/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idi-p/12249869Oct 23, 2019
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working on Catalina OS. saving file extension works now but does not save over jpg when saving it creates a copy which is annoying and time consuming to fix
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idc-p/12271822#M3501Mar 04, 2020
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Together with this issue, broken windowing that stops working which switching monitors, and constant crashes in color picker, text tool, nudge tool... I've decided to go back to using cc2019 which seems to have the stability we want?
cc2020 didn't bring any major features that helped my use-case so I'm more than happy to use more stable software. (I'm thankful to adobe for at least letting us run 2019 side-by-side for those who have production tasks, not just free time to 'beta test' their 2020 version)
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idc-p/12284628#M13624Mar 04, 2020
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Exactly!! Thank you Liam What a pain in the arse this is, not to mention the piles of clutter of similarly named files it leaves on my drive. Frankly, I am disappointed with Adobe across the board. Lots of hangs and crashes on all programs.
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idc-p/12271819#M3500Mar 04, 2020
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If you need a Super Dumb!TM hack, I've just started naming every single file with a " copy" at the end of it and photoshop overwrites things just the way I expected it to.
It's absolute garbage, but since the client will never see these files I'm in the clear.
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idc-p/12294703#M17859Mar 04, 2020
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I'm with you all. Not overwriting the existing file when I tell it to, then saving another file with "copy" appended is ridiculous. I was already annoyed by how cumbersome it was to save a file without "copy" being appended, but at least it would show in the Save As dialog box before actually saving. Now it doesn't even show you, it just does it. Adobe needs to stop catering to first-time users with these types of "fool-proofing" features and take better care of long-time, professional users. We're not idiots. And they're wasting our valuable time.
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idc-p/12271816#M3499Mar 05, 2020
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This is dumb. I'm going to start contact Adobe on a daily basis until someone competent can actually explain why this is happening. Just got this email back today:
Hi,
As discussed, the feature which you had trouble with is by design for the mac's.Unfortunately we do not have any written document for the same.
I also understand that it must be really frustrating when things don't work the way you want.
One simple method is to duplicate the document first by using Image > Duplicate. So when you then save it as a jpeg, you can just close the jpeg document window after it has finished saving, and the original layered file will still be open. Don't forget to save your original document as a PSD if you want to work on it in future. Jpegs can't contain layers, and you can't recover the layers from a jpeg.
Let me know if you have any questions.
If this is by design, then it's still broken because the application is not doing what it tells me it is going to do. (And if this is Mac only, can we get this "feature" added to Windows so we can annoy the other half of the community?)
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idc-p/12284583#M13579Mar 06, 2020
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Why is this "by design" for Apple users only? It's never worked this way prior to this release, contradicts what their save dialog says, and is just plain stupid.
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idc-p/12272127#M3599Mar 11, 2020
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This started happening to me yesterday. I noticed the some of the JPEGs I was working on had unusually large file sizes, so to purge unwanted data I used EXPORT > SAVE FOR WEB > JPEG (rather than just SAVE AS). This fixed the file size issue but seems to have caused this 'copy' bug. It was working fine before that.
I'm running MAC OS 10.15.3 and Photoshop 21.0.0
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idc-p/12284578#M13574Mar 12, 2020
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Pretty sure this "official" answer is wrong "by design" for Mac subscription slaves. Adobe: You'll eat it and you'll like it. Patently ridiculous that the same function works on a Mac with "Save for web." LOL sorry Mac users wanting to "save as" and "Replace" that TIFF file.
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idc-p/12272123#M3598Mar 20, 2020
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i found a work around to this and this is prob the way adobe wants you to save your jpegs. instead of save as, choose export as (command, option, shift, w) and then it doesn't create a copy and will save over the existing jpeg. you also don't have to flatten the file either.
/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/p-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-file/idc-p/12284567#M13563Mar 20, 2020
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I imagine that file size discrepancy is Photoshop saving a psd with a jpeg file format. That happens to me all the time. -_- The 'copy bug' is so much of a pain I've rolled back to CC19 - I'd rather deal with halide bottlenecks than this mess. 😞
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