Silver lining: I found a way to Downgrade my team to 2017 while we wait for this TERRIBLE bug fix. (It's not a feature, Adobe...) . THANKS

Agreed with all below, absolutely worst idea, please revert to the original way of saving files.

This is one of the most frustrating workflow changes to 'Save as Copy...' to date. Please for the love of all things holy make a change like this with a preference checkbox. This isn't a simple, if slightly annoying, keystroke adjustment.

Hi

Can anyone from Adobe provide an ETA on this please, this is really an important function.

I agree with Steve, save a copy lands in another folder away from the one the one it originated in.
When you are doing this all day in the graphics industry becomes VERY annoying

Need a fix ASAP!

yeah, this would be good :)

Does anyone in the developers read these comments at all?

This is a very important BUG!!! A serious break in press prodution workflow!

I have the same problem and it is a big issue in our workflow in my company, shared by all the workers.

It's a very annoying feature. We cannot every time go to other location to save it.

Please bring that feature back of exporting file in save location.

WHEN is the estimated fix date for this? I have advised all of my team to not upgrade to 2018 until this is fixed, but for the two team members that updated, their workflow is SERIOUSLY compromised by this.
Terrible.

When I exported an PNG or JPEG with cc2018 Illustrator, the default folder location is always whatever the previous saved file was. Most of us work with dozens of files at one time. Each time I have to manually find the folder for exportation, rather than having Illustrator directly locating the current ai file like CC2017 does.

As with most of the comments here, I am finding this change quite annoying with "save a copy" files going into the last folder used instead of the folder the project is in, forcing me to navigate through a file system every time I switch projects, which is a lot.

At the very least this should be an option to switch on or off in the preferences.

So I add some white type to my ai file export and email to client. Response: why didn't you do our change. Huh - check jpg no type. Export again no type - bloody thing must be set to overprint. Check type nope all good. WTF am I going nuts. Do again and pay attention this time why adobe why you nearly drove me to drink. A little bit funny and a really dumb idea adobe.

"Echoing all the comments here. This is an infuriating decision with major workflow ramifications. Each project has its own folder. If I open a new project to work on, I want to export derivative work in that folder--not the other folder from the completely different project I exported the last time I worked on something! Maddening." - Yeah, what he said exactly.

Please change it back its impossible to look for the right folder every time i save my file
and its not only in "export" its in "Save A Copy" and "Save for Web"

Seriously i cant believe someone asked for this

Please Fix!

Echoing all the comments here. This is an infuriating decision with major workflow ramifications. Each project has its own folder. If I open a new project to work on, I want to export derivative work in that folder--not the other folder from the completely different project I exported the last time I worked on something! Maddening.

Please change this. This is the only difference that Make Adobe unique.

We are already managing so many design file and so many options and if still we have to search same folder its so irritating.

Why would someone want to save to last saved location??

What is the logic behind this option.

Please revert the export feature back to same folder location as For Designing we work in so many folders and sub folders

How is this not fixed its infuriating