P: Starting in v 23.1.1 - keeps nagging me to save to Creative Cloud

[Destination Unknown]

I've been paying for / using Photoshop for many years (since way back to version 3 in 1996).

I don't use the Creative Cloud for saving files, and don't want to.

However, starting with version 23.1.1 whenever I create new file from an image I've copied to the PC's clipboard and then paste it into the blank PSD and Save, it now prompts me to save the file to the Creative Cloud.

The first time it popped-up (today) I made sure to put a check mark in the "Dont Show Again" box and chose "Save to your computer".

Yet it's still popping-up the "Save to Creative Cloud" prompt every time and still forcing me to make the extra step of choosing "On your computer" , every time. (Screenshot attached).

This is insanely annoying.

At first I thought hmmm... OK maybe just a glitch, so I shut down PhotoShop and restarted my PC. Problem still happens. I can't seem to find any way to change it in the settings.

Has anyone else encountering this bug? Know of a solution?

Many thanks for any input!

[cyclopsdx]

Updated to 23.4.2 and it defaults back to saving to the Cloud AGAIN, despite changing it in my Preferences on the last version. You really are frustrating. 

[GapingWound]

This stupid "feature" resets itself on my PC about once a month, just about the same interval I get the stupid notification about the 3D features going away. This time, it did it in the middle of a session. I save one psd locally, 15 mins later, try to save another one and it prompts me to save to the stupid cloud. I am just about done with Adobe and their crap. Affinity Photo is a great replacement.

ADOBE: DO BETTER! Since you have switched to the subscription model, photoshop has suffered GREATLY. From keyboard shortcuts that don't allow you to move to an inactive layer, to you ACTIVELY REMOVING 3D features to try to get people to pay YET ANOTHER subscription fee (When you purchased Substance, you tweeted it would be added to CC), to resized images having semi transparent pixels at the edges, and NONE OF IT ever gets fixed.

DO BETTER.

[SeekinTruth]

Thank you! This worked for the same problem with Illistrator, except that AI wouldn't even save a file. It wouldn't bring up the OS window that lets you select where to save. It seemed [removed] bent on making go ont othe CLoude- which I absolutely refuse to do. My work is private. The "reset warnings" in preferences was all I had to do.

[khellstr]

Just let me ALWAYS save my files on my Computer and STOP pushing your cloud which is cluttered with problems every 2 weeks. 

There is enough "malwate" already to disable with windows, I don't like my tools to be one of those. 

[debbieh50552977]

Not everyone wants to save to cloud.  Some people don't have the data and in my case travelling around Australia we don't always have internet in certain areas.  I prefer to save to my computer and have control off line.  I have PS 24.0 and there is nowhere to change in file handling to save direct to my computer.  I have to go through several steps once I've completed my project to save.  If it's not broken why try to fix it. 

[debbieh50552977]

this is what version 24.0 looks like and nowhere can I change back to my computer.  Adobe, it would be appreciated if you could correct this so we have a choice.  Cloud is not suitable for those who live outside major cities in Australia. 

[Nancy OShea]

@debbieh50552977,

Which operating system?

Do you have the latest OS updates?

Go to File > SaveAs...  Select a folder on your local hard drive for which you have both read & write permissions.

[kit Kerner]

Well, I thought I was the only one or (still) crazy about this "saving of one's work" to the cloud. The person that thought that one up as a default should spend a few days on the beach. Thank you very much for making the update to that. The cloud is useful, but I'll bet most users want their work closer to home but do appreciate the option. 

[debbieh50552977]

Hi I have version 24.0 as per the photo I put up previously it shows nowhere to change to save to computer 

[jane-e]

@debbieh50552977 wrote:

I have version 24.0 as per the photo I put up previously it shows nowhere to change to save to computer

Debbie, one thing we see is that folks have the newest version installed, but have opened an older version. Can you go to Help > About and tell us which version you have open?

You can also launch v. 24.0 directly from the Creative Cloud app.

Jane

[frontendnerd]

Fix is to get 24.0.1 update. 24.0.0 does NOT have ability to disable the default of saving to cloud. They fixed it in 24.0.1. 

[frontendnerd]

It looks like 24.0.0. had a regression, since earlier versions had this option.

[cyclopsdx]

It's definitely there. I haven't upgraded to 24.0.1 yet and I have the option to save locally.

[debbieh50552977]

@frontendnerd 

thank you, I didn't think I was going mad.  I'm just updating version 24 to version 24.0.1.  

[debbieh50552977]

@jane-e 

Debbie, one thing we see is that folks have the newest version installed, but have opened an older version. Can you go to Help > About and tell us which version you have open?  You can also launch v. 24.0 directly from the Creative Cloud app.

I have been using Photoshop and Lightroom regularly and for many years.  As I travel around Australia without internet coverage in many cases, I have to keep my programs up todate otherwise I can't access them.  Until Adobe started pushing the Cloud I never had a need to go on this forum. Thank you for trying to help but I did communicate with Adobe direct a couple of days ago, pointing out that their 24.0 version did not have the option.  Version 24.01 which I have just updated with now has the option.  Hopefully it will stay there perminately. 

[jessamy444]

This worked for me.

[frontendnerd]

It seems like some people have the option in 24.0.0 and others do not. Cloud software is deployed with feature flags that permit a feature to be enabled through a configuration file. Perhaps this feature is sitting behind a feature flag and Adobe was running an experiment where they disable it for a subset of users to see how many people complain when they take it away?

[Daniel Kramer]

It's back with the latest update. Be sure to update the File Handling preference with that option to enable it.

[Lumigraphics]

I have 24.0.1 and it does NOT have that preference on Windows 10 Pro.

[frontendnerd]

Interesting. That supports the feature flag hypothesis: that Adobe has the feature disabled for a subset of users/regions. 

[Lumigraphics]

I doubt there is a "feature flag." More likely if I reset preferences/warnings, it would reappear.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I'm on Windows 10 (Home, but I doubt that makes a difference with this issue) and v20.0.1.

I have the following options:

[frontendnerd]

Features flags are a real thing. I have seen them in multiple companies. I'm a software developer. This is precisely the sort of thing that would be behind a feature flag. While it may be one of the many preferences-related issues, it's an interesting idea to consider that, given the way it keeps popping up across versions, that's it's connected to their cloud implementation. Especially since the product managers at Adobe very like prefer users to save on the cloud for many reasons.

[Keith259926468lp1]

I am on v24.0.0 and I have the default save location option in my preferences.

[Lumigraphics]

I'm aware of what feature flags are. I seriously doubt that Adobe is doing some sort of secret test with mass distributed software. But 99.9999999% of conspiracy theories are nonsense so...