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February 9, 2021
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Save As and save are not working 2021 photoshop on mac

  • February 9, 2021
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I recently updated to the new Mac Big Sur and upon update completion, I was prompted to update Photoshop to th newest version.

Unfortunately, now when I open Photoshop I can no longer create new projects. If I hit File--> New nothing happens. I have found a way around this by going to Photoshop --> Preferences --> General --> Use legacy "New Document" Interface. While this works it's hardly preferred.

The real problem is that I cannot Save As new projects. I have resorted to duplicating already saved files and then opening the copy and editing that. This is becoming honestly infuriating and I have tried the following solutions to resolve the problem, but have had no luck:

  • Restarting Computer

  • Resetting Preferences

  • Uninstalling Photoshop

  • Switching back to the previous version of Photoshop

  • Giving Full Disk Access

Any ideas on what is causing this problem? Not too long ago my Photoshop was working fine. 

The biggest issue I have is when I click Save As nothing happens. No prompt, no spinning wheel, no freezing. Click it and it's as if I clicked NOTHING the same thing goes for the save button. 

Correct answer Kevin Stohlmeyer

Go to preferences/File Handling and check "Enable Legacy Save As".

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Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 9, 2022

Go to preferences/File Handling and check "Enable Legacy Save As".

Participant
November 14, 2022

this did not work

Participant
November 9, 2022

SAME issue.  Adobe?  I can't save-as and this is areal problem. No dialog window appears.

Participant
March 21, 2022

any resolve to this?? i'm having same issue. I literally can no longer Save or Save As anymore.