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Saving/File extension issue in Photoshop 21.1.0

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March 12, 2020
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Hello Community! First time posting here!

I'm using OSX Catalina and I'm running the latest version of Photoshop. I noticed that now when I go to Save for Web (Legacy) Photoshop brings up the Save dialog box and the entire file name and extension are selected (Untitled.jpg). So when I type a file name it deletes the file extension and will not add it "automagically" like before. Save As works fine and so does Save but I like my good old Save for Web! Any other solutions?

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Correct answer J453

"So when I type a file name it deletes the file extension and will not add it "automagically" like before. Save As works fine and so does Save but I like my good old Save for Web!"

This is fixed in the current version 22.5.1. If you rename the file without the extension, the correct extension for the file type selected in the Save For Web dialog is added when the file is saved.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Pardon my mistake, i was thinking of macOS Mojave.

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thehoff

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Recently, the "Save for Web dialoge was changed so that the ENTIRE filename and extension are selected by default. Previously, only the filename WITHOUT the extension was highlighted/selected. This change is a big productivity problem as we now have to move the cursor manually to deselect the extension and highlight the file name. Please change this back to the previous way this was done!

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Francesco Della Peruta

Community Expert

Hi, take a look here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/saving-file-extension-issue-in-photoshop-21-1-0/td-p/10978068

Tezzadee

Participant

Hi All,

Okay, I found this relpy from another user "Charles.Rose" Thanks Heaps Charles!!! And it worked for me!! Finally it worked !! So give it a try.

Here is what he did.

Under photoshop preferences/File
handling change the APPEND FILE EXTENSION dropdown from Always to Never, save, and then quit
photoshop. Reopen photoshop, and then in photoshop preferences/File handling change the APPEND FILE
EXTENSION dropdown from Never back to Always and the optionally check Use Lower Case. This seemed to
do the trick for me and now my extension appear as expected in the save image dialog boxes.

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pixelperfectcreative

Participating Frequently

I was hopeful but no luck. When I save as, it still highlights the extension so that when I type the file name it deletes the extension and I have to re-type it as well. Thanks for trying, it's more than Adobe is doing.

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mountart

Known Participant

Quite right. What is Adobe doing about it? Oh, right, they're too busy creating AI componants to put us hard working professionals out of a job, they don't have time to fix bugs that make are job harder!

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Tim220565408cut

Participant

Is it possible it could be this simple? I've been having the same problem, and after I checked this box in the Finder Preferences, it seems to have fixed it

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pixelperfectcreative

Participating Frequently

I have had this box checked forever and I still have the problem. Adobe doesn't give [cursing removed].

Derek Cross

Community Expert

pixelperfectcreative – Welcome to this friendly forum.

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mountart

Known Participant

For every item Adobe refuses to fix, we should be refunded $5 per month for every broken item thqt doesn't work

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J453Correct answer

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"So when I type a file name it deletes the file extension and will not add it "automagically" like before. Save As works fine and so does Save but I like my good old Save for Web!"

This is fixed in the current version 22.5.1. If you rename the file without the extension, the correct extension for the file type selected in the Save For Web dialog is added when the file is saved.

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SS ADMIN

Known Participant

Well, if you fixed it, you've broken it again. See the below results in Photoshop 23 (Mac OSX Monterey).

Happens every time. The file name was to be "test" and the extension in this example was to be .gif

Does the same with a different file that was to be .jpg

End result is you end up with Frankenstein.

Adobe and Apple seem to be in competition these days to see who can screw up things the most that use to work perfectly fine in the name of "product improvement"

Like most daily photoshop usuers, I have been suffering with the work-flow destroying issues of this bug for almost 2 years!

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studio515017225649

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I've don't have this problem at all with PS2021 on my 2019 Macbook Pro running Catalina - BUT - my older MacPro running Mojave with PS2021 just started doing this a couple of weeks ago - dropping the automatic additon of the extension when saving a file. In over 25 yrs using Adobe apps I've ever seen it before and not happy to see others have been seeing this for a while now. I came to look on here because I thought maybe I inadvertently changed a setting somewhere. Someone please let me know if I did, lol! Sad to see the lack of response from Adobe for such a brilliant and expensive product. Would love to have a solution sooner rather than over a year later?

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misagarcia

Participating Frequently

Hi Studio5150 and Everyone!

Thanks for posting. I had completely lost hope of this ever getting fixed, but as it turns out. Because of Studio5150's post on this thread. I went ahead and did the latest update today (22.5.1) and tested this issue just now and it's finally resolved. Took a long time, but finally adobe came thru.

Thanks for posting. Enjoy the updates guys.

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melp67457294

Participant

misagarcia - what OS and Mac are you using please?

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Jay5150

Participant

Adobe, please fix. It's super annoying.

YESTom

Participating Frequently

Hello,

ADOBE can you please fix this issue. It slows everyones workflow.

So annoying.

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scotw74004221

Inspiring

Photoshop 22.4.1 on Catalina – still broken. How much is this subscription per month?

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jg43511995

Participant

This is an issue across all Adobe products, not just Photoshop. All other apps that I use by Microsoft, Apple, etc. do not have this problem.

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FinleyHz

Participant

ummmm now its messed up on the PC version now Adobe added atleast 5 more clicks to the saving a jpeg version of a current ducument wtheck !? as someone who saves jpegs frequently for reviews and sharing and just simple versioning/ progress this will frustrate me EVERY time and slow mme down grrrrrrr

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