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P: Copy/Paste for layer names suddenly stops working - Windows

Forum|Forum|6 months ago
July 29, 2025
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Hello,

after the update from v26.8.1 to v26.9, the following bug occurs:

My workflow involves precise layer naming. I often have to re-use the same part of a layer name convention, so for sake of speed, instead of writing the same name convention on a layer hundreds of times, I use to copy-paste the layer name from one layer to another.

To do that I use the shortcut ctrl+C and ctrl+V.

Unfortunately after the latest update, the copy paste function for layer NAMES stoped working and no name is copied/pasted. The layer itself ist copied instead.

Neither restarting PS does help, nor re-installing it.

Hope this can be solved quickly.

Thank you in advance for your concern.

Windows

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Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@Sameer K that's the reason I couldn't replicate the issue, I always have contextual task bar hidden!

TheRafaelAlves

Participant

I have two machines, one for work (remote) and I noticed that I had this same problem, it is copying and pasting the layer instead of just the name, then I saw that in photoshop on my local machine it was working normally, I saw that the new update was available and I updated, and the same problem started to appear, I believe it is a bug in the version

Sameer K

Community Manager

While the team is investigating this, hide the contextual task bar as a current workaround. Most of the functions (CTRL+A, C, V) mentioned here should work as expected. Also, a fix might soon be available to test in Photoshop (beta).

I hope this helps. Thanks!
Sameer K

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CM_Industry9095

Participant

I would also add that the “Ctrl + A” key combination to select the entire layer name does not work

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Taylor5FC8

Participant

I am also having the same issue. Right Click - Copy & Paste works, but Ctrl C & Ctrl V will not copy layer names, but instead copy the whole layer.

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andrew_8885

Participant

Having this issue as well.

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ndesigns

Participant

Same problem on our two pc's win11 with latest version... the layer name is only copied with right click and pasted with right click. If i use ctrl+c and ctrl+v it douplicates the copied layer and not hte title...

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CM_Industry9095

Participant

I had the exact same problem after the update, previous version - everything is fine. The solutions described above do not help.

Busra.B

Participating Frequently

I also have the same issue.

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Adrian_B2209

Participant

Hello,

Exactly the same issue happened to me after updating to 26.9. I tried reseting preferences but that didn't work. Rolling back to 26.8.1 fixed the issue so it's got to be some sort of a bug.

Hope this resolves quickly.

Have a nice day everyone!

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@3Dvice I just tested on my system with Photoshop version 26.9, and it's working fine for me, have you tried manually resetting your Photoshop preferences
https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually
Remember to back up your settings before doing the preference reset
https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preset-migration.html

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3DviceAuthor

Known Participant

Thanks for the hint: Yes, I just did, but the bug remains, unfortunately. In the meanwhile, another PS update came in, but this one did not resolve the problem. I now went back to v26.8.1 and here it works fine...

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