Photoshop CS2 ‘Save As’ problem

LH
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liew_hongze
Aug 24, 2006
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Hi, recently upgraded to CS2 from CS. However, i’ve been encountering this problem whereby when I used ‘save as’ on a file, the new file extension would not be appended to the file.

For example:
1) I open up ‘Save As’ for picture.jpg.
2) I select tiff format.
3) File extension Doesn’t change (still remains as picture.jpg).
4) If I saved in the same folder as the original file, PS will ask me whether I wanna replace the file.
5) Manually renamed to picture1.jpg.
6) Tiff options come up. File is saved.
7) When I open my new picture1.jpg in PS, it will generate an error msg telling me file format is wrong (this is not a jpg file, blahblah).
8) Finally, I’ll have to rename the extension manually to .tif to get the picture to work.

Sorry for the lengthy post, but was just trying to make sure the situation is clear. To summarise, the problem happens at Step 3. Resetting preferences didn’t help.

So, anyone with such a problem? This only happened in CS2 not CS.

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chrisjbirchall
Aug 24, 2006
Firstly, I would try resetting the Preferences as detailed in the FAQs. A corrupted Prefs file often causes strange behaviour.

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Ho
Aug 24, 2006
This "Save As" issue is normally fixed by editing the Windows registry as follows:

Run Regedit and find the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\comdlg32\NoFileMru

Change NoFileMru’s value to 0 instead of 1

Let me know if this works for you.
LH
liew_hongze
Aug 24, 2006
Ho:
Wow! it works! Thks man, it’s been irritating me for some time now. So it’s more of a windows problem?

chrisjbirchall:
lol, yes i noticed that stupid smiley…initially thought was some devious Adobian conspiracy….8)
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Gener
Aug 24, 2006
Ho: That’s a weird one. Save As… works fine on both my 2000 desktop and XP laptop. Looking at the registry (on both), there is no comdlg32 entry under
Policies.

I’m glad liew’s problem is solved, but I wonder why I didn’t get this.

Gene
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Ho
Aug 24, 2006
I think the Key is added by disabling auto complete with Tweak UI; other such programs may screw up the file extensions in their own way. This really should be in the FAQ.

Len?
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Gener
Aug 24, 2006
Thanks, Ho

Kinda thought some third party software was the culprit.

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