In past versions of PS I’ve been able to do a save as and the click on copy. PS would then add the word copy. CS has the same feature but when you click on save as copy nothing happens in the filename. Is this a flaw or a setting issue?
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Same here,what makes it even more annoying is that when I record a save-action where I don’t want "copy" added to the file name it does it with every execution of the action, no matter what.
7.0 You click on Save as Copy and it would put the word copy on the filename so that it would not overwrite the original.
CS You click on Save as Copy and nothing happens but if you hold down the ALT key while also clicking on File then sliding down to save as you then get the word copy in the filename. (Which as far as I can tell is not documented anywhere in the manual)
Hmmmm, Which is the better behavior???
Thanks to all for the "work around". NOT a good solution but until the BUG is fixed its better then nothing.
NOT having the word copy put on every file I want to save as is the better behaviour, IMO. I HATED that (as did many posters to the feature request forum).
oddly ps7 did never force me to save everything as copy. while at least when saving as TGA there is even that little warning triangle on the dialogue box, stating that it has(!) to be saved as copy. I’d really like to know what sense that makes.
Yes, that is of course correct, but I actually want to overwrite my file 🙂 IF I want to save different versions of a flattened file, I anyway wouldn’t save them all as ongoing copy copy copy , but simply number or name them differently.
I must be doing something wrong or I dont understand how save as copy works.
1. Open image and make changes 2. Select Save as from file menu 3. Check As a copy box 4. Click Save button Dialogue box opens warning the file exists do I want to replace it? If I click Yes the file is replaced. 1. Open image and make changes 2. Select Save as from file menu with the Alt key pressed 3. Get the Save dialogue box but with the word copy inserted in the file name.
As far as I can see the As a Copy check box has no effect. Not how I remember things happening in PS7.
This is not a Save as Copy problem per se, but I am curious…
Do any of you have the "Save As" file extension problem? For example, if I decided to save an existing tif as a psd file, I get a resultant file with a tif extension which is, in reality, a psd file. Photoshop will then refuse to reopen it because it is not a valid document. The workarounds are: I must either rename the file with the appropriate extension, do an Open As, or I must first delete the tif extension in the File Name box when doing a Save As.
Ho, No it sorts out the file extensions correctly for me. The file I experimented on for the save as copy was initially a .tif when the save as copy didnt work I thought there maybe a chance it only worked on .psd files. So I opened the TIF selected Save As and chose PSD from the file type list it automatically removed the .tif extension from the file name replaced it with .psd and saved the file as a PSD format image.
In CS, it will only add "copy" if you are overwriting a file with the same name.
Chris, are you refering to only when ALT is held down?
I’m not seeing the behavior you described normally (without ALT being held down). I just did a simple test: created a document and saved it (as a PSD). I then made a change to it and went to "Save as" again. This time I clicked on "as a copy" and changed nothing else. Then I hit "okay". It asked if I wanted to overwrite my original. My only two options there are "okay" and "cancel".
Anyway, It’s overwriting my original, and not adding the word "copy" anywhere.
Ho, I have the same problem with some computers, not all of them. if I "save as" a different format than original, new file extention adds after old file extention, so for example a xxx.tif, saved as jpg, becomes a xxx.tif.jpg. Really confusing, and a lot of extra work. I have windows XP and PS 7. If you or anyone finds a solution. I would apreciate help. Thank you
Rosaura, as I said in a recent post here (which you may not have seen), I had that problem in PS7. Tried for months to cure it, both on my own and with advice from this forum. Never could. It finally went away when I got a new machine and had a newly formated drive and a fresh install of XP. My guess is it’s something fairly obscure in the registry. I learned to live with it and just delete the 2nd extention.
ps 7 is running on my new machine (as well as ps cs) and neither 7 or cs exibits the double extention problem. the drive was empty when i got it. partitioned and formatted it. installed xp as a clean fresh install. then 7, more recently cs.
Using the check box for save-as-copy works for me without issue; I’d like to be able to do this without using the enter key twice (just like using CTRL-S save hot key). Would creating an action of these steps create a generic save copy action, or would append the original file name associated with the action?
System:
Windows XP Pro 2 Gig Ram 10 Gig Raided Scratch disk (turns out to not be enough, BTW)
Plain and simply all previous version of PS worked fine when the "Save as copy" checkbox was checked. Having to hold down the alt key and then select from menu bar, without letting loose of the left click, "save as" is a BUG plain and simple. Adobe may call it a "feature" or some other stupid thing but it is a GREAT problem especially with macros I have been using now for 8 years. One would think a company like Adobe would have fixed that "feature" by now but they seem not to care. Fine, I have gone back to 7.01 with my raw plugins and am posing all over the place that CS should have been labeled version 8.0-1.
ADOBE–GET WITH IT AND FIX THIS ANNOYANCE or ‘FEATURE" as your phone rep suggested – BAD experience and very much unlike you people.
Hummmm. You said you would have someone "look into" this "save as copy" check box problem in late November. It is now late April Hummm. Even have an update out but only to improve the RAW importing Hummm.
Plain and simply all previous version of PS worked fine when the "Save as copy" checkbox was checked.
Lots of people HATED… no ABHORED… no LOATHED that adobe would append "copy" to the end of their file name. That’s why they took it out. Search the feature request section.
I agree the alt key should work all the time, but please DO NOT go back to the way it was in previous version!!!
A quick way around the clicking and alt holding is to press Ctrl, S, Alt at the same time. You then get the save as copy check box ticked and the word copy in the file name.
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