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Photoshop hijacking file associations (Mac)

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Dec 20, 2017 Dec 20, 2017

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Hi People,

I'm running an iMac with El Capitan OS, and have

the 2017 versions of many Adobe apps, including

Photoshop and Illustrator installed.

A month ago, suddenly, all of my desktop PNG and

JPG icons were taken over by Illustrator (instead of

'Preview' - the fast and simple system default viewer).

Every time I would boot up, I would have to re-assign

PNG's and JPG's to Preview, else when I clicked them,

I'm faced with a laborious wait time for Illustrator to

load.

Because I never used Illustrator, I renamed the app,

which seemed to temporarily solve the problem, but

now Photoshop has taken over the PNG's and JPG's.

I'm not sure if this is an Adobe issue or a Mac OS issue,

but it gets really annoying to have to re-assign the file

associations every time I boot up.

Any advice or feedback appreciated.

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