save not working when external monitor set as primary

Hello foundart,

It seems like you're experiencing issues saving documents in some apps when using an external monitor, is that correct? We'd like to help.

You mentioned that the Save menu doesn't work, can you let us know more about that? For example, do you experience an issue when you try to save documents using the steps in the "Save documents" part of this link? Create and work with documents on Mac If so, do any specific errors appear when you try to save documents?

Are you able to test the issue in other apps and let us know if it happens with Apple applications, as well as the apps you mentioned?

If the issue is that apps stop responding or don't work as expected, these steps may help: If an app on your Mac stops responding, closes unexpectedly, or won’t open

Thanks!

foundart,

Thanks so much for letting us know more about the situation. We'd like to confirm a few additional details.

Have you always experienced this behavior, or did this begin recently? If the behavior didn't happen initially, were any changes made to your device or its settings before this began?

To help narrow this issue down more, can you let us know if you experience the same behavior in safe mode? How to use safe mode on your Mac

Thank you!

Same issue here as well. Started with upgrade to monterey. experience it especially in MS Office products, Matlab, and others. But it does not affect all installed software packages. Furthermore, if for those affected products I try File -> Open... usually the entire app freezes and the only remedy is a force close.

I have the exact same issue as OP. It started with the upgrade to Monterey.

I'm on a 2016 15-inch MPB (MacBookPro13,3). Monitor is a Samsung C34J79x connected via Thunderbolt.