2 Versions of PS available (24.4 and 25.5) depending on how I open it...

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February 22, 2024
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Hi,

I've suffered with the bug of PS having vanished from my Apps in CC Desktop for a while which did not bother me as it worked fine.

I decided to fix this as it was not getting any updates unlike LR and CRaw (as per instructions on here by just selecting install) but now I have what looks like a vanilla installation of 25.5 if I access through CC Desktop (which I never do) and if I access it via the desktop shortcut it loads 24.4 with all of my personal settings intact.

Can I merge the two so that all of my settings etc are transferred to the new 25.5 version and so that I can access 25.5 via the desktop shortcut please?

Many thanks

Dave

Windows

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Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@ivorygull1995 Photoshop 24.xx and 25.xx are 2 separate installations of 2 different versions, it's not recommended to copy settings from one version to another

To create a desktop shortcut for version 25.5, right click on the desktop and select New > Shortcut and then browse to this location

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2024\Photoshop.exe

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ivorygull1995Author

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Thanks very much for the reply - it's not so much the creating of the shortcut that is the issue, moreso that PS (or CC Desktop) clearly has a bug in it that caused PS to drop out of the 'My Apps' screen and has gone un-updated for so long. Had this bug not existed then surely it would have automatically updated gradually and sequentially to 25.5 and carried with it all of my (rather extensive) keyboard shortcut and display settings as the vanilla one is awful.

Would you happen to know of a way to force 24.4 to update through to 25.5 please?

Many thanks

Dave

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@ivorygull1995 for PS not showing as installed in the Creative Cloud app, check out this

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/creative-cloud/kb/apps-panel-reflect-creative-cloud.html

"Would you happen to know of a way to force 24.4 to update through to 25.5 please?"

You can turn on Auto Update in the Creative Cloud app preferences and from the Advanced Options you have two choices, "import previous settings and preferences" and also "removed older versions"

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