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1. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Ian R. Brown Nov 4, 2009 5:48 AM (in response to Ian R. Brown)Very weird! It has now started opening the same photos correctly in PSE8.
I did change a couple of preferences but have changed them back and it still works OK.
Any suggestions for this odd behaviour would still be welcome.
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2. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Barbara B. Nov 4, 2009 6:39 AM (in response to Ian R. Brown)You set the behavior for double clicking a thumbnail in Bridge>preferences>file type associations
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3. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Ian R. Brown Nov 4, 2009 7:50 AM (in response to Barbara B.)Thank you Barbara, I now know what to do if I get the problem again.
However, in all my fiddlings with the preferences I did not touch those settings at all, either with PSE8 or last year with CS3. (I didn't realise what they were until your explanation!)
So there must be some other factor at work, maybe a combination of key strokes etc. that can accidentally change them or alter the default picture opening application.
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4. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Barbara B. Nov 4, 2009 7:51 AM (in response to Ian R. Brown)There should not be. Are you sure it was the same file type from the same source?
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5. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Ian R. Brown Nov 4, 2009 8:10 AM (in response to Barbara B.)Definitely, they were exactly the same photos.
Last night they were OK. This morning they all reverted to Preview, then suddenly they were back to the correct opening in PSE8.
The only preferences I altered were to make Bridge launch with PSE8 and also the "Double-Click Edits Camera Raw Settings in Bridge".
I deselected the latter because I suddenly found my normal .jpgs were opening in the Camera Raw Window! Since reselecting it my pictures open in the "normal" window. (My cameras don't shoot Raw).
Obviously there are some gremlins at work, and no, I am the only one who uses the computer and there are no pets in the house!
If this were happening with Final Cut Pro I would immediately trash the preferences.
Anyway, although I don't know what caused it, I now know how to cure it.
Incidentally, I have also got PS CS3 on the same computer ............
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6. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Ian R. Brown Nov 4, 2009 8:39 AM (in response to Ian R. Brown)I don't believe it!
The same JPEGs started opening again in Preview.
I checked the file type associations and they were correctly set for PSE8.
So in desperation I clicked "Reset to Default File Associations", nothing changed in the preferences (as they were correctly configured to start with) but the photos immediately started opening correctly.
Obviously something dodgy with my computer, or having CS3 installed or because I upgraded to Snow Leopard yesterday. Too many variables to pin it down to one cause.
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7. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Barbara B. Nov 4, 2009 11:46 AM (in response to Ian R. Brown)One thing-- are you sure you are using the same version of bridge? You say you had CS3 bridge, but PSE 8 installs CS4 bridge. Are you using the same version of bridge each time?
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8. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Ian R. Brown Nov 4, 2009 12:44 PM (in response to Barbara B.)Yes, I am only using CS4 Bridge with PSE8. I checked there was no mixing of that kind.
I must say that after reading the PSE8 installation instructions I was expecting the installer to ask me to remove CS3 but it looks as though those requests only apply with CS4.
Anyway, at the moment it's no problem as I know how to cure it, but it is curious.
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9. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Barbara B. Nov 4, 2009 1:06 PM (in response to Ian R. Brown)Yes, very strange. You might want to try manually deleting the bridge .plist file and see if it works better after that. (your username>library>preferences folder, delete com.adobe.bridge.plist).
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10. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Ian R. Brown Nov 4, 2009 1:33 PM (in response to Barbara B.)I trashed the .plist, expecting Bridge to open exactly as it did when first installed, but no, the general interface/background was very pale and insipid, compared with the original dark (almost black) one. (Obviously, I have now adjusted it to get my preferred appearance).
So it looks as though on installation the default setting was different from the default created by preference trashing. I don't think that proves anything but it is unusual.
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11. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
xAirbusdriver Nov 4, 2009 1:48 PM (in response to Ian R. Brown)The Mac has always used two four character 'codes' to associate a file with its 'TYPE" and its "CREATOR." But Apple has been warning developers for a couple of years that it might change that system. Apparently, in Snow Leopard, Apple did just that. They claim they did this for better compatibility since no other file system/OS uses this very useful system, even though some could. This data has usually been in the 'resource fork' file that Windows (and its users could see but had no idea what it was for. The beauty of the old system is that two files of the same type (text, for example) could be opened by two different programs, namely the programs that created them. Quite logical, in my humble opinion. Not to Apple.
Snow Leopard now has as its first rule, to use the preset apps that Apple decided it wants to use. Text should open in TextEdit, regardless of what app created it. html should open in Safari, even though the text file was created by BBEdit. jpegs were assigned to Preview, regardless... and, despite the efforts of Bridge, that is what is probably happening. The inconsistencies you are seeing may be the ongoing battle between Bridge and Snow Leopard! Or maybe not.
Since I create web pages with BBEdit, I want that app to open any file it created. So I selected an html file and changed the info in its Get Info window and told the OS to do that with any and all html files that are double-clicked. I'd suggest you do a similar change with the jpegs/tiffs/gifs/pngs/etc. that you want to edit in Elements. You should have to edit the info in one Get Info window for each type.
Of course, you can also use the right-click/option-click and use the Contextual Menu to force the OS to use whatever you want to open any file. That probably will not work in Bridge, of course. But you can give it a try. And it will simply take longer...might as well learn new habits because we all know that Apple (and Adobe?) know what's best for us. LOL! Apple claims the new system should be used by developers, but I have seen many of them explain why it won't work. It now will depend almost entirely on the three/four character suffix text at the end of a file name. It's the beginning of the end of one of the most useful and efficient file opening systems ever created. One of the major things that made even old, pre-OS X systems so easy to use and one of the things that was so much better than any other OS, IMHO. This change is called "progress." My definition includes words like "better" and/or "easier." Apparently Apple's definition doesn't use/need/want those words. :head bash:
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12. Re: PSE8 - Photos double-clicked in Bridge open in Preview?
Ian R. Brown Nov 5, 2009 1:05 AM (in response to xAirbusdriver)Thanks for those interesting suggestions, however, I feel they may not be the cause of yesterday's experiences because I had the same thing happen over a year ago with CS3 when I was using Leopard. I know that isn't conclusive proof but it does indicate there may be some other reason.
With regard to editing the opening application in Get Info, that would also cause problems because there will often be occasions when I am working with other apps such as Preview and CS3 etc.
I'm tending to think it might have been corrupt preferences as I was frequently launching and quitting both PSE8 and CS3 yesterday ...... I know I shouldn't do that normally.
5 Minutes Later:
I just broke off to open PSE8 to see how it was this morning. Using the same photos as before I double-clicked one and it opened in Preview!
I then opened several others (including the original one) and they have all opened correctly in PSE8.


