Too many copies of Photoshop (and others)

[Gadzooxtian]

I updated my Adobe products yesterday (18/Jan) - and I now have two copies of everything apparently. I have the previous AND current version of Photoshop - and of Premiere, Bridge and Media Encoder. Am I gonna be charged for all this "extra" stuff? Shouldn't an upgrade remove previous versions? If I uninstall Photoshop v 19.1.7 - will I also lose v 20.0.2 ?

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[JJMack]

IMO it a good practice to keep  old good working version of Photoshop.  So you have a way to edit image whet Adobe brakes the current version of Photoshop or releases a new buggy version of  Photoshop. I find  The Updated version of CS6 and CC 2014 are worth keeping installed. No extra charge.

[gener7]

gadzooxtian  wrote

I updated my Adobe products yesterday (18/Jan) - and I now have two copies of everything apparently. I have the previous AND current version of Photoshop - and of Premiere, Bridge and Media Encoder. Am I gonna be charged for all this "extra" stuff? Shouldn't an upgrade remove previous versions? If I uninstall Photoshop v 19.1.7 - will I also lose v 20.0.2 ?

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No, you are not charged for previous versions of Photoshop on your account. You can use any version CC offers down to CS6.

Uninstalling an earlier version does not delete a later version. Creative Cloud use to delete earlier versions by default, but since some plugins are not carried over, keeping the old copy gives the user a chance to use the plugin until an updated plugin for the new version is released.

Gene

[Dean_Utian]

As others have said, you are not charged for having multiple versions of a particular Adobe product and it is not a bad thing to have multiple versions installed.

I have multiple versions of Photoshop on my computer. The good thing about a PSD file is that you can open one created in PS 2018 in PS 2015. Having a previous version can have benefits for cases where something may not working exactly right in the new version.

[Gadzooxtian]

Thanks guys. I've been using CC for about two/ three years, it's the first time I've seen multiple versions show up after an update.

[Test Screen Name]

They changed the default to keep the old version. People didn't know you could get it back easily, so if something was wrong with a new version it was an even bigger disaster for them.