@arconz I laughed out loud at that.  "We've talked it over and... ... ..." "Yes? And?" "We've talked it over and we've decided... ...that you are our users." ... View more

I agree. Adobe needs to a better communication policy.  To be fair, they responded, relatively quickly, to the feedback here and I know for a fact some of the users on this site have tested a beta version of PS where the tool works as it should... We were told in December that a fix was coming, but wouldn't be ready in time for the December update... and now we've heard nothing for a month an a half.  There has to be a better way for them to keep us updated on the status of these things. ... View more

This is the most confusing part to me, because it means that whatever the issue *is* it can be "solved" by using a specific name... which means it *technically works* (the best kind of works) but yet doesn't actually work. I would pay money to talk to an Adobe Dev to get some BTS info on this one. ... View more

I have some friends who use PS on Windows and when I have complained about this in the past they seem to not know what I'm talking about, but I should ask again. I did ask some developers to speculate on this on the MacRumors forum. A few devs agreed that this sounds like a situation where the program is trying to overwrite a file which is already open (or locked for editing) so it makes sense that a copy is created... Which normally means saving a copy, deleting the old one, and renaming the new one, (so that no work is lost in the event of a power failure, system crash, etc.)  However, I don't know if that fully explains why "it just works" when appending " copy" to the filename. Personally, I'd be fascinated by a technical explanation for why this happens, but Adobe seems pretty quite on this. ... View more

Nope. Still broken. If you're saving a flattened file it works as expected. But if you're using Save As to flatten the file (removing layers to save as a JPEG) it still saves a copy. Photoshop 22.0.1, Big Sur 11.0.1 ... View more

@Travis Gray I'm in. How can I help? ... View more

So... do we just all go post on their FB wall so that they know how annoying this is?  I notice PS has no "provide feedback" menu option. I'd happily report this every time I used Save As if I had a way to contact someone who actually was listening ... View more

@Oliver Woodcock My best... er... guess... is that Adobe has decided that the "Export As..." feature is what everyone is "supposed" to use now. (I've given up an remapped cmd+shift+S to Export As...) Because that functions properly. Of course, this is only helpful for people saving things as .jpg, .png, .gif, and .svg. It doesn't help anyone working with .tiff, .pdf, or even .psd. I very much have the sense that Adobe is making decisions about how it thinks things should work, and then afterwards discovering that their userbase uses Photoshop in different ways than they expected. If only they had a way to poll their audience, or ask users about usecases as they developed new features... oh well. Maybe someday we'll have the technology to do that. ... View more

Thank you Rishu for the confirmation. (I'm not particularly thrilled with this change, but I appreciate your quick and informative response.) ... View more

Thanks Jeffrey, this was helpful. Does this mean the old "weight" option for lines is gone for good then? ... View more

Hi Jeffrey, thanks for the reply. The gear only lets me choose a thickness of 3px. Is it no longer possible to make thicker lines in Photoshop? ... View more

Hi Rosa, thanks for the reply, I don't see any options for making a line thicker/wider in the Properties tab. Please advise. ... View more

@wayne_heywood I tested PS 21.4.2 on the Big Sur beta a few weeks ago and the problem still existed. I haven't had a chance to try 22.0.0 yet. ... View more

This is very interesting to me... because Adobe has claimed that it is an issue with Apple/Catalina... yet other apps (including Adobe apps) work as expected... and even Photoshop works as expected when files don't need to be flattened (or " copy" is added to the name.) ... View more

Problem is not resolved by the steps mentioned in the article. Updated to 21.2.4 and the problem still remains. Updated to 22.0.0 and problem still remains.    This completely breaks Dynamic Linking which I used to use for all of my projects. ... View more

Major bug from 21.x.x still exists in 22.0.0   Steps to reproduce: Create a document with layers. Use the Save As... command to save as a JPG. Make changes to document. Click "Save As..." save as JPG using the same name. OS will ask if overwriting the file. Click "Overwrite."  PS will ask about jpg settings. File is saved with " copy" appended to name, it does not overwrite file as indicated. This bug appears anytime a file with layers is being saved without layers. This includes PNG, TIFF, and even PSD files.  This bug breaks dynamic linking. And causes a lot of stress and anxiety.   This bug also has its own bug. If you name your file "Untitled-1 copy.jpg" and attempt to save over it, the file will be overwritten as the program warns. Basically adding " copy" to your filename causes Photoshop to work the way it has worked up until version 21.x.x. This causes a problem for anyone who expect the app to not overwrite files, even when it tells you it will. (Which should be no one, but this is the internet.) ... View more

Just FYI, version 22.0.0 does not fix this bug. If everyone here would take some time to file a bug report and/or post a new forum thread, a few hundred posts about it would be wonderful. ... View more

