As a windows user, for nearly 3 decades saving a file hasn't changed, and hasn't needed to change. Saving a file for the first time, or doing "save as" opens a window with a folder tree viewer, and you select the folder you are saving to, give the file a name, and that file saves in the folder you've selected. This is about the simplest, most intuitive non-mysterious way to make sure a file you've created is being saved where you intend for it to be saved to.
I do not understand what possesed Adobe app developers to solve this issue which was not broken. The new "save as" popup dialogue in XD looks uneditable and unclickable. Your only option is to either save or cancel. It's not intuitive that you can click the folder path to select a folder, plus it buries this feature under another user layer. When you're in the folder you intuit that you name your file and save it there, but no, you only use this layer to select a folder, or create a new folder. Then you back out and now how do you rename your file? Do you click on the file name? Oh, ok so I accidentally did and found I can edit the name there.
But wait, my cloud document folder is the folder on my computer which is synched to the cloud, do I save in the cloud documents folder and is that the folder localized on my machine, or is that the "cloud" (queue wavy hands of mysteriousness).
Seriously, way confusing, ambiguous, overly-complicated. Why, in what dimension of reality, was it deemed necessary to utterly disrupt this otherwise seriously banal, simple, and unbroken user interface? This new interface has caused me to lose files, like gone. Not in the cloud where they were supposedly saved, not on my local machine, just gone.
Adobe does best when it's inventing new things that haven't existed before. They fall terribly on their face when they try to fix something that just really really doesn't need fixing. Can you please just return to the old save file interface, please?
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