Andrew, thanks, tried that a bunch of times does not work. the dropdown reverts back to CS4. I'ts become quite complex. but I would love to see if you can lick/solve this. It's driving me nuts! Still at first base. Try it out for yourself. You'll see what I'm talking about.
Here is where I am with Mark D on luminous landscape:
Ok Mark,
Just did what you said. Well first I went into Bridge preference and changed all preferences for jpeg, tiff, and psd to CS3.
Then in bridge opened a tiff and CS4 still launched.
so then I forced quit CS4, and launched CS3 manaully. They opened up a tiff and it opened in CS3.
But when I went to find to try to change all files to open in CS3, CS4 is still listed as default and it wont change.
It like this stubborn Mac thing that wont let CS4 not be the king or something
__________________ MAC 10.4.12
CS4
Mac G5/ dual 1.8
CANON 5D
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
The files are opened by default by the version of Photoshop that was installed last. You can't specify another version (well, you can, but it doesn't stick) because all versions of Photoshop have the same creator code, so the Finder can't distinguish between them. If you really want CS3 to open as default, you'll have to uninstall CS3 and then install it again, so it was installed last. That should do the trick.
You can use a trick we alpha/beta testers use when we're not supposed to launch the prerelease when clicking on a document; zip the application. Unzip when you want to use it.
__________________ Andrew Rodney
Author "Color Management for Photographers" http://www.digitaldog.net
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Johan, thanks for that info. No one on Macfixit could provide that definitive info. I did say there though that I find it bizarre that they can't or don't have different creator codes for differnt versions.
Andrew, Yes I want a workaround as without one, I will have to either always have CS3 running, or other tedious workarounds.
But I don't understand. I actually did archive (zip) CS4, and then went to uninstall it, but was shocked to discover that one cannot uninstall CS4 without also uninstalling BRidge from CS4. You see I love BRidge CS4 but just want to get rid of Photoshop
CS4. In short I want to use Photoshop CS3, and Bridge CS4, and have my images default opening to CS3. Normally the change all (command i) does the trick, but not in this case, for reasons Johan just mentioned. I'm loathe to have to uninstall CS3 and reinstall -- due to all annoyance that involves ( ie actions, plug in, preference etc). Did I miss your point? You probably assumed I wanted to go back to Bridge CS3 as well?
__________________ MAC 10.4.12
CS4
Mac G5/ dual 1.8
CANON 5D
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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