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Inspiring
December 22, 2023

P: Photoshp Beta (25.4.0.2439) Program Error when Duplicating Layer to different document

  • December 22, 2023
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Photoshop Beta 25.4.0 Release.

 

Right clicking on layer and selecting "duplicate" then setting the destination to a different document results in a "Could not complete the Duplicate Layer command because of a program error.

 

However, the duplication does occur correctly.

 

 

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41 replies

lutka
New Participant
January 2, 2024

Yes. Hope it gets treated soon. Not sure but it might start giving error messages as well if you just keep trying to drag and drop several times... though this might be caused by something else as well, since error msg is not specified.

Sameer K
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 29, 2023

Share this internally & the team is working on it. Please add your votes from the top of the post.

Inspiring
December 28, 2023

Well, by choosing not to use the Beta, you won't be doing your part to correct the problem.  🙂

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
December 28, 2023

The way it has been explained by Adobe employees on this forum in the past, is that Photoshop is made of a library of modules.  A whole series of smaller apps which combine to make a whole.  Changing one can have unforeseen affects on another, and because of the complexity of an app like Photoshop, it might need an army of testers (us) to uncover bugs.  We have a choice don't forget.  Right now I am choosing not to use the beta version, mainly because of the Pen tool issue, but I'll got right back to making it my default version when that has been fixed.

Inspiring
December 28, 2023

Oh I understand just fine, but it makes no sense whatsoever when a beta is working in harmony with the way the regular Photoshop versions work, and then it is changed without rhyme or reason.

jane-e
Community Expert
December 28, 2023

 

@Stu32314935j7it  wrote: that's not what we expect from Adobe (beta or not)

 

 

 

Possibly you don't understand the purpose of a public beta, Stu. It's to find and report bugs and other issues to the product team so they are less likely to make it into the released version.

 

Jane

 

 

 

New Participant
December 26, 2023

After latest update to Ps beta, I am unable to drag and drop layers from one open file to another. Not sure if this function is currently under update or what, but it diesn't work for now (Dec 26). Anyone else have this issue?

New Participant
December 26, 2023

Same..

New Participant
December 25, 2023

25.4.0 Adobe Photoshop Beta - when trying to use the move tool with the alt key (Windows) to create a copy and move it to a different file, I get the error message: "could not use the move tool because of a program error"

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
December 26, 2023

This is a known issue.  It is possible to Duplicate to a New document, but not to another open document.  Fortunately, we can still drag a layer up to the tab of another open document, which is the way I think most of us do it anyway, because it is quicker.

Known Participant
December 23, 2023

Can't move my text png to my open image that i'm editing. Only happens since Beta update.  Error says I can't use the move tool. 

Ged_Traynor
Community Expert
December 24, 2023

@davidg51 try reporting the issue in the Photoshop (Beta) forum

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
December 23, 2023

This is the second post I have seen on this.  I tested and had the same result, so we should consider it a known problem that is being worked on.  

 

I usually work with the beta version, but between this and other issues — mainly that the Pen tool is not working properly — the beta version is currently unusable!