The past couple days Photoshop keeps giving a pop up asking me to confirm saving when it should not be asking

Hi, ​@Sameer K 

So what I always do is I open LR first, do my color grading, and when photos are selected for edits I click to send to photoshop from there.  Then tab over to photoshop, do the edit, saving multiple times along the way (without any pop up) export png when done, tab back to LR, go to the next photo selected for edit, do it again.

This has been the one and only process I’ve ever done for years.

The first couple years the automatic write to xmp from LR was default on and no issues, then LR started to random crash for no reason, no crash report no nothing, just force closes itself (this is still an on going different issue still not fixed), so then I turned it off and continued since the culprit was found to be that option.  couple years later again people were finally trying to help with the LR issue, and while troubleshooting, I had that option turned back on, then suddenly Photoshop no longer liked that option between the time I turned it off and back on a while later and started this pop up.

Then someone pointed out, PS didn’t like that setting, so I turned it back off, I think this was sometime around last year or so.  That fixed the PS pop up issue.

But now it has not been turned back on since and now PS is popping that up again.  So the only thing I can think now is Adobe added some other setting that is now doing the exact same.

Oh, it’s all on internal, I never use any cloud.  It pops up within a split second of hitting save, it does not do it for any backup/background save or whatever…..unless somehow that got turned off without me touching it.

This started again within a week or two ago.  I did not do any update before hand, so it was on the one or two version I was on before the very last one I just updated to last night to see if it would go away and it did not.

I did not try if opening LR directly from the TIF because it is buried in tons of other photos since I pull them directly from galleries in LR.   Oh…..There was ONE time I hit save that it did not do the pop up last night, which threw me off, I was making little tweak fixes at the very end when I was done and had to go back and fix some parts before exporting again and saved and no pop up, but then had to change something else minutes later and saved to be actually done and it popped up again.   So I must have gotten that one rogue normal save between some sort of interval of the TIF being tampered with.

I did try this opening another file directly from the file, but it was a PSD file, not a TIF, because it default saves them as PSD when I do edits from individual images not using LR, for other random projects, and it does not do it for those PSD outside of LR.  So far it only does it on the TIFs sent from LR with LR open.   I also have not tried yet to close LR after I send to PS, just thought of that now while typing this, would be an annoying process constantly having to close reopen LR every photo as a normal thing, but I have not done that yet for troubleshooting.