folders and drives to make sure that read/write access was checked, but no luck.

Hmm, ok @Rodger Hudson Klein,

Let's make sure we're in a default state and there are no stale settings somewhere: 

Restore your preferences using this manual method:  

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually  

Does it work correctly? 

If that doesn't solve it, you can quit Photoshop and put the Settings folder back. 

Thank you,

Cory

Nope...gave full disk access to Photoshop but it still won't save the preferences