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@bellevue scott    Each Photoshop version has its own Settings folder under your Windows user account. This contains the full application configuration, every setting beyond clean, newly installed factory state. In other words, every new version starts with a clean slate.   Old settings may not be applicable wholesale in a new version with new code. That's why they're not automatically carried over.   If you turn off automatic updates you can prepare for this situation. First of all, you can choose to keep the old version installed. This lets you save out a lot of these settings to separate files that can easily be reloaded in the new version. Or you can do that in advance, before running the update. Actions and brushes should always be saved out regardless.   There is also an option to migrate settings as part of the update process. That is something I would actually advise against, for the reason given above. But the option is there.   The thing to be aware of with settings/preferences is that they are rewritten on every application exit. That makes them vulnerable to corruption from irregular shutdowns, but it also means that small errors will accumulate over time. Corrupt preferences usually look like application bugs and are frequently mistaken for that. ... View more

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The obvious wild card here is Topaz. Take that out of the equation and just open as smart object from ACR, and check again.   I'm not familiar with Topaz, but if it opens raw files it will obviously not use the same camera profiles as Adobe software. ... View more

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Most likely you have a GPU issue, or possibly corrupt preferences. Version 26 and 27 are rock solid on my two machines and do not crash. In fact I haven't seen a crash in perhaps 5-10 years.    Only the current + 1 previous version are available for download and install in the CC app. So you can only get v 27 and v 26 now.   The most common reason for GPU crashing is conflicting dual GPUs. If you post the full Help > System Info it will show your complete GPU configuration. ACR is usually a bit more sensitive to GPU problems than Photoshop.   But first try a complete reset of preferences. Corrupt preferences usually look like application bugs and are frequently mistaken for that. The preferences contain the full app configuration, including lots of hidden and system-dependent parameters. Preferences are rewritten on every application shutdown, and are vulnerable to corruption by irregular shutdowns. Errors accumulate, and migrating preferences from a previous version can bring out latent problems in the new graphics code in the new version.   https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html  ... View more

Excellent. I marked @ExUSA s post as correct answer. ... View more

Yeah, I just thought of that. You probably need to right-click the image and clear the cached item for a new thumbnail to be built. ... View more

Have you relaunched Bridge? ... View more

@DanPBPhoto    You have "Do not process files larger than" 1000 MB, which is why you don't get thumbnails.    Increase that setting 10x or so, and you'll get your thumbnails. ... View more

Here's the full story:   The jpeg file format specification does not support 16 bit depth, layers, transparency or alpha channels. Stripping these properties to directly save out a jpeg copy - without identifying it as a copy! - was introduced in 2010, in Photoshop CS5. It had to be removed in 2022 or 2023, because changes in security/file integrity policies in MacOS no longer allowed it.  So Adobe had to introduce Save A Copy, thus making the process fully transparent and up front. The big mistake was that Adobe tried to sell it as a "feature" instead of what it really was: an emergency rescue operation. It should be noted that this is how all other image editing applications have always worked and still work. Later they were able to find a new workaround, available as "legacy save as": However, it carries some risks, so it is not enabled by default.   If the file complies with the jpeg file format specification - 8 bit depth, no layers/transparency/alpha channels - jpeg is still available under a regular Save As.     ... View more

This is most likely conflicting dual graphics. That's a well known potential problem.   Disable the Intel UHD in Windows.   Photoshop uses the GPU in the regular processing pipeline. There is unfortunately no way for Photoshop to control which GPU is called. That is entirely at the mercy of how the laptop manufacturer has configured the operating system and the two GPU drivers. You can't send data to one GPU and get a result from the other. ... View more

First of all, a 200 GB scratch file is not unreasonable if you have a very big file, or a high number of files open.   So the question is, how big is your file in pixels? How many pixels wide x high? ... View more

I see it's a pretty big file. Go into Bridge preferences and look at the setting for "Do not process files bigger than..". Can't recall what the default is, but it's not very high. ... View more

Do you have extensions visible or hidden in the operating system settings? ... View more

All you need to do is make sure the profile is embedded. That is a separate checkbox in Export and Save for Web.   If that doesn't display correctly in the web browser, it's a browser problem, not a Photoshop problem.   Although any profile will display correctly as long as it's there, sRGB is still the defacto web standard. It has the highest likelihood of being correctly handled in the highest number of possible scenarios (including user error and misconfigured systems). ... View more

Note "the feature was added at the request of".   It has always been like this. Photos showing currency have been blocked as far back as I can remember. ... View more

This isn't Photoshop, it's the background Lightroom script that runs integration between the apps.    If you "Save" (not "Save As") from Photoshop, it goes back to the original folder - even if it was previously saved to a different location.   It will keep doing this as long as Lightroom/Lightroom Classic is still open. You need to use Save As every time, you can't use Save.   Yes, I think this is hugely annoying as I never keep raw files and RGB master files in the same folder. But I've learnt to live with it and take my precautions. ... View more

when I try to sign back in, it tells me I'm not connected to the internet after it successfully gets the access code from the app By @bravo six   What "access code" do you mean?   You sign in with your email and password in the CC desktop app (not Photoshop). ... View more

Do you have extensions hidden in the operating system settings? You don't say which.   Is the extension part of the copy? Is it marked in blue when you copy? Naturally, you can only copy the name, the file type/extension is set elsewhere. ... View more

I have a LOT of catalog files dating back to LR2.  By @LionheartPix   You don't really need the old catalogs, just maybe the previous one. That would be needed if you had to downgrade the LrC application itself for some reason, since the latest catalog can't be opened in earlier versions. I clean out that list at regular intervals. ... View more

6 GB is nothing. Your disk is full, period. You actually have a much bigger problem than Photoshop - your whole machine may freeze up at any moment. The operating system needs free disk space for routine maintenance, and it doesn't have that now.   Yes, move everything possible off your system drive. Store it on an external drive, USB thumb drives, whatever. Just get it off your system drive. When you've done that, run disk cleanup in Windows. Check as many options as you can for a thorough cleanup.   Don't stop until you have at least 50-100 GB free space, but preferably more. My standard advice is 250-500 GB for Photoshop to work efficiently.   The scratch disk is not an abstract setting, it's real, physical disk space. Image editing requires massive amounts of memory, much more than any RAM you may have installed. So Photoshop writes temporary working data to disk, aka the scratch disk.   If you have to work with limited disk space, reduce history states, if necessary all the way down to 1 or 2. Much of the disk space is occupied by history states, and this will significantly reduce the scratch file size.  ... View more

The only answer I can think of is a permissions issue in your Mac user account. Photoshop needs to both write and read these settings. It's sticky here, even over a restart of the application. ... View more

@Gregory280744443po4    Image Size and Canvas Size have not changed. Both work the same way as they always have.  Canvas Size adds to or subtracts from the existing pixel grid, leaving the image unchanged. It either crops or adds a border. Image Size changes the resolution of the image, the total number of pixels, and as a consequence also changes the canvas size. It has to.   Image Size is document-level and will resize the full document. You can't resize a layer with Image Size. ... View more