Ps 2024 (rel. 25.0) - Do Filters & Plugins Automatically port to Ps 2024 from Ps 2023?

[Fotomaker01RA]

I'm on Win 11. Currently using Ps 2023 (rel. 24.7).

I've seen posts by other Win users saying their 3rd party plugins (aka, Filters) didn't carry forward & install into the new Ps 2024 from prior annual Ps releases. After seeing those posts, I'm holding off updating to Ps 2024 (commercial rel. 25.0).

Is that a general bug/known issue for Windows (or, all) users?

We used to have to ensure our 3rd party plugins/filters were in a Ps Common Programs folder (or some name like that) to ensure they'd carry forward without us manually having to copy all our filters/plugins to the comparable file hierarchy in each successive annual update.

It worked fine for years. Has that design been changed by Adobe? I don't want to lose any filters (especially "classic" [old] ones doing manual copying processes that I was glad to stop doing in recent years past - plus they end up in multiple file hierarchies & add to memory consumption if we retain older Ps versions for various reasons.

Thanks in advance to anyone who knows what's happening with this and can share how 3rd party plugins/filters porting to the latest Ps generation are being handled!

[RosaPerry]

Hi @Fotomaker01RA 
I've had no problems with Plugins/Filter carrying over from previous version of Photoshop to the new v 25.

I'm on Windows 10.

[Fotomaker01RA]

Thx Rosa! I appreciate the reply.

I'm seeing posts about it all over the Web. Perhaps it's a Mac issue.

Fingers crossed my many 3rd party filters (about 1/2 of which can't be reinstalled) will carry forward like yours did! Think I'll wait until after I produce my currently in progress Ps tutorial video for YouTube before updating. 

[Trevor.Dennis]

I have found that some older plugins did not migrate to recent major version updates.  I am also on Windows 11, so I found the .8BF files in older versions in Program Files, and simply copied them to the current verion plugins folder. Looking at the list, it was mostly Flaming Pear plugins that got left behind, but also Redfield's Fractalius.

The rest migrated automatically.  BTW Lazy Nuzumi is in the above folder, but it was working fine before I moved it.

Let us know if this helps, because there will be plenty of people in your (our) situation.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Just an adition to the above, when you have this sort of issue, it nearly always helps to work out the file format — in this case .8BF — and do a search for it.  Or use the Photoshop file location link to work out were things shoud be, and search to find where they actually are.  You can usually fix these things with a bit of detective work.

https://helpx.adobe.com/nz/photoshop/kb/preference-file-names-locations-photoshop.html

If this doesn't help, check out the plugin's website, because my experience above suggests it is their code that is failing, and there will other people in the same situation, so they'll hopefully have something on their Support or FAQ page.  Those Flaming Pear plugins are so old I am surprised they still work (actually their UI are dreadful!) so there are bound to be issues.  Remember there are 30 million people with Creative Cloud subscriptions, and I strongly suspect that pretty much all of them will have Photoshop, so it's the lack of posts on this forum that tells us that the vast majority of people don't have any problems.

[Fotomaker01RA]

Thx so much.

I'll keep this for reference. 

Topaz Labs seems to be getting a lot of not porting forward posts. But I've seen others that said "none of my filters carried forward".

Yes, I have Flood too.  😉

I know I had different experiences with some software when I used Win 10, vs my current Win 11. Including having some s/w incapable of working on Win 11 (like Adobe Fresco). So helps to have info from another similar OS user. Thx!

[Trevor.Dennis]

FYI since I maded the above post, I updated to full release 25.0.0 and the latest Photoshop beta version, and while both had most of my plugins, neither had any of the Flaming Pear or Redfield Fractalius.  Come to think of it, on my old system I kept the .8BF files in a folder in My Documents > Created a Shortcut the folder and placed that in the plugins folder after Photoshop updates.  There's probably not much of a 'time taken' advantage to that approach, but I liked to think it was neater.

I also have Filter Forge 11 installed, but only as a stand alone app.  So now I have remembered that I'll get that integrated with the current Photoshop version.

[Fotomaker01RA]

I was ensuring all my plugin filters were in the Adobe Ps Common Files folder. From whenever that was instituted it ensured my filters carried forward (yes, Flood could sometimes still go rogue...). It was so nice not to have to go back to the previous year's implementation and have to manually cut then paste into the newer folder hierarchy. I would hope the Adobe devs haven't jettisoned that design. Your backup 'tidy' folder sounds like a good insurance policy if they, sadly, did change approach to an older, less elegant one for users to cope with.