I upgraded to the Elements 2025 bundle yesterday. All the settings from PSE, PRE, and the Elements Organizer were completely ignored and I had to pore over the old settings to match my desired configuration with the 2025 apps.
Each installation is it's own program, leaving previous versions untouched. Organizer: when you first run it in pse 2025 you are asked about importing previous catalogues.
If you have brushes, or pallets, or shapes that you have added: It's a simple matter of copying and pasting each element (such as your brush libraries) from the previous version into the new version.
You can manually install ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) 17.4.1 if you need to.
I find that with a new install that auto creations and facial analysis are automatically turned on- it's easy to turn those off if you want to.
Unlike photoshop (PSE's big brother) there really is not much else to configure i nregards to the interface. You probably would need to check everything in your preference file for both the editor, and the organizer- each has their own Preference file-- along with Premier Elements. I think that is whatyou are talking about are all preference file related options, correct?
Yes, I'm talking about ordinary preferences, such as whether rulers are display, units of measure, dark or light UI, and what the workspace looks like.
Most programs I use receive regular updates (for example, the Microsoft 365 suite). They don't change how I've arranged things. Neither do other video editors I've used. So I was quite put off by this experience.
I realize the previous versions are untouched. But why would Adobe assume that I wanted to use a new version of the same program in a different way?
I don't think it's so much an assumption on Adobe as it is that each new version generally has something new in the preference file that some other version does not, and that possible conflicts may arise from using a preference file from a previous version.
For many users a preference file is used when adjusting brush settings, memory usage, and scratch disks.
ALSO: for many users (an assumption on my part) they generally don't mess with the preference file at all, and that its ok as it is.
I think you're probably right about preferences changing as Adobe adds new features or adjusts old ones. But that should not prevent an update from preserving my preferences.
Not having used Adobe's mainline apps in many years, I wonder if the same behavior exists for a product such as Photoshop? If I was a professional graphics artist and had "tuned" my copy of Photoshop to fit my style and usage to a fine degree, and then Adobe ignored all that when it pushed a Creative Cloud update, I'd be more than upset.
As Glenn has indicated, you have not updated the old program, you have installed a new one. Now, while I may agree with you that it would be nice to transfer the settings from one version to another, there are perhaps only a dozen mouse clicks that I have to make to get my view and preferences restored to my liking. I don't think I would describe this minor annoyance as totally unacceptable.
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