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Save a Copy automatically checked

New Here ,
Dec 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020

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Does anyone know how to keep this from happening? It started doing a couple versions ago, and it is driving me mad! Any Help would me much appreciated.

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Dec 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020

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'Save as' now insists on it being a copy. Instead of <filenam.jpg> it insists on saving it as <filename copy.jpg> creating two files. If you are editing jpegs for a website it screws up all the links. For the past 30 years you were able to overwrite the old file maintaining the integrity of the filenames. Who decided this was a good idea? And why?

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Dec 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020

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»Who decided this was a good idea? And why?«

Who decided that what was a good idea?

Please provide meaningful information and post meaningful screenshots. 

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Dec 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020

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Also: You are aware that editing jpgs is a bad idea because of the lossy nature of (conventional) jpg-compression? 

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New Here ,
Dec 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020

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Any file I do this with has it checked, I can open a pdf I made in photoshop and try to do save as, it has the save as copy checked. say I have a design and I want most of the layout to stay the same I just need to swap a logo, say I have to do that 10 times, I want it to be like it was I save it with a different file name and not have to physically every time have to uncheck the damn box for save a copy, I want the file I have open to change the name and not remain as the original version. It slows down my workflow tremendously!!!

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Dec 12, 2020 Dec 12, 2020

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Your description seems useless to me – a pdf created in Photoshop can be different things … did you save with »Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities« checked for example? 

Please explain the process in a meaningful manner and post the requested screenshots already. 

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Please provide some menaingful information. 

Are you trying to save a layered image in a format that does not support layers, like jpg? 

Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Channels, Options Bar, …) visible? 

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From a multi layered PSD artwork I wish to switch layers on or off to save the different layers as single JPG files. Finishing up with a sequence of single JPGs. You could always save a PSD or EPS or TIFF as a differet file type by using File/Save as. It would save the new JPG by over-writing the old JPG without question. It may be the Apple OS that's stopping this as in Photoshop 'File/Save as' insists on saving it as a copy (JPG) and refuses to overwrite the old JPG. Doesn't really require screen shots to understand.

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Dec 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020

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For someone apparently working in a visual medium you seem pretty disinclined to actually show what you are talking about … 

 

When I select jpg in the Save As-dialog for a layered image I get no » copy« added to the name but »As a copy« naturally gets checked. 

saveJpgCopy.jpg

 

So once again: Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Channels, Options Bar, …) visible? 

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I was not editing jpegs I was saving layers as JPGs. Been doing it for years and it always worked. Very quick to do and productive. I first created a high res PSD to add and manage the layers. Then saved each layer as separate JPG for a website. Nothing wrong with the quality of the final JPGs, just that it would only save as a copy and adds the word "copy" on the filename, which has to then be manually removed or it ruins the links in the website. ie you can no longer save a JPG by overwriting the old JPG without it calling it a copy.

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»I was not editing jpegs«

You specifically wrote 

»If you are editing jpegs for a website«

so it seems understandable that I assumed you were talking about actually editing jpgs. 

 

»Then saved each layer as separate JPG for a website.«

Have you considered using File > Export > Layers to Files or a custom Script to create the jpgs? 

 

Anyway, seems there is a lengthy bug report-thread on what sounds like your issue: 

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop/photoshop-saving-copy-not-saving-over-jpg-fil...

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Screenshot 2020-12-11 at 17.11.30.png

 

As you can see it's the same as your own screen grab. < Save as > (because I'm saving a PSD as a JPG) has "As a copy" already ticked and greyed out, so there doesn't appear to be a choice.

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You don’t seem to fully appreciate what you are doing – »As a copy« is obviously unavoidable when you are saving a jpg from an image that cannot be a jpg (what with having Layers, …). 

 

The bug seems to happen »after« that dialog; namely in that the replace-order in not honored and the new file’s name is amended without/despite user-input.  

This can apparently be avoided with a Script, but it seems to be a legitimate bug indeed. 

And one that has annoyed a lot of people already … 

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Rubbish. It used to save a layered file in any format you wished. PDS layered files, if saved as a TIFF or JPG Photoshop would simply ask if it's OK to flatten the file. It would leave the PSD layered file untouched.

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»Rubbish. It used to save a layered file in any format you wished. PDS layered files, if saved as a TIFF or JPG Photoshop would simply ask if it's OK to flatten the file. It would leave the PSD layered file untouched.«

You seem to be trying to contradict something I did not claim. 

Obviously the layered file stays as it is when saving a copy off of it, but »As a copy« got checked automatically when a format was chosen that did not support the Layers even in older versions. 

You may just not have paid it any mind. 

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Dec 12, 2020 Dec 12, 2020

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I had access to Photoshop CS2 today and did a quick test … and naturally »As a Copy« gets checked automatically when selecting JPEG as the format in the Save As-dialog with a layered active document. 

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There is no such command "As a copy" There is "Save" or Save as" - 'Save' if you want to save the current open file, 'Save as' if you want to save the open file as a different name or format. It's always been that way. yesterday my computer was ADDING the word 'copy' when I was trying to update and over-write the old file.

It was doing what I wanted but messing up the file naming protocol in the process. This morning AdobeCC decided to automatically update Photoshop. I allowed it and tried again. It's behaving normally after the update. I think there was a bug in the Adobe program file OR the Apple OS but it seems to be fixed now.

So thank you once again for your help. It's fixed itself.

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»There is no such command "As a copy" There is "Save" or Save as"«

I did not claim there was a command »As a Copy«; the Save As-dialog has a checkbox for »As a Copy« (and it’s been there a long time) and it gets checked automatically when one selects a format that does not support the active document’s properties (like jpg for a file with layers or jpg for a 16bit image).  

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Thank you for the link to the "lengthy bug-report thred". That is exactly what is happening. I was beginning to think I was losing my mind! As I said I have been using Adobe software since the 1980s. It's a delight to use. Just an aside... there are still issues like Adobe InDesign launches and you hit Cmd+N and it has always opened the New File dialogue box. At least it has since the year 2000 when I switched from QuarkXpress. This year, in the keyboard shortcut list it says the New shortcut is (Cmd+N) and it doesn't work. Also Open File (Cmd+O) doesn't work.  It works in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator but it's broken in InDesign. This is the reason why I said, "Who decided this was a good idea and Why?" Adobe seem quick to develop software updates and most are really useful, but they take months to sort out the bugs. Can I just say thank you very much for doing your best to help me. Time for a beer!

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