Unable to turn off new proportional scaling

[kristam70303484]

I would like to revert to the legacy transform behavior in photoshop. I have found how to turn it off here but I can not find the folder to place the plain text file.

I have a MacBook and this folder sequence does not appear on my computer.

//Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/

I have attached a few screenshots to show my folder system.

Am I simply looking in the wrong place?

[dejaliyah]

i know right they literally took like 20 years to fix this. they should have done that back in 1995 lol and now it's super annoying to relearn

[Florida Clay]

I will add my voice to the chorus.  Switching to proportional cropping, particularly without having a simple and obvious way to use freehand cropping instead when you need it, was a really, really, really, really bad idea!  And having to play with a config file to turn the !@#$% thing off . Come on guys!

[Russell Lord]

Great to see there's a re-solve for Adobe engineers "solving" problems users don't have – like scaling working consistently across all Adobe apps.

[dejaliyah]

Ok so i didn't read all the comments but based on what i read - there is no fix for this unless you downgrade but I figured out holding the SHIFT key while scaling does what it used to do when you didn't hold the shift key so looks like i'll just have to relearn all these new shortcuts.

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

Photoshop 20.0.6 now includes a setting in the Preferences so users don't have tio worry about making a PSUserConfig.txt file.

Look under Photoshop CC>Preferences>General (mac) or Edit>Preferences>Genertal (windows) and check Use Legacy Free Transform.