Need help - lost all photoshop file associations

If this is something stoooopid on my part, I apologize in advance.

I've been running Photoshop CS5 (windows) on my machine since it officially released, and just today I finally got around to uninstalling CS4.

We'll, now I've lost all of my hooks into Photoshop. It doesn't come up in "edit" dialog on LR3, I've lost all explorer file associations, etc..

I'd appreciate any help.

Sounds like the un install has stripped associated files, suppose you could restore your pc to an earlier date, other than that uninstall CS5 and re install it HTH

Start Adobe Bridge and go to Edit > Preferences > File Type Associations.

Click the "Reset to Default Associations" Button and press OK.

PixelMagic wrote in post #10481230
Start Adobe Bridge and go to Edit > Preferences > File Type Associations.

Click the "Reset to Default Associations" Button and press OK.

I assumed he'd tried that first.

Just tried that. Didn't do anything for me. I can change things individually from there, but the reset all isn't having any effect.

You may need to reinstall LR3 -- I don't think there is a preference that you can change to re-point "Edit in Photoshop" (but I could be mistaken)...

This link has got me most of the way back to fully functional:

http://lightroomers.co​m …ing-to-photoshop-cs5/945/

Actually, more specifically, Solution #2 from this link...
http://kb2.adobe.com/c​ps/401/kb401629.html

Well, keep us posted. I'm sure you are not the first or the last one to have to tackle this!

I think the best course of action is solution #2 from the 2nd link I posted, followed by the adobe bridge tip listed earlier.

Hmm, this is interesting. I upgraded from CS4 to CS5 and all my file associations appeared to be okay in Bridge.

I then uninstalled CS4 and all the file associations in Bridge were lost and it looked as if I would have to individually re-set them. Wasn’t looking forward to this!

Instead, I inserted my CS5 installation disc and re-installed the software and then ran the Upgrade from within CS5 (Help – Updates) which then proceeded to re-install all the updates since my CS5 disc was manufactured and shipped.

After all the updates had downloaded, all the file associations in Bridge appeared to have been re-generated!

Cheers

Dennis

I read that was a possibility, it's actually solution #1 in my 2nd link. Personally, I'm comfortable editing the registry, and think it was much quicker to fix it that, once you know what is necessary of course.

Will this help?

No.

Removing the old version of photoshop, even though the new version is still installed, removes a registry entry that basically tells Windows about the existance of photoshop.exe, and the path to it.

Without that information, no file type associations can be made.

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