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a normal save will not work, Indesign asks me to save as and where?????

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    • April 20, 2011 at 6:40 pm #59359
      ReadingG
      Member

      I open up a document to work on it.

      I make a few changes and then click save.

      The save as window pops up asking me where I want to save it and what name do I wish to give the document.

      This is made more annoying by the fact that the place where it offers to save it is the last location visited/used but usually not the location of the document that I am working on.

      This is a waste of time and an annoyance.

      Please help.

      How do I get the save feature to work and only the save feature and to NOT have the save as feature work unless I choose it to work?

      Thanks in advance for any help, Richard

    • April 20, 2011 at 6:43 pm #59360
      ReadingG
      Member

      P.S. the document will not save unless I use the save as feature and spend time searching through my files to where that file resides then I save it and it asks me if I wish to replace teh old file.

    • April 21, 2011 at 3:33 am #59364
      Fadlabi
      Member

      If you change your Color Settings from: Edit>Color Settings all the old files before this change – when it open and make any change Indesign ask you to save as because the color profile different than the newer one.

    • April 22, 2011 at 3:56 pm #59395
      Alan Gilbertson
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      ReadingG said:

      I open up a document to work on it.

      I make a few changes and then click save.

      The save as window pops up asking me where I want to save it and what name do I wish to give the document.

      This is made more annoying by the fact that the place where it offers to save it is the last location visited/used but usually not the location of the document that I am working on.

      It sounds like you are opening documents created using an earlier version of InDesign than the one you are using. When you open the document, does the word “[converted]” appear after the original document name? If so, that is definitely what's happening. InDesign can only Save As, because the versiion of the document that you now have in memory is no longer compatible with the original that you just opened.

      Unfortunately (and you're not the only person who gets driven crazy by this), InDesign doesn't offer to save it back to the original folder. That would be SUCH a useful preference setting…

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