I made a video to explain this issue to friends a few months ago.   Has anyone tried this on Big Sur yet? I have the beta running on my MacBook Air, might install Photoshop later to test it out.   ... View more

A few other people have mentioned this, but I finally did it this week and everything "works as expected... kinda" for me now. (This won't help if you're working with TIFF images.) My solution: Go to File -> Export -> Export Preferences... Set the export pref to whatever you normally would use. For me, I set it to JPG with a quality of 10. Go to Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts... Remove they keyboard shortcut for Save As... and map Shift+Command+S to the Quick Export option. YMMV, but this has helped me. Thank you to those who have mentioned it on various posts. ... View more

I'm happy this seems to work for you, but this doesn't fix the issue for me. When saving a multi-layered PSD as a flat jpg, the "save a copy" is required to be checked, that's photoshops way of reminding you that the jpg won't have layers. And anytime the "save a copy" checkbox is checked, photoshop now appends "copy" to the filename. (Unless the filename already has a "copy" at the end, in which case ==>This is new ==> photoshop now has a secondary dialog box asking if you are sure you want to overwrite your file. But again, only if you have appended the word "copy" to your filename. At this point I'm convinced they will never fix this behavior because they have gone out of their way to make it work differently than it used to.  You can still overwrite flat files, but anything with layers requires copies. Our only hope now is for one of us to become a CEO at Adobe and fire the person(s) responsible for this decision.  ... View more

I don't know enough about Photoshop actions, but would it be possible to make an action which would flatten the file, save it, and then unflatten it automatically? ... View more

Johan, Currently Photoshop refuses to overwrite files (unless they have the word "copy" in the title.) Here's my process. I open up "Poster Design.psd" which has layers. I save the file as "Poster For Print.jpg" as a jpeg file without layers. This works as expected. I realize I have the date in the poster wrong and I misspelled a word. I open up "Poster Design.psd" which has layers. I change the date and fix my spelling error. I choose "Save As..." and tell Photoshop to save as a jpeg file without layers. I tell it to name the file "Poster For Print.jpg" Photoshop tells me a file already exists with this name and asks if I want to overwrite it. I tell Photoshop "Yes, overwrite the file." Photoshop then saves the file as "Poster For Print copy.jpg" The file was not overwritten. And if I'm not careful, I send my client the wrong image. I have tested this with jpg, png, tif, and psd documents. The same behavior happens each time. The use case is I'm trying to save a flattened version of my psd in a different format, replacing an older save in that format, while keeping my psd as a separate file with layers for future revisions if necessary. Right now, if I flatten my image in Photoshop, the program will correctly overwrite the file without adding the word " copy" to the filename. This means I either need to rename my file to remove the word copy (after deleting the old version) or I have to flatten my image, save the file in the required format, and then flatten the image so I can save the PSD. And here's why I know it's a bug. If I repeat my process described above, but call my file "Poster For Print copy.jpg" Photoshop will overwrite the image, just like it says it will. I'm more than willing to provide a video of this issue, if you'd like to see my process. ... View more

I'm still experiencing this problem on macOS 10.15.4 while using Photoshop 21.1.1 It's causing a lot of lost time on my projects and is also simply annoying. Photoshop will happily overwrite PSD files, or any filetype that supports layers, but it always makes a copy when using Save As... to flatten an image. It's easy to replicate this issue. Take a new file and add a layer or two. Save it to any file format. Make a small change and then choose "Save As..." select the same filetype and uncheck the "layers" button (this might be unchecked by default if the filetype doesn't support layers. [Note: filetypes like PNG and JPEG do not accept layers.]) When you click "save" you'll get a warning that Photoshop will overwrite the image. But Photoshop will not overwrite the image, it makes a new file that a[[ends the word " copy" to the end of it. In old versions of photoshop it was easy to make a change to a PSD and then use "Save As" to make a new flat version of the file, and overwrite an old version. (Presumably because something in the image needed to be changed or fixed.) It no longer works the way I expect it to. Also, the program no longer works the way photoshop tells you it's going to work either. All I really want, now that I've been dealing with this for 6 months, is to know that someone on the Photoshop team is aware of this issue and that oneday, even if it's 100 years in the future, someone will fix it. Honestly, that's how low my bar is right now. Ideally, I'd hear that a fix is waiting in the wings for 21.1.2 or 21.1.1.1.1 but at this point, I'll sleep happily just knowing you read this message. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go away from my computer for a while. ... View more

That's okay Sophia, I forgive you. 🙂 ... View more

I've been encountering the issue anytime I have layers in my document and am using the Save-As feature to flatten the image to a JPEG, PNG, or TIFF ... View more

I got excited, but I'm not seeing a change. 😞 ... View more

I'm holding my breath in anticipation as the update downloads... ... View more