#Illustrator shortcut to save as update#

Unfortunately, the change appears to be something Adobe chose to do since Apple’s developer notes are not nearly as public-facing as Adobe applications that are used by millions of people.

#Illustrator shortcut to save as update#

Adobe confirms that the updates to the Save As feature affect both Mac and PC users who update to the latest version. The changes to the application may be due to Apple, but they affect all users. “Prior to macOS 10.15, the system used a separate process only for sandboxed apps.” “When the user saves the document, macOS adds the saved file to the app’s sandbox (if necessary) so that the app can write to the file. “In macOS 10.15, the system always displays the Save dialog in a separate process, regardless of whether the app is sandboxed,” Apple states.

This change is referenced in Apple’s Developer notes, which states that the company adjusted the API that allowed applications to prompt users for information about where to save a file. The newly saved file becomes the new file associated with the document for future saves.” The ‘Save As’ command still does the same thing as it did before, only you no longer have the option to ‘Save a Copy’ or save to a format that would not fully preserve the document’s contents. It has required us to separate the ‘Save As’ and ‘Save a Copy’ operations, because we must now finalize the base filename before we present the save dialog. “This update is a work-around for macOS functionality that is no longer available. We could do this safely because we were able to selectively append ‘copy’ to the filename in situations that might otherwise lead to work being lost. “Being able to edit the filename in the save dialog allowed Photoshop to safely combine the “Save As” and “Save a Copy” operations into one, enabling people to choose which way to go while the dialog was open. But starting with Catalina, we are no longer able to do that,” Adobe elaborates. Before the release of Catalina, we were able to control the filename text in the save dialog while the dialog was open. Therefore, we have very little control over how they operate. “Photoshop, like most applications, relies on the operating system for the main operation of the open and save dialogs. “The new Save a Copy option in the File dropdown menu of Photoshop addresses a change in macOS 10.15.x and later, which eliminated the ability to manipulate aspects of the Save As dialog.”Īdobe says the “manipulation” refers to specific file naming. In a statement to PetaPixel, an Adobe representative echoes this sentiment. According to Nielson, Apple removed the API that Adobe used for Save As, which forced the company to make an entirely new menu item in order to circumvent it. Photoshop’s Product Manager Stephen Nielson noted the reason for the change actually lies specifically with a decision made by Apple in its most recent operating system update. So we rebuilt the functionality as a new menu item, Save a Copy. The old behavior is no longer possible in macOS Big Sur because Apple removed the API we used. However, this change wasn’t something Adobe necessarily wanted to make. On the surface, it appears as though Adobe added a third save option that only serves to break decades of muscle memory and frustrate its users.