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Adobe CS6 file associations are all messed up

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May 15, 2012
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Many of CS6 file association extensions wont open;

After installing CS6 many of the previous extensions .psd .prproj .ai, I found broken and Windows 7 (64bit) would ask what program to open it with.

It would not give me the option to chose the obvious. So, I selected Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Associations and select Photoshop cs6 .exe and it would not assign it.

Same with several other files.

Even files I made fresh from CS6 photoshop(64) it wont select or give option to open with the program it was made with. I have to open the program first and select the file from inside the program.

Now Adobe Bridge CS6 shows all the files with a visual preview but when I select the file it says "windows cannot find 'C:\program file\adobe\adobe cs5 (64 bit)\photoshop.exe' make sure you typed the name correctly, then try again.

Somehow I have to unlink the old extensions because cs5 is gone but I can't seem to change the associations until whatever residual cs5 registry ghost still lives in my machine.

I have googled the problem and a lot of people are having this problem but no real fixes seem apparent or they are insanely drastic like wiping the whole drive and re-installing windows.

I see that this has happened before with other upgrades on the forums i.e. cs4 to cs5 years back.

This is my 6th upgrade and I gave adobe thousands and thousands of dollars and why is this problem not getting addressed when other been complaining about years ago and still not a viable solution is given.

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PECourtejoie wrote:
Did you try to uninstall/reinstall CS6?
In order for them to make an utility, they need to be able to reproduce the issue first.
I suggest to report the issue to http://feedback.photoshop.com with as much information as possible.

This is a long standing problem and short of uninstalling and running Adobe Script cleaner, or going into the registry and making certain changes, re-installing, changing file type associations has worked.

One user has indetified where the problem is in the registry, but this is with Vista and I am not comfortable recommending users dive into registry changes.

I brought up this problem in the CS6 beta trial, but it did not generate much interest. Have a PM into one of the engineers to see it they are working on problem.

Here is a registy fix for Win7 machines to the file association problem.

This from TinusHDCA user:

I installed Photoshop CS6, then found CS5 was still there. I thought, hey, I don't need CS5 anymore, so I uninstalled CS5. then I found out that Photoshop was no longer available in 'Open with' when right-clicking an image...

So I went into the Registry, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\Photoshop.exe\shell\open\command, and changed the (Default) from "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe" "%1" to "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe" "%1" (so changed CS5 to CS6) - and now I see 'Adobe Photoshop CS6' in my 'Open with' list when right-clicking an image...

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Arriez

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I've had this problem twice now in the last two years, I seriously expected this problem would be fixed by now, I'm on Windows 7.I just upgraded from 2015 to 2015.5 and boom.

So I went into the Registry, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\Photoshop.exe\shell\open\command, and changed the(Default) from "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe" "%1" to "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe" "%1" (so changed CS5 to CS6) - and now I see 'Adobe Photoshop CS6' in my 'Open with' list when right-clicking an image...

This is what I found useful, but I changed 2015 to 2015.5 like below. Now Photoshop is shown in the list of default programs.
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5\Photoshop.exe" "%1"

Thanks Curt Y!

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bendthaus

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Another satisfied customer in 2015. I did the same thing. I had CS5 and CS6, "Oh I don't need CS5 anymore"

!bang! all the same issues described above,

The registry fix worked for me, except I had to edit the "Indesign" key instead of the Photoshop key.

Thanks!

I wish Adobe had their act together.

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Video_GUE

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This solved my problem. My issue started after installing CS6 while still having 5.5, then removing 5.5 Iwas unable to choose PP as a defulat program since I have it installed on a non system disk. Changing the registry worked perfectly.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1005273

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Bubblywink

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I had a similar problem with Dreamweaver CS6 on a Windows 7 64 bit machine refusing to be associated with .html files. Another forum suggested Default Programs Editor: http://defaultprogramseditor.com/
I was able to fix the broken file associations without reinstalling everything.

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Anonymous

You must have uninstalled a previous version after you installed CS6. Adobe says this won't happen, but have seen it in these posts all too often.

If you leave previous versions in place there seems to be no problems.

Do you have anything but CS6 on your computer? If so one method is to uninstall, run the Adobe Scripts cleaner, then reinstall.

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desertowlAuthor

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I have other Adobe products outside of cs6

I had previous versions but I thought it redundant to have Photshop cs5 + Photshop cs5(64bit) + Photshop cs6 + Photshop cs6(64bit) and the same goes for the other multi copies. So, I deleted cs5 and saved a few programs I noticed were not in cs6.

If Adobe can make a script cleaner utility why can't they make a utility that fixes this issues in a click of a button. or better yet have an option inside photoshop that gives you the ability to associate files it opens,

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desertowlAuthor

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Ok, I am having the same trouble, except it is going back to CS3. I am in the location to make the change. How do I? I can't simply replace it, I have to do something to make the text editable. Help me, please, before I kill the whole thing.

Thanks.

OK, I found how to edit and changed it accordingly. However, it still gives me the same result.

I simply changed in the registry the 5 into a 6. and saved it of course.

Now it may look like I am changing the program name. However I am not, you need to go ito the registry to do this change not the programs file.

How to get to the registry is by doing the following on a windows 7 machine but as I remember it works the same way to get to the on all windows machines;

1. go to your start menu and in the "search programs and files" entry box type regedit which isshort for registry editor;

2. Go and drill down the files by;

opening the file named \HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

opening the file named \Applications

opening the file named \Photoshop.exe

opening the file named \shell

opening the file named \open

opening the file named \command

or

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\Photoshop.exe\shell\open\command

Once you opened the command you will seeto the right under the Data column is the registry part that needs to be changed. It is simple really all that needs to be changed is the underlined part from a 5 to 6 (see below).

from this --------------------> C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe

to this -----------------------> C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Photoshop.exe

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