Bridge doesnt recognize new Photoshop Version

[Carmelo5FA3]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with bridge, if I try to open a .tif file I get the following warning popup:

In English: C:\.........\Photoshop 2024\Photoshop.exe could not be found. Please make sure you have entered the name correctly and try again.

I have updated Photoshop to the newer version (Photoshop 2025), why Bridge does not automatically change to the new version? All the other time I updated Photoshop Bridge did get instantly the new version as the standard app,
Here are my config in Bridge:

Standard was set to Automatically select the newer installed version, I tried setting it up manually to Photoshop 2025, but it didn't work,

If I set up manually to open all .tif files with Photoshop 2025 it works, but I dont want to do it for all the file extension that I would eventually want to open with Photoshop.
It is a Windows problem? A Bridge bug? Did someone else experienced the same thing, or am I alone with this?

[Erik Bloodaxe · Accepted solution]

The update to 2025 version software messed up File Type Associations in Bridge for me too.

Look in Bridge Preferences>File Type Associations. Locate TIFF in the list and change to Photoshop 2025. For me this was not given as an option so I had to browse Programs on C: drive to find the correct Photoshop 2025 exe file. All works fine after doing this. I had to repeat this for some other file types too.

[Carmelo5FA3]

Hi Erik,

I also did that for tiff, I don't want to do it for all the files associated with the old Photoshop version Though 😅,
I was hoping someone found a fix to easily change the file associations automatically, or maybe a script that do this.

[Erik Bloodaxe · Accepted solution]

I think the only alternative is to uninstall both Bridge and Photoshop and reinstall them. Use the CC App to do this and be sure to install Bridge FIRST.

[davidr73669643]

Uninstalling and reinstalling the programs (Bridge FIRST) in CC did not work for me. I did it twice just to make sure, but I still get that error and Photoshop does not open from Bridge. Adobe needs to fix this

[gary_sc]

There's nothing to fix here. Eric made the assumption that you are installing both Bridge and PS at the same time and not using dissimilar versions of Bridge and PS.

Simply, uninstall both and then reinstall both, Bridge first. 

Let us know how this works out.

[davidr73669643]

That's what I did. Twice. It got broken with the last Bridge update. These were both the latest versions, and they still don't play nice together...

[davidr73669643]

Interestingly, when I just checked on the laptop (my issue is with a desktop computer) the same version of Bridge (with the preference set to "use most recently installed version of Photoshop, just like it is on the desktop), it worked fine. I did get the introductory slideshow of things that changed in the new version, which I do not recall seeing when I launched Bridge on the desktop. Dunno what that means, but obviously the thing can work.

Does anyone know where Bridge gets or stores its drive:folder/path information for the current PS version? I can't change it in preferences, so it must be grabbing it from some file somewhere.

[ronald_8923]

I found that if I go to the file type, in this case, Photoshop (.psd, .psb, pdd, pdp) click on the drop down box, click on browse, go to program files, Adobe, Photoshop and select Photoshop Application. Say okay and it works great. You can do this for any other files types that does not list "Adobe Photoshop 2025 260" as your association file.

[gary_sc]

Follow the instructions that Erik Bloodaxe provides in the "Correct Answer."

[denniscallan]

Thank you, that worked!

[emeryberk]

This REMAINS a very stupid Adobe problem  (for WEEKS, since early October).

None of the "suggestions" in this chain work.  EVERY TIME you click on a PSD file in Bridge, it stupidly says "Photoshop 2024" not available.  DUH.  That's because stupid ADOBE has a bug in the 2025 Photoshop version.

Lots of "fun" to REPEATEDLY have to click TWICE and select Photoshop 2025 to open EVERY SINGLE PSD file.  Earth to Adobe:  WAKE UP.   November 17th, 2024

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

This is very easy to avoid for the future, with one simple precaution. I'll get to that below. But first the why:

The root cause of this is that the CC installer uninstalls the old version after the new version is installed. File associations always follows the last installer activity. In other words, the old version takes file associations with it on the way out.

Usually it can be easily reassigned in Windows Settings, but sometimes it's necessary to reinstall.

This is how the installers have worked "forever". I first bumped into this with Photoshop CS3 fifteen years ago, and the base mechanism hasn't changed.

OK. Here's what you need to do: always observe strict version order when installing and uninstalling.  When you uninstall, start with the latest and go backwards. Last in, first out. This way the file associations are correctly handed down to the next version in line. Think of it as tennis balls in a plastic tube: to get to the bottom, you have to start removing from the top.

In short - do not check "Remove old versions"! Uninstall manually first, in the proper order, then start the CC installer for the new version.

If you later decide to remove an old version, do not uninstall it directly. Again, start at the top and work backwards. Then reinstall the one you want to keep.