[bmmp]

When I open a file in photoshop and then try to save as, it doesn't take automatically take me to the folder that the file originated from. Why? Anyone know?

I use photoshop 7 at both my jobs. It works at one place, but not the other...

Thanks!

[desi]

Originally posted by bmmp:
When I open a file in photoshop and then try to save as, it doesn't take automatically take me to the folder that the file originated from. Why? Anyone know?

I use photoshop 7 at both my jobs. It works at one place, but not the other...

Thanks!

I'm not sure if what happened to me is the same thing, but I had trouble saving any recent files on Photoshop 7. When I opened them up, the layers would seemed to have been flattened or when I saved them it wouldn't know how to save directly to the file in question. This went unanswered until I noticed that for some strange reason, whenever I would double-click on the file to open it or drag and drop on the alias, Photoshop would open up an untitled document of the document I wanted to open. It would have all the information in it except for any of the layers. I still don't know why it's doing that, but to circumvent the problem, I have to go through the Photoshop file menu and open a document through there, which opens the document I want opened and not just an untitled facsimile. Then I can save it properly and see all the layers. Perhaps this is your problem, if not nevermind, if it is, when you open a document, make sure the name is the same in the document window and make sure it doesn't say untitled. How to fix this probelm is beyond me, but to get around it, you have to open up documents through the file menu in Photoshop, or when in Photoshop just hit cmd O. Hope this helps.

[andi*pandi]

you guys have two different problems. Desi, I can't help you, that sounds horrid.

bmmp, this isn't photoshop's thing, it's macos. In 9, go to controlpanel>general controls and see the happy dialog box that mentions opening saving documents.

If in OSX, dunno.

[Aric]

hey desi, just curious, do your file's contain spot channels? i noticed sometimes that when i have spot channels, i have to do a save as and make sure that the spot channels check box is checked.

[desi]

Originally posted by Aric:
hey desi, just curious, do your file's contain spot channels? i noticed sometimes that when i have spot channels, i have to do a save as and make sure that the spot channels check box is checked.

well, there is no spot channels box, there's an alpha channels box and a spot colors box, no spot channels.

well I don't think it would help anyhow. the moment I open up a document, say scene.psd, it opens up as untitled-1, with scene.psd's info with the exception of any layering information, and when I save it or save as, it wants to save it as untitled-1, renaming it scene.psd would only replace the original. this only happens when I double click on the document or drag and drop on the alias or original application icon...though sometimes dropping it on the original application causes it to disappear! it swallows it up into what seems to be a hidden folder, which I've found by double clicking on the photoshop application icon..yes, very strange, I had thought these items were permanently in limbo.

anyhow, I noticed photoshop opening my documents into untitled-1 and knew that's why it never knew to save it to the original name. only through the file menu of Photoshop can I open up a document with it's name and all of it's layers. The only exception is when I oepn up documents I created with Photoshop 2.0.1, yes 2.0.1, and they open fine, however I choose to open them. whatever the problem, is, I don't know what the hell it is. it is a minor problem that I can deal with, now that I understand what it's doing. i've given up on figuring out why, and there was a thread here that tried to figure it out to no avail, so everything I or anyone else could think of at the time did not work. reinstallations, throwing out prefs. the one thing I haven't done though is a complete clean install of the computer. that day is coming though.

if anyone has any new ideas, i'm game to try them.