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[dennisn60923211]

Opened Photoshop 2025 beta and none of my actions or presets loaded. I can not find the old ones either the previous photoshop version is no longer in my program files. Is it that difficult for a company as big and popular as Adobe to ensure that previous versions of their software stay on the computer when a beta is installed? And if not then why not intigrate the previous custom settings and actions be preserved and loaded into the beta version? What a pain this is to have to find and load all of my custom actions into each beta version and also not to have access to the previous version while trying the beta version.

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[CShubert]

Hi @dennisn60923211 if you log out of CCD and the back in, does this clear up the issue?  

Try resetting Prefs for the Beta:
/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/ Photoshop Beta Settings (Mac Ventura)
/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/Adobe\ Photoshop\ \(Beta\)\ Settings (Mac)


C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop (Beta)\Adobe Photoshop (Beta) Settings

Launch BETA Photoshop While Pressing The Keyboard Shortcut
With Photoshop closed, press and hold Shift+Ctrl+Alt (Win) / Shift+Command+Option (Mac) on your keyboard and then Launch Photoshop the way you normally would.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually 

Thanks,

Cory - Photoshop Product Manager

[dennisn60923211]

No I had to reload the previous actions. I found them in the a hidden system folder and load them. Another issue is that Photoshop Beta has the same name as Photoshop. That means that when you have a linked "openwith" or even a double click on a RAW file that it opens the first on the list of Photoshop associated to RAW. I do not know if you are overwriting the previous associations with the new beta or not but it is a pia to have to hunt down registry entries and modify or add new conditions. This has happened previously when I accepted the Beta download. I understand the need to keep the Beta programs seperate from the fully released programs. I still have previous versions of Photoshop taking up space on my hard drive. 

I think that applications that are evolving so rapidly and evolving should have some migration and previous application management console of some sort. End users spend enough time working through the little tweeks of actions and program specific scripts.