photoshop file saving

[photographybydavidmiller]

Good evening.

I have a technical photoshop 2022 question. When I previously went to save an edited image file, I would see the file name - 3O7A4256. I'd add aCR2 or some other self-made code to the end and it would save as 3O7A4256aCR2.jpg. Now when I go to save and rename the file it appears as 3O7A4256.jpg and I need to manually erase the .jpg before adding my self-made code.

Can you tell me why this is suddenly happening?

Can you tell me how to restore it like it was?

It's very annoying and time consuming.

Thanks in advance.

[Bojan Živković]

Saving dialogue looks like below screenshot? And it does not save as filenameaCR2.jpg?

[photographybydavidmiller]

It previously looked like that. Now it looks like this:

[Bojan Živković]

I believe this is change in Windows OS, not Photoshop. Uncheck in Windows Explorer > View > File name extensions and that should do the trick but... you won't see file extension in Win Explorer.

Hovewer, if you place cursor before .jpeg or if you delete .jpeg and add something like aCR2, everything will work fine, .jpeg or .jpg will be added automatically.

[D Fosse]

I think you're going about this the wrong way. You should not delete the extension before adding to the filename - just add it before the extension.

A file always needs to have an extension, but you probably had Windows set to hide extensions. You got away with it because the extension is normally added automatically by having a file type selected - but this can go wrong, and then you end up with an unreadable file.

This is where you hide file extensions in Windows. With this setting unchecked, extensions are visible everywhere, including Windows Explorer. I'd recommend always having extensions visible:

[Bojan Živković]

I will recommend to follow @D Fosse recommendation even if I never saw any issue when deleting extension or saving with do not show extension. He is more advanced and knowlegable on this topic, at least.

[D Fosse]

Thanks, Bojan, I hope I didn't come across as a besserwisser...I'm known to do that, so I probably did... 😉

But we've seen some problems that can happen with hidden extensions. Plus, always knowing what file format you're dealing with should be an advantage in most situations.

[Bojan Živković]

I haven't saved too many files in this way. I know who D Fosse is. I never saw bad or missleading advice from that profile and I can clearly understand that you are more knowledgable on many topics. I can not imagine that D Fosse is commenting just to kill time for something he is not sure.