Adobe Bridge opens files by default in Photoshop 2020

[Kaj_E]

Since the latest updates to Photoshop and Bridge, I lost sky selection. When looking closer, I found that Bridge 2021 is set to open my files in Photoshop 2020 by default. Did not find anything in preferences to fix this.

How do I get Bridge 2021 to open my files in Photoshop 2021 again?

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

Open Preferences in Bridge > go to File Type Associations > change the default for .psd to Photoshop 2021 (and jpg, png, etc., if desired).

If Sky Replacement is not in your Edit menu in PS, check which version is open:

• Mac: PS menu > About
• Win: Help menu > About

~ Jane

[Kaj_E]

RESOLVED!

Changed the default file associations in Bridge from Photoshop 2020 to 2021. Quite a job to do it for all file types. Hoped there would have been a simpler solution to do it in one step.

Adobe, please fix your updates so that this does not happen again.

[Xyzaffair]

So this is a work around and I know it Bites but uninstall bridge re install bridge with updated photoshop version installed before bridge installation. Its true programmers are over payed!

[extrabyte101]

Overpaid. Yes! [ Removed by Moderator ]

[MCO Fine Art]

Thanks for the re-install tip. That might be easier than going through and updating each default open with setting. I was really miffed that my files were opening in an older version, and sometimes I didn't notice until too late.  (Another option that works, I think, is to have PS open first. Then when opening a file from Bridge, it will use the open version of PS).

[D Fosse]

There is a deeper structural problem here, and it's not as easy as it sounds.

The problem is that only one application (version) can hold the default file associations at any given time.

When that application is uninstalled, it will/should return file associations to the operating system. But, here's the thing, it can't hand them over to a newer version of itself, that didn't even exist at the time it was written. It can't even know what this newer version, if ever installed, will be formally called.

And actually, there is a fool-proof and fail-safe procedure to deal with this: always install and uninstall in strict version order. Last in, first out, no exception. Then these problems never happen. It should be possible for the CC installer to acommodate this, but it doesn't.

[mompcomike]

I made sure the jpg file association was Photoshop, but it still defaults to Lightroom