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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Dominic Forbes

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Same here since my client upgraded their Macs to Catalina. Previously working print based workflow.

Working file is .psd layered FILE.psd. Save as flattened .tif for importing into final InDesign document results in FILE.tif

Any further changes to FILE.psd I would then do Save as FILE.tif again, this used to overwrite the FILE.tif with the changes.

I now get a warning "do you want to overwrite"? Saying yes DOESNT OVERWRITE THE FILE, I now have two files. FILE.tif and FILE COPY.tif

If I make further edits and try the same sequence it now asks if I want to overwrite FILE COPY.TIF despite the file name in the dialog box being FILE.tif. This time it will successfully overwrite FILE COPY.tif.

Is this some kind of Catalina "feature" to avoid accidentally saving over files? It's certainly unexpected and adding frustration to my workflow as I now have to keep track of extra files with the COPY added to the filename, this also screws up InDesign links.

As the OP says, this is really bad for workflow and breaks behaviour that has been consistent for years.

Am using PS 21.1