Save As: Save button in dialog box grayed out

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Fancy_Orange
Jan 29, 2007
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I’m working in Photoshop 7 for Mac. When I clicked Save As on images that were created before today, the dialog box to name the new document came up, but no matter what I did, the Save button remained grayed out.
I had a number of programs open because I was altering and sending 2 or 3 images at a time by email. Everything was happening very slowly, so when I noticed this glitch, I closed everything and turned computer off. When I turned it back on and reopened Photoshop, it was just the same.
I’m stalled until I can fix this. Do I need to reinstall my images? or my Photoshop? or start over with a newer version of Photoshop?
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Buko
Jan 29, 2007
Trash your preferences

this is covered in the FAQs
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Fancy_Orange
Jan 30, 2007
Boku, thank you for your reply. I overlooked that question as a possible answer. However, I searched my harddrive and received a list of libraries and preferences for a lot of things, but none for Photoshop came up. In the Photoshop applications folder I found Presets, is that what I should trash?
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Ed_Hannigan
Jan 30, 2007
Do NOT trash your Presets folder.

Hold down Shift-Option-Command as you start up Photoshop and you should get a dialog asking if you want to reset to default preferences. This is covered in the FAQs and your Help files.
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Ram
Jan 30, 2007
<http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/312917.html>
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Fancy_Orange
Jan 31, 2007
Thank you all for pointing me in the right direction. Saga: I reset preferences. Didn’t work. Reinstalled Photoshop 7.0. Didn’t work. However, I then just tried to save the image in other places and found that if I backed out of the specific folder which was in my artworks folder, backed out of that which was in my documents folder, the save button came alive again. Maybe I had maxed out the amount I could put in those folders? Whew. I’m up and running again – I hope.
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Buko
Feb 1, 2007
It’s a permissions issue. you were most likely being saved from destroying your originals.

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