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New Saving Method is driving me mad!

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
January 9, 2023
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App version: 24.1.0

OS: Windows 11

The new saving method is driving me out of my mind!

Save As - saves the file but does it continue working on that new file - no?!?! Instead, you continue working on the original file!!!

If this isn't a bug, which genius decided this was a good idea????

It's seriously driving me mad! Is there no way around this? I read somewhere it was to avoid lost work due to overwriting... I've NEVER lost any work the original way, but have lost several hours of work since this change has been made!!!

Seriously, fuming!

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Correct answer Kevin Stohlmeyer

Have you tried resetting your PS preferences? Go to Preferences/General and click the reset button. Note: This will reset your choices for File Handling, but that may be moot at this point. Worth seeing if the behavoir changes when its reset.

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BigRickUKAuthor

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Resetting preferences has worked - thanks!

I'll try changing my preferences one at a time and see if anything specific makes this start happening again.

If it does, if I can replicate it, I'll update this thread.

Looks like I'm sorted for now though, thank you!!!

davescm

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@BigRickUK When you reset preferences, you reset more than just the user settings available in Edit>Preferences. You also reset some internally used settings. These are recorded every time Photoshop closes and can become corrupt if Photoshop does not shut down correctly. That is why resetting them is often effective in addressing unusual behaviour.

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BigRickUKAuthor

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Thanks @davescm - I've used Photoshop for about 20 years now and never had to reset preferences before, so it wasn't something I would have considered... I would have uninstalled and reinstalled as a next step...

However, what you've mentioned re. Photoshop not closing down properly has been an issue - I've posted about it separately a while ago - quite a few updates ago - it regularly had to be force-closed via task manager rather than just exiting normally...

I wasn't the only person experiencing that issue, but I can't remember needing to do that for a few days, so they could be linked - I'll keep an eye on both.

Thanks again.

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BigRickUKAuthor

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Local - all synced to GDrive but I always save locally.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

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Have you tried resetting your PS preferences? Go to Preferences/General and click the reset button. Note: This will reset your choices for File Handling, but that may be moot at this point. Worth seeing if the behavoir changes when its reset.

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BigRickUKAuthor

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I've just got to Photoshop again this morning and it's doing the same already.

The only changes I've made are shown below - and setting the grid to 10%

I'm going to reset the preferences again and give it more time between changes - hopefully the default settings won't drive me mad in the meantime.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

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Where are you saving to? Local, External HD, Server, Cloud-synced service?

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BigRickUKAuthor

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Nope - it's still the same when running as administrator.

I've also tried all combinations while "Do not append "copy" to filename when saving a copy" is ticked and unticked - no change.

It could be worth noting that this also happens with new documents, not just existing documents - when I create a new file, it's obviously called Untitled-1, when I save as, the working file that's open remains Untitled-1 rather than the new saved file.

It's good to hear that this definitely sounds like a bug at least and not a new feature!

Kevin Stohlmeyer

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Long shot but try this - Go to your Photoshop application .exe file - right-click and choose "Run as Administrator". Then see if the save behavior changes when you use Save As.

Gixxxa75

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Mines behaves as you would want it on windows 10, is it a windows 11 issue?

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BigRickUKAuthor

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Thanks to both @CShubert and @Kevin Stohlmeyer for your replies.

Enable legacy "Save As" was already ticked, Save As to Original Folder was not ticked.

However, I have just tried all combinations of those two tick boxes and it continues to leave the original file open after Save As with a different filename.

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Frank24936568mmrn

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Thanks to both @CShubert and @Kevin Stohlmeyer for your replies.
Enable legacy "Save As" was already ticked, Save As to Original Folder was not ticked.
However, I have just tried all combinations of those two tick boxes and it continues to leave the original file open after Save As with a different filename with locksmith.

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