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Understanding File Saving Preferences

You can control a number of options related to saving files in the File Handling pane of the Preferences dialog box.
PHOTOSHOP FOUNDATIONS can use this menu to Macintosh
Image Previews. You

always or never include
image thumbnails in
the saved file. If you
choose Ask When
Saving in this menu,
the Save As dialog
Windows
box includes an option
to include the image
preview/thumbnail.

On Macintosh, you
have two additional
options: Icon and
Windows Thumbnail.
You can check the Icon
option to show the
image thumbnail in the
Open dialog box and
Finder (instead of the default Photoshop
file icon). Although Macintosh can
almost always read Windows
information, Windows sometimes has
trouble with certain Macintosh data —
specifically, file thumbnails; you can
check the Windows Thumbnail option to
include a thumbnail that will be visible
in the Windows Open dialog box. If Ask When Saving is selected
in the File Handling preferences,
Append File Extension. On the Save As dialog box presents
Macintosh, you can use this menu options to include Image
to always or never include the file Previews and File Extension.
extension in the saved file. If the Ask
When Saving option is selected in this menu, the Save As dialog box includes options to append
the file extension (in lower case or not). On Windows, file extensions are always added to saved files;
this preference menu has only two options: Use Upper Case and Use Lower Case.

Save As to Original Folder. When this option is checked, choosing File>Save As
automatically defaults to the location where the original file is located.

Save in Background. In Photoshop CS6, the Save process occurs by When a file is being saved in the
default in the background — in other words, you can continue working background, the completed percent-
even while a file is being saved. In previous versions, you could not age appears in the document tab.
interact with the application while a file was being saved. Especially
when you work with large files, this can be a significant time saver
because you don’t have to sit and wait the several minutes it might take
to save a very large file. (The only thing you can’t do while a file is being
saved is use the Save As command; if you try, you will see a
warning advising you to wait until the background save is complete.)
Automatically Save Recovery Information Every... This new feature in Photoshop CS6 means that your work is being
saved in a temporary file, every 10 minutes by default; if something happens — an application crash or power outage, for
example — you will be able to restore your work back to the last auto-saved version. In other words, the most you will lose
is 10 minutes’ work!

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