Save As and save are not working 2021 photoshop on mac

[Naji5F86]

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. 

[Ann23686396xl8b]

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

[Janae25795435t43e]

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

[kevin stohlmeyer · Accepted solution]

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

[lorid79065452]

this did not work

[lorid79065452]

I have 100 photos I've edited and done work on, I can't save anything. How do I keep from losing hours of labor?

[teenboy]

same lol i have 12 projects that im working out and find out that my files cannot be saved, nor save as. the other little work arounds ended up freezing my photoshop and now im here, trying to see if its worth a hard reset and lose all my projects. 😞