Save as copy not working in CS

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youngaloha
Nov 23, 2003
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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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Scott_Byer
Nov 24, 2003
Hold down the Alt key when selecting Save As to have copy added to the file name.

-Scott
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Paul_Rasmussen
Nov 25, 2003
Scott,
I’m having the same problem but holding down alt when clicking "as a copy" didn’t work. What am I doing wrong?
Paul
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Julian_K
Nov 25, 2003
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.
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Scott_Byer
Nov 25, 2003
Hold down Alt when selecting the "Save As" menu item, not when clicking the checkbox.

I’ll have someone look into this more.

-Scott
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Paul_Rasmussen
Nov 25, 2003
Scott,
I can’t hold down alt when selecting save as, the File menu dropdown retracts. The save as copy command seems to be a bug.
Paul
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dave_milbut
Nov 25, 2003
I can’t hold down alt when selecting save as, the File menu dropdown retracts.

yes you can. try again. hold alt. click file, scroll down the list and click save as. I just tried it and it works exactly as scott says.

Kinda like how you have to do last filter if you want to bring up the dialog again instead of just rerunning the last settings.
DM
dave_milbut
Nov 25, 2003
the trick is not to release the mouse button after you click file. Keep the buttong held down (while still holding alt) and scroll down to save as.
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Paul_Rasmussen
Nov 25, 2003
Dave,
Thanks. It definitely is a work around. Should be fixed. Doubt if programers meant it to work that way.
Paul
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dave_milbut
Nov 25, 2003
who knows? programmers is definately wierd peoples. 😉
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hanford_lemoore
Nov 26, 2003
Paul wrote:

Thanks. It definitely is a work around. Should be fixed. Doubt if programers meant it to work that way.

I hope you’re not asking for the behavior to be reverted to 7.0’s behavior. I am soooooo happy that this was changed in CS.

Thanks Adobe!
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youngaloha
Nov 27, 2003
Well, lets see:

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.
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dave_milbut
Nov 28, 2003
Hmmmm, Which is the better behavior???

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).
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Julian_K
Nov 28, 2003
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.
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Chris_Cox
Nov 30, 2003
Julian – that means that you’re losing some data.

In CS, it will only add "copy" if you are overwriting a file with the same name.
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Julian_K
Nov 30, 2003
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.
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david_evanson
Nov 30, 2003
I must be doing something wrong or I don’t 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.
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Ho
Nov 30, 2003
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.

This is becoming more annoying with each event.
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david_evanson
Dec 1, 2003
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 didn’t 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.
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david_evanson
Dec 2, 2003
Does the ‘As a Copy” check box work for anyone? – I should have added to my earlier post that I am using Windows XP Pro SP1.
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hanford_lemoore
Dec 2, 2003
Chris wrote:

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.
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MarkATS
Dec 2, 2003
Does the ‘As a Copy” check box work for anyone?

Nope. Not on Windows, anyway.
RP
Rosaura_Pujol
Jan 21, 2004
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
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dave_milbut
Jan 21, 2004
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.
RP
Rosaura_Pujol
Jan 21, 2004
Thanks Dave. But it did solve the problem when you got a new machine and had a newly formated drive etc, right? Thanks a lot for your help
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dave_milbut
Jan 21, 2004
But it did solve the problem when you got a new machine and had a newly formated drive etc, right?

correct.
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dave_milbut
Jan 21, 2004
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.
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Christopher_LeFay
Jan 22, 2004
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)
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dave_milbut
Jan 22, 2004
nevermind… 🙂
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Stephanie_Schaefer
Apr 5, 2004
Hold down the <Alt> key while selecting the File | Save As menu.
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JamesFMorrison
Apr 26, 2004
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.
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JamesFMorrison
Apr 26, 2004
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.
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JamesFMorrison
Apr 26, 2004
That Humm message was ment for Scott Byer who apparently works for Adobe.
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dave_milbut
Apr 26, 2004
That Humm message was ment for Scott Byer who apparently works for Adobe.

Oh. I thought you were getting ready to sing.

"I can’t get no… satisfaction." 🙂

We’re all waiting for a dot release, James. Time will tell.
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dave_milbut
Apr 26, 2004
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!!!
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Richard_Nicholls
Apr 27, 2004
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.

Rich
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norm
Apr 27, 2004
Rich, that combination bring up the Shadows-Highlights adjustment palette on my CS. Have you reset that shortcut?

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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.
Rich

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