Central settings for Adobe and system-wide File Type associationsOpen for Voting
Since the dawn of Generative AI, there are almost daily upgrades and updates of 'regular' applications and public betas. And because of unfortunate cases of some crucial bugs, users (like me) prefer to retain or even re-install older versions. This results in a myriad of file type associations, both on the system level as in Adobe Bridge.Almost tens or even hundreds times a day, I'm confronted with the need to check the file type association of a certain file before double-clicking it. The system has its default settings, and some updates don't touch that, but other updates or upgrades do. Next to that, Bridge has its own approach. And on top of that, with certain newer filetypes (like WebP) an application like Photoshop even doesn't show up yet in the system's list of available applications to open it...I lost track of any logic in the current or changing status of these settings, due to installing a new, a public beta, or even an older version of any application. Simply opening a fil