Can’t. I’ve tried this too, but once PS freezes in a save, that’s it. You can continue to work and build that file but it won’t save it. You can copy all the groups and layers to a new file, but it will not save it. I pulled the plug on PS 2020 and went back to 2019 and for the first time ever in 19 PS pulled the same shenanigans 2 weeks ago costing me 4 hours of work. (Before you say what my wife did, “why are you going 4 hours without saving?!?!?” I don’t. I save about every 30 minutes, but like I said, PS will allow you to keep working while the file is saving or frozen. If you don’t watch the save percentage to know that it froze up, you just keep on going…. for 4 hours until you realize it froze at some point along the way.) Then you have to force quit PS and then it will not open back up until you do a complete computer shut down and restart.
I’d be interested to know how big y’all’s files are when PS crapped out on you.
With that said, here is my next theory. It’s a file size issue. I have very large files when this happens. in v2020 those files were around 12 gigs. This last time in v2019 the file size was about 20 gigs. After trashing unused layers and merging others to get the file back down to 14 gigs, she was humming along fine again. I’m wondering if the choke point for 2020 is 12-15 gigs and the choke point for 2019 is 20g. I’m planning on testing this theory this week some time. I’ll let you know what comes of it.
I too hope Adobe is paying attention to this. I fear they are not. I have received no response from them from any of the platforms I have contacted them through other than the tech support guy answering the phone who’s work around solution didn’t work.
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