Beta

[Daniel Donahue]

I have the regular 2023 Photoshop and the Beta version.  

All my files now open in Beta only.  Beta does not have all the tools/brushes I have downloaded over the years.

So, I tried to uninstall Beta because I don't want to lose the brushes and other tools.

Then, when I tried to open a file from Bridge, it won't.  The program associated with (now Beta) it doesn't exist.

I want my files to open in the reguar Photoshop so I can use my brushes, etc.. 

How do I get my file association back?  Unistalling Beta doesn't work.

Daniel Donahue

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[davescm]

Have you tried manually setting the File Associations in Bridge Preferences >File Associations ?

Dave

[Daniel Donahue]

Looks to me that that only sets files to be open with extensions like Psd, Jpeg, etc.  I don't see there where a file will open from Bridge into Photoshop 2023 instead of Beta.

[davescm]

It sets which application Bridge will use to open each file type.

Dave

[Daniel Donahue]

[Daniel Donahue]

This is what I get.  Photoshop 2023 not an option.  I find Photoshop 2023 in browse but nothing happens when I click open which is the only choice.

[davescm · Accepted solution]

What should happen when you navigate to another app i.e the correct Photoshop.exe file  (not just the folder)  and click open is that the file association is updated and that app will be used going forward.

Dave

[Daniel Donahue]

The icon for the app is right but the file still opens in beta.

[Daniel Donahue]

However, I still have this despit the icon.

[davescm]

Your screenshot now looks correct for PSDs. Version 24.0 is the current Photoshop 2023 public release. If all versions of Photoshop are now closed and you open a PSD from Bridge, it should use Photoshop 2023 (v24)

You will need to set the other file types from 24.1 to 24 in the same way

Dave

[Daniel Donahue]

Its very confusing, becasuse the Bridge Psd files still only open in Beta.  The thumb nail looks right, but 2023.24.1 is Beta.  If I unistall Beta that goes away and there is no file connection.  Then I can't find the origional Photoshop 2023 to asign to the types of files to open.  It just isn't there.  

I wonder if I unistalled Beta and Photoshop 2023, and installed 2022, if the icons would actually open in the correct Photoshop program.

[Daniel Donahue]

I finally got it.  🙂

When I picked "Brouse" to find the program to change to from Beta in Bridge, I would go to Adobe>2023 and try to apply that.  That didn't work. But, I had to open that folder and pick "Photoshop" and click "Open" to get it assigned.  I'll bet I spent about 10 hours trying to get it working.  Part of that was trying to find all the brushes and Actions I had and import/export to Beta.  I couldn't get that done either.  So, I can go about my day now.  I was going to call Adobe today.  

[niacey00]

GENIUS !! The same process was happening to me. Everything in this thread was making sense, and by all means it should have worked, but THIS fixed it. Thank you !! On another note I was trying to assign the Photshop.exe as default at the "open with" right clicking picture. So i can see how we both overlooked davescm's suggestion 

[davescm]

Hi

Glad you got it 🙂

That is what I meant earlier when I said you have to go to navigate to the relevant Photoshop.exe file not just the folder

Dave

[Daniel Donahue]

I get that now.  But that file didn't have .exe after it, so I didn't pick that file.  I wonder if there is anything else Beta has changed.  

[Dave Swarthout]

I'm about to uninstall Photoshop Beta 24.1 (it's very buggy) and thought I'd correct my file associations ahead of time but it's a tedious task. Why does Adobe alter the file associations for a beta product? I was presented with the option of using the Beta as the default after installing it, and I chose to do it, but I assumed it would be easy to revert if I uninstalled it. That is emphatically not the case.

While there is a lot to like about subscription software, I wish we could go back to the "old days" when Photoshop never crashed and a release was good for a year or two. I think Photoshop is an incredible program and I've been using it for decades but I'm noticing bugs in every update. They get fixed eventually but there are weeks, sometimes months, during which I have to learn to work with or work around these bugs.

If I didn't have so much experience with Photoshop I would be tempted to quit my subscription and try some other image editing program. In my estimation, Adobe has fallen from the top rank.

[pets]

annoying beta features:

- when installing beta, i still need to work with regular PS professionally, but beta opens all files on double-click by default (osx, change finder settings to regular photoshop wont be an effect...)

adobe solution: the latest installed PS opens files by double-click, so un-install regular PS and install again (i wont do that, as i probably loose by settings/brushes/actions

- beta wont take over my regular PS settings/brushes/actions/etc.. 

- suggestion 2024: beta could ask AI-wise: "would you like to migrate the complete preferences (windows, palettes, brushes, settings, actions, color management settings, proof settings ..) from your other PS install ?"

uninstalled beta ...