File saving is screwy
I nearly panicked tonight trying to find a file I knew I had saved after working on it all day. With XD on Win 10, the "save as" experience is no longer what 99.99% of all other programs do, and what Adobe has done for 2 decades plus.
When you "save as" in the creative cloud, typically the program you're in just opens a file explorer to save the file in whatever folder you select. Instead, you've created some "Name your document" interface that is ambiguous in it's function. If I save to cloud documents, the interface goes away and I have absolutely no idea where that file went.
This is quite frightening when you come back later to try and find it and it's nowhere to be found. I spent the entire day working on this file, and now suddenly it's just not anywhere.
This is a really bad file save experience. I need to see the folder, or at least be able to select the folder it's getting saved into. I share dozens of files with other designers through the creative cloud, it's our defacto storage space, so we have dozens of folders and subfolders for all the different projects we're working on.
I finally found the file doing a search on my local machine, it was burined in "myapps" under some weird long randomly generated folder. I'd rather the prototyping tools I'm using didn't cause me a heart attack and several minutes of panicked, frantic file searching.
We’ve surfaced the local document option directly using a different key command, so that you can go back to the system UI. The keyboard command is Shift+Opt+Cmd+S (Mac) or Shift+Alt+Ctrl+S (Win). Hope that helps!
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Leah commented
What's next the clutch and brake pedal are going to swap around in my car, or my laces are going to be under my shoe, Which genius thought to change the save keys that have been a default forever and still are in every other app were a good idea?
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Wakeem commented
I agree to this. I like to keep my workflow as steady as possible, to keep focus on creating. Now it seems Adobe likes to force us to save things i the cloud. I use my own filing system and like to keep working like that. Also for no clear reason sometimes my files are renamed 'Copy of...' or 'Copy of Copy of ...'
It would be nice just to be able to maybe switch to classic file saving mode and not this dumbed down saving, like the horrendous MS Office applications have.
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David Bissell commented
Absolutely. Re-inventing how to save files didn't need re-inventing.