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Auto-save on file close: HOW DO I TURN THIS OFF

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
February 12, 2020
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Extremely frustrating new 'feature' auto-saves my files when I close them, without asking if I want to save. I cannot find an option in preferences to turn this off.

To reproduce, save a file to the adobe cloud then make a series of destructive changes and close the file window with the X icon.

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Correct answer Drop Mic Shadow

Hi, I had this exact same problem and frustration. I found that you can revert to a previous version via the Adobe Cloud interface.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/manage-cloud-documents-photoshop.html#Viewversionhistoryofaclouddocument

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RaijinStudio

Participant

This was one of the most bone-headed decision by Adobe and the QOL went a step backwards with this "feature," especially now that we all have to pay a monthly subscription

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Lumigraphics

Legend

SO just save locally. Problem solved.

FWIW, Apple has (configurable) auto-save as well, with built-in versioning and revert features. And pretty much all iOS apps work this way, they don't require manual save, and that seems to be working just fine. I believe Android is the same. Billions of cell phones.

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YihPiao

Participant

To me, the cloud storage 20GB actually no different with 1TB, because it is useless if the auto-save cannot be turned off. It assumes that every step we did is finalized and no way for us to revert back. Obviously most users don't like the forced auto-save feature, and I can't see any difficulty if Adobe want to make it as an option so that user can choose to enable or disable it. Maybe it's one of the way Adobe control the overall cloud storage usage.

WeAreBorg

Participant

I agree, I work on different workstations so I want to use the Cloud-service for my files, but this is extremely annoying just mindboggling that Adobe haven't made it possible to turn this off.

Brotherwolf

Inspiring

I had this same thing happening to me. I flattened a file to reduce it's size and save JPG and when I was finished I just closed the file and I saw the progress save bar and I was like Who TF told you to save anything! Fortunately you can revert to older versions. Pheew...

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rcurren

Participant

This is so infuriating. WT actual F.

LukaLu

Participating Frequently

+1 for this problem, really. I almost had a heart attack yesterday until I found out that you can revert.

Reverting is an excellent feature, but auto-save on documet close without asking is really really frustrating. Please solve this.

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ronaldh52547591

Participant

They need to just simply turn it off!! Just turn off autosave! How hard can that be?!! Clearly most of photoshop users don't like it!!

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xaxer

Participating Frequently

100% agree with the OP.

This needs to be OPTIONAL.

If the psd file lives in a dropbox folder - it doesn't auto-save (thank goodness).

This is NOT google docs!

It's an application on my computer with a specific save command.

It should ONLY save when I explicitly ask it to.

For those that want this - make it an option. But don't force it on the rest of us.

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Anonymous

"AFAIK, this is how cloud services work everywhere. It's what people expect."

^ Lmao

But I do have a soultion actually, just download this script:

https://mega.nz/file/YVFQwJpR#att_ma1qf-r6NJzbmTscD04M6XG_FF6_SwNRJ2d2u54

and navigate to File > Scripts > Browse and open it. It's kind of a hassle to run this everytime I know but this seems to be the only solution for this very frustrating problem as of right now.

D Fosse

Community Expert

You do know that cloud saving is optional? You can save locally to your machine just as it always worked.

Apologies if I'm telling you what you already know perfectly well, it just seems unclear from your post ("Wait a second, I'm using Photoshop not a 'cloud service'.")

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araygfxAuthor

Participating Frequently

It's fairly straight-forward, if I am using Photoshop (the application) the expectation is that my files do NOT auto-save. If the option to auto-save is present because of an update, the expectation is that I can configure the application NOT to auto-save.

Creative Cloud seems to totally break that expectation. I will forward feedback to Adobe directly because from these posts it appears there is no way to store data in the cloud and have auto-save disabled.

Thanks for the replies guys.