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Stop Photoshop From Secretly Saving Your Files to the Cloud (And Fix Save As While You're At It)
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Stop Photoshop From Secretly Saving Your Files to the Cloud (And Fix Save As While You're At It)

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve saved a file, closed Photoshop, gone hunting for it in my project folder, and come up completely empty. For the longest time I blamed myself. Bad naming conventions, wrong folder, classic me. Then I started blaming the coffee shop WiFi, which honestly tracks. But the real culprit was a default setting Adobe quietly changed in 2022 that redirected my saves to Creative Cloud instead of my local drive, without ever making that particularly obvious.

Adobe Broke Save As and Here's How to Get It Back
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Adobe Broke Save As and Here's How to Get It Back

If you’ve been using Photoshop long enough to have a muscle memory for certain workflows, you know how disorienting it is when Adobe quietly reshuffles something fundamental. A few weeks back, that’s exactly what happened with Save As, and the fallout was loud. Adobe changed how saving copies of files works, and if you were the kind of person who opened a RAW file, made some edits, and hit Save As to kick out a JPEG, you suddenly found yourself staring at a dialog box that seemed to be missing half its options.