Photoshop not "Saving As"- [Mac osX.3.9]

JM
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John McWilliams
May 25, 2005
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I have a PS file that when I go to Save As in PS, the normal [blue] Save button has turned into a [blue] "GO" button. The file isn’t locked per Finder info [Mac osX.3.9], it’s flattened, but persistently with each try to Save as it gives this dialogue I can’t find a way around.


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edjh
May 25, 2005
John McWilliams wrote:
I have a PS file that when I go to Save As in PS, the normal [blue] Save button has turned into a [blue] "GO" button. The file isn’t locked per Finder info [Mac osX.3.9], it’s flattened, but persistently with each try to Save as it gives this dialogue I can’t find a way around.
Just that file or any file? If only that file, paste it into a new document and save that one. Then trash the original as it’s probably corrupted.


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John McWilliams
May 26, 2005
edjh wrote:
John McWilliams wrote:

I have a PS file that when I go to Save As in PS, the normal [blue] Save button has turned into a [blue] "GO" button. The file isn’t locked per Finder info [Mac osX.3.9], it’s flattened, but persistently with each try to Save as it gives this dialogue I can’t find a way around.
Just that file or any file? If only that file, paste it into a new document and save that one. Then trash the original as it’s probably corrupted.
Yes, thanks, that’s a workaround that does fine, but I was hoping to get under the hood a bit and learn what caused this to happen. It had happened previously but I somehow got around it without copying or dragging the layer into a new document.

I had Version Cue enabled for a bit, but disabled that.

Still baffled. When I hit "GO" it just beeps, not telling me where to navigate, and just sitting there.

john mcwilliams
JM
John McWilliams
May 27, 2005
John McWilliams wrote:
edjh wrote:

John McWilliams wrote:

I have a PS file that when I go to Save As in PS, the normal [blue] Save button has turned into a [blue] "GO" button. The file isn’t locked per Finder info [Mac osX.3.9], it’s flattened, but persistently with each try to Save as it gives this dialogue I can’t find a way around.
Just that file or any file? If only that file, paste it into a new document and save that one. Then trash the original as it’s probably corrupted.
Yes, thanks, that’s a workaround that does fine, but I was hoping to get under the hood a bit and learn what caused this to happen. It had happened previously but I somehow got around it without copying or dragging the layer into a new document.

I had Version Cue enabled for a bit, but disabled that.

Still baffled. When I hit "GO" it just beeps, not telling me where to navigate, and just sitting there.

Problem solved. I had put a tilde in front of the file name, via the finder. When there’s a tilde involved, PS wants to take you to a folder. Removing said tilde made it go away.


John McWilliams
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edjh
May 28, 2005
John McWilliams wrote:
John McWilliams wrote:

edjh wrote:

John McWilliams wrote:

I have a PS file that when I go to Save As in PS, the normal [blue] Save button has turned into a [blue] "GO" button. The file isn’t locked per Finder info [Mac osX.3.9], it’s flattened, but persistently with each try to Save as it gives this dialogue I can’t find a way around.
Just that file or any file? If only that file, paste it into a new document and save that one. Then trash the original as it’s probably corrupted.
Yes, thanks, that’s a workaround that does fine, but I was hoping to get under the hood a bit and learn what caused this to happen. It had happened previously but I somehow got around it without copying or dragging the layer into a new document.

I had Version Cue enabled for a bit, but disabled that.

Still baffled. When I hit "GO" it just beeps, not telling me where to navigate, and just sitting there.

Problem solved. I had put a tilde in front of the file name, via the finder. When there’s a tilde involved, PS wants to take you to a folder. Removing said tilde made it go away.

OS X is much less forgiving when you use oddball characters than the old Mac OS was.

Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
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Odysseus
May 30, 2005
In article <0LOle.7688$>,
edjh wrote:

John McWilliams wrote:

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Problem solved. I had put a tilde in front of the file name, via the finder. When there’s a tilde involved, PS wants to take you to a folder. Removing said tilde made it go away.

OS X is much less forgiving when you use oddball characters than the old Mac OS was.

Do you know where there’s an authoritative list of what’s not safe? When a local Apple dealer installed our OS X server we got dire warnings against using any, and I’ve been training myself not to use some of my habitual ‘shorthand’ tags … but OTOH we haven’t had any trouble at all with the ‘legacy’ files transferred from our previous OS 8.6 system, or since uploaded from ‘classic’ workstations, which include many with "oddball characters" in their names. (Touch wood!) It may help that our filenames almost always start with alphanumerics; the only exceptions IIRC are Photoshop files created by a former employee who apparently had a version-tracking method that consisted of prefixing asterisks to filenames.


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