Fixed: Photoshop 2020 File name bug when saving a replacement of an existing file

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October 25, 2019
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Hej! The old photoshop behaviour used to be that when you save to overwrite an existing file it asks you to confirm that you want to replace it, you say yes, and the old file gets overwritten. In the latest version if you click "replace" it still does not replace the file, but adds "copy of" text at the end after the fact without any way to not do that. Please give us an option to have the old behaviour, or change it back to how it used to be by default.

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Clacey81

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I contacted Adobe as well and they told me that I just need to wait for the next Photoshop update which should eliminate this issue. Until then, we just have to deal with it I guess. There was no timeframe as to when it will be fixed.

sevdestruct

Participating Frequently

Cannot deselect save as copy on jpgs, pngs—any output—even if electing to overwrite existing file (to be clear this is when the systems asks to overwrite the existing file and you select YES. It does not. Not at all. Not like it used to) creates a new file as copy regardless. In other words this is forcing Save as Copy. It cannot be deselected. This is a bug. Please fix. This has been causing extra work per file when saving output over previously Save As output (something we have all done for decades without issue until now).

OS: macOS Catalina

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Marina at Distillery

Participating Frequently

Hi Ian,

Is it possible that you remember doing it but not remembering that it was only a single layer file at that instance. But i promise you it has been (this) way since I can remember.

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You save as a copy, but you don’t have to have the word “copy” added. Now
it only overwrites if the file has copy already. This behavior is only
happening to people with OS Catalina as far as I can tell. None of my
coworkers with Mojave and High Sierra have this issue.
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*Marina Menendez*
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