Thank you for the response, but this is just speculation on your part. With all due respect, I'm looking to know what functions of Photoshop require Sonoma, or what in general was optimized that requires Sonoma.  ... View more

The only thing I can think of is that sometimes if I try and move a file I'll get an error that the file is in use. This is a Windows bug that I've never figured out. But why would Adobe Photoshop delete that file if it can't save in the droplet? Why would Adobe PS cause a file to get permanently deleted? ... View more

I'm surprised nobody here has been able to answer this. What specifically requires Sonoma and why did I get that warning? My experience is that there is nothing in the new OS that I need. Most new OS features are there to provide Apple with new ways to sell you something. With Sonoma, the print settings bugs were enough to keep me away.      ... View more

I made the droplet. I've been using it for a decade, but this is new. It's starting to happen regularly now.    The droplet over-rides the save as JPG with a new name "filename-web.jpg". The first save just saves.    The error in the log shows this:    Start Droplet File: "E:\Octopus 16x20.tif" Error: Could not save "Octopus 16x20.tif" because the file is already in use or was left open by another application. Use 'Chooser' to select a printer and try again. (-45) End Droplet   To be sure, the file is not open. When we run the droplet, the file is closed. Sometimes Windows will throw the same error, thinking a file is open when it's not. But if you can't save a file it should just close, not disappear.    What is sure is that somehow the file disappears and does not appear in the trash can. So this is a critical PS error. PS is destroying data. When this error occurs the file in question completely disappears.  ... View more

No, I surely don't have rich tools turned on. But thanks. Back when Linkedin Learning was still Lynda, one author did a great tutorial that was really funny on how to disable rich tool tips. Super snarky.    Thanks for the tip on the home screen. I have it turned off though.    At this point I got past it, but I literally spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get rid of it and disable it this morning and wanted to vent, as well as create a thread for others to find.  thanks ... View more

I finally got fedup with not being able to open an image, and clicked on "get started". PS then opened the image, but gave me a little tutorial popup on how to rotate images. I then opened another image and it happened again. Third image it stopped.    I really cannot believe that PS did this. It wouldn't be super bad if you could click "no thank you" and it would leave you alone, but with that button broken, it's just absolutely an obnoxious thing.  ... View more

Thanks. Indeed. It was that. It was an action being run in an action so I missed it.  Solved. Thanks ... View more

after writing this I can confirm, it's multiple actions, and it's both the actions and the droplets. Always stops on unsharp mask and wants me to confirm with "OK". This started after the 25.7 update. ... View more

Thank you. Very nice set of tutorials ... View more

Thanks. That was helpful. It worked fine once I found that menu again.  ... View more

I'm not applying any settings. I can't find them. They've all been moved and this tool has been so radically changed I don't even recognize it. Where is black and white? Where are those settings now? I can't find them.  I feel like a newbie, but I've been using Illustrator for 20 years and suddenly it's unrecognizeable.    ... View more

I have made some progress, but this is still not resolved, and I surely can't be the only one to experience this.  I looked around on the interwebs, and I watched some Youtube videos. One thing helped, and it was this:    Go to the droplet, right click, select properties, select the "compatibility" tab, and change the droplet to "run as administrator". Like this:  But that's not enough. You then need to navigate to:  C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2024\photoshop.exe, right click on the exe and select properties.  Now you also set this to "run as administrator on the compatibility tab:    The droplet now runs. However, now every time I use the droplet I get the popup message from microsoft saying this program is from an unknown publisher and do I want to continue.    Also, every time I launch Photoshop now, I get the same message, and EVERY SINGLE TIME I TRY TO OPEN A FILE I GET THIS MESSAGE NOW:    Again, I'm on 25.0.2   If I open PS 2021, then I don't get that message on launching PS, but I do get the "droplet can't communicate with Photoshop message".  Please help. This is making PS completely unusable.        ... View more

This machine did in fact have beta at one time, but it's been long gone and we've had updates since then. I also tried making the droplet again and running the new droplet and I get the same error.  We also tried installing PS 2022 and running it with that version open but now get the same error. Only Windows. We have several other Macs running the latest PS and no issues.  ... View more

Thanks Kevin! Much appreciated. That's it. But for the crop tool, after your suggestion, I found this, and it reverts the crop tool to the legacy...  Those two things were the answer. thanks!        ... View more

And like this. It seems these resize or crop tools are constantly appearing and they didn't used to. Is there a way to get rid of them?   ... View more

Appreciate the help Michael, but I am convinced this is an Adobe issue. I'm not doing anything crazy or special. Sequence settings and camera settings are the same. It's a high end camera. It's a new laptop (M1), with 64GB RAM, and video is off of a USB drive with 1TB free. I've never had issues with it. The sound skipping out is new and there's no reason it should be skipping. Even after doing a full render it does it sometimes.    thanks ... View more

Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 16-bit - Stereo Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo I can't see anywehre that the settings are different. They're both at 48000 Hz.    All the audio is off of a Fuji GFX-100 camera. I've been doing a fair bit of editing lately and this just started happening, but nothing has changed in the file formats I'm using.  ... View more

I'm getting tons of audio drops while previewing a video I'm working on. The audio is there, but as I listen, it will cut out for a few seconds here and there randomly. If I stop and go back, it plays fine, but then later on in new places it drops audio again.    the audio and video are mov files from a Fuji GFX-100. Even with the entire video pre rendered, I'm getting random audio drops everywhere. It's super annoying. Not sure if this happens after rend or not.... still checking.    Adobe Premier 24.0.0, Mac Ventura 13.4, Macbook Pro, Apple M1 Max, 64GB of RAM, with no other apps open.    ... View more

Thank you. That was something else.  ... View more

thanks for your help.  ... View more