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Save changes made to my current Workspace?

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
November 25, 2016
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Workspace is an integral part in any designers workflow. Its the bread and butter of our every day as we move between platforms and screen setups. Workflows develop, change, adapt and evolve at pace with our own development as designers. Its therefore a vital dependency that we are able to change and modify workspaces.

Maybe I am retarded but I cannot find the Workspace manager. There simply is no option to save the changes I made to the current Workspace. The only option for me is to make a new workspace with the same name, try to remeber which workspace is the old one and the new one and then delete the old one. That is not a viable solution.

Window > Workspace > New Workspace.

This is my Photoshop CC Workshop window: no manager?!

This is my Illustrator workshop window: Manager exist.

I have a suggestion, maybe they should try something like this!

*Illustrator HQ* (phone rings)

*Illustrator HQ*: Yo dog, its Illustrator. Waddap?

*Photoshop HQ*: Yo homeboy, its Photoshop

*Illustrator HQ*: Yo man!

*Photoshop HQ*: I see you got some fancy bling-bling in ya UX flow man, some crazy workspace manager. Whats up with that?

*Illustrator HQ*: That some top-notch usability yo. Yo want it? I send you my trippin wireframes and design sketches so you guys can do it too!.

*Photoshop HQ*: Sweet bro. U know, we should do this more often man. Like colaborate, you feelin it?

*Illustrator HQ*: Sweet man, lets do that. I hit ya up on Mondays and we can get going k?

...

Or are these develop teams rival enemies or what?

Surrogate Media

Participating Frequently

I completely understand. Premiere has "Save Changes to This Workspace" but not Photoshop. It's always been unnerving to me that there are continuity errors accross their softwares like this, but hopefully they will get this figured out.

frank90125

Participant

I came upon this post with the same problem in InDesign - how can I keep "NameOfMyWorkspace" current when I make changes and figured out how to do this - very easy. The key was in Per Bernstein's comment. Here's the workflow:

Starting with "NameOfMyWorkspace" selected, with changes that have been made since it was last updated.

> From the workspace dropdown at top right, select New Workspace

> In the Name: box, enter the name of the currently selected workspace (in this example, "NameOfMyWorkspace").

> Make sure all the "Capture" selections are checked (so all changes are included).

> Click OK.

> You will get the following: "A workspace with that name already exists. Do you want to replace it?".

> Click OK.

> Voila, the current workspace has been updated!.

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dngad

Participating Frequently

Yes the solution exists. Just not elegant at all and time is wasted doing it this way. In LR changes to importation presets can be updated. This should be uniform between all applications.

JJMack

Community Expert

Workspaces seems to have two states. Where you saved palettes and things like keyboard shortcuts if the options were user when you saved your workspace. That is the workspace Default state and where all will reset to when you reset the workspace. There is also a modifies workspace state that is the work spaces current state. When you while working in the workspace you move some palette Photoshop seems to record a modified workspace and this will be the state of the workspace when you switch between workspaces open and close Photoshop etc. You can reset the workspace to reposition to you default saved location. In my Photoshop I seen to see Photoshop uses two folders for your workspaces sates. Make sure you user ID has the correct permissions for thes folders.

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JJMack

Community Expert

What would you call the workspace menu then? I only use Photoshop but I would expect you would need each application to have different workspaces and you should be able to manage existing workspaces and create new workspaces in each application. To be able to use any workspace name you want. Any workspace name I use get put in list of workspace names.

Why would I want other application workspaces in my Photoshop workspace menu. Why would a want a centralized workspace manager where I can not develop new workspaces for an application because the application is not part of the manages so you can set up a new workspace. If one only uses Photoshop why show other application Adobe default work for other applications all they would see is some name they will never see the workspaces or have no need for.

I'm happy with the workspace menu the only change I feel may be approbate would be to change some items listed descriptive names. For example New Workspace... would be better named Save Workspace...