Save stuck on 0%. HELP! [2019]

For Mac Users:

After doing tons of research and experimenting with different save file destinations, I did come across something that has been working for me although it's not entirely a solution, but a workaround. First I ejected any externals and restarted my laptop. I have an extra external 500gb HDD, plugged it into my macbook pro late 2013 running Catalina 10.15 Beta, formatted the external to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) transferred over the files I was working on from my primary external, which is formatted as exFAT. Once transferred, I ejected the exFAT external and worked on the Mac OS Extended external. I usually encounter the "Save stuck on 0%" after about 5-10 minutes of using Photoshop, but this time it didn't freeze at all, it saved all my files during the 3 hours I was working on mulitple Photoshop files. Worked back and forth with Indesign while both were running and I had no issue with saving. I plan on transferring over the files once I'm done with the project to keep using my primary. Will keep posted after a week of using this method. Hope this helps someone!

Hello,
I am experiencing this issue for the second time. the first time was a huge data loss for me. My problem is that save is stuck in some percent of saving and never concludes. But all this results to not being able turn off the computer at all. and when i forced turned off the computer the SSD was "damaged". i had to clean the SSD and reformat it in the end. and now again the same story.
the problem at the moment is that i cannot save the photoshop file anywhere in the computer, at the same time i cannot close the application. while all this happens, other applications cannot use the SSD.
Guys this is serious, test the bloody application before releasing it!!!
we are not talking about a wrong brush or letter. 
I am wating for a solution on that...

Been having this issue for the last 3 days now. Catalina, SSD, and no fix.

The Save to Desktop suggestion doesn't work, as Photoshop is still stuck trying to save from the first time I tried. Then tried creating a new document and moving all the layers over, but again, can't save because it's stuck. Can't X out the save or cancel it, so now I'm losing everything I worked on today.

Pretty ridiculous that this thread started nearly three months ago and there still isn't a solution or even acknowledgement anywhere from Adobe.

I'm having the same issue, stuck on 0%. I'm on a PC and saving locally. Extremely frustrating. Only started since I updated to 2020. I tried uninstallying and re-installing and issue still happens. Did anyone try somethign that worked? Adobe... any advice?

I just did something I don't think I have ever done before: I saved a file directly to one of my many external disks. Went without a hitch, on Win 10 pro.

Just mentioning because we've had some Windows users complaining about the same thing.

But again: saving directly to an external goes against every instinct in my body, and I almost had to force myself to do it.

Is there a solution to this issue yet?  I just completed a major edit and it won't save.  Stays at 0%.  I did read elsewhere that a workaround would be to create a composite image of the layers and then duplicate that and then save, but that file won't save either.... Any help would be appreciated.  Hoping I don't have to redo tha whole edit (face swap)....

It's Catalina, everyone.

The same has happened to me since the 2020 update. I cannot work off any external drives and have to copy my files to the desktop. If I try to force quit photoshop when it gets stuck saving, the file gets corrupted and I lose all my work. This has been extremely frustrating...

Saving to external drives especially SSD's can eventually become problematic.  If the external is an SSD remove as much of the data as possible then try again.  If that's still not working transfer all the data off this drive and format it again.  SSD's do not like being very full and performance goes downhill quickly as that space is reduced.  Network drives are usually better but any network hickups can also cause a loss of data.  

This also just happened to me, I am trying to save into my external SSD and no go. I even created a dupilicate and tried saving it into my local drive and same thing, does not go over 0% save. I'm out of ideas.