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November 30, 2022
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Photoshop missing "Default File Location" setting in preferences?

  • November 30, 2022
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Running photoshop 24.01 on windows and trying to overcome the ever irritating "save to cloud" options. Everyone is saying to go to  Preferences > File Handling > Default File Location and change that to local. The drop down that i'm seeing in posted images does not exist for me. Did i find a bug or did they move this? I'm about to lose my mind here.

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    Ranjisha Sengupta
    Ranjisha Sengupta
    Legend
    November 30, 2022

    Hi there,

     

    Thanks for reaching out. 

    What do you see currently? Can you share a screenshot with us? 

    This is the general workflow: Go to Photoshop > Preferences > File Handling > Default File Location > Set to 'On your computer and restart Photoshop. We still get this option on version 24.0.1

     

    You can try to reset the preferences of Photoshop using the steps mentioned here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#reset_preferences. Please back up your settings prior to resetting the preferences.

    You can check https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#BackupPhotoshoppreferences.

     

    Let us know how it goes.

    Thanks!

    Ranjisha

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    filand85185955
    Participant
    December 23, 2022

    I don't have that option as well and Photoshop is updated (screesnhots below). My Photoshop version is 24.1.0 20221206.r.166 be4691b x64 and my Windows version is 10 10.0.19045.2364.

     

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      filand85185955
      Participant
      December 23, 2022

      Could this be a corrupted preferences file issue? Resetting prefs is the first thing one usually does in such cases.


      Resetting the preferences worked. Thanks!

       

       

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