'Open with ...' options and Photoshop

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Jorl Shefner < > wrote:

 > I recently installed Photoshop CS and I was really annoyed to find
 > that it added 25 commands to the 'Open with' dialogue box. These
 > include all kinds of obscure commands like "Make Button.exe" and "Metal
 > Slide Thumbnail.exe" that now appear if I right-click on an image.
 > How can I edit the items that show up here to only include
 > Applications?

You can't edit the applications that show up but all those obscure
commands are really just sample "droplets". Droplets are
mini-applications that do only one specific set of actions.

Since those are samples and you probably don't need them you can delete
or archive them. Go into your Photoshop CS folder and then open
Samples:Droplets You'll see two folders "ImageReady Droplets" and
"Photoshop Droplets" Either drag them to the trash and empty the trash
or right-click each folder and select "Create Archive of" for each
folder, then delete the original folders. You'll still have a menu item
of "Droplet Template" but you want to keep this one.

 > On a related note, it there any way to change file associations that
 > really works for all files? If I select the "Use this application to
 > open all documents like this" from the "Get Info" menu, it does not get
 > applied universally. If I have previously saved an image in Photoshop
 > Elements, for instance, it will still open in this, rather than
 > Photoshop CS, when I double click on the file.

You should be able to take a Photoshop Elements file and change the file
association so that it will open with CS. Do it from the "Get Info"
menu, select an Elements file and get info. Then set "open with" to CS
and click the Change All button. That should make all your Elements
documents (with the same extension or file type) open with CS.

Because Apple is using both file types and file type extensions it isn't
universally applied. You might have to do it to a number of Elements
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Heather Donahue <nospam RemoveThis @sonic.net> wrote:
 >
 > Since those are samples and you probably don't need them you can delete
 > or archive them. Go into your Photoshop CS folder and then open
 > Samples:Droplets You'll see two folders "ImageReady Droplets" and
 > "Photoshop Droplets" Either drag them to the trash and empty the trash
 > or right-click each folder and select "Create Archive of" for each
 > folder, then delete the original folders. You'll still have a menu item
 > of "Droplet Template" but you want to keep this one.

Thanks, that worked.

 > You should be able to take a Photoshop Elements file and change the file
 > association so that it will open with CS. Do it from the "Get Info"
 > menu, select an Elements file and get info. Then set "open with" to CS
 > and click the Change All button. That should make all your Elements
 > documents (with the same extension or file type) open with CS.
 >
 > Because Apple is using both file types and file type extensions it isn't
 > universally applied. You might have to do it to a number of Elements
 > file types.

Yes, it seems you are right. If I save a JPEG in Photoshop, and then
double click it, it will open in Photoshop. If I then save it in
Preview, the JPEG will open Preview thereafter, even if my default is
set to Photoshop. There is apparently no way to set a preferred
application to be used for the JPEG type, for instance. Does mean that
JPEGs saved by Photoshop are actually a different type than JPEGs saved
by Preview?

I guess I can see why some people might prefer this behavior, but
it's not as intuitive for me. The only way to know what application
will be used for a particular file is to first view the "Get Info"
window, or specifically select the application from the context menu
(which is what I've been doing).

Thanks for the help.

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Jorl Shefner wrote:

 > I recently installed Photoshop CS and I was really annoyed to find
 > that it added 25 commands to the 'Open with' dialogue box. These
 > include all kinds of obscure commands like "Make Button.exe" and "Metal
 > Slide Thumbnail.exe" that now appear if I right-click on an image.
 > How can I edit the items that show up here to only include
 > Applications?

Unfortunately, those stupid little droplet thingies *are* "Applications",
so they show up on the list. Assuming you don't want to go to the trouble
to edit the Info.plist for every one of the things, if you go into the
Photoshop CS folder, and open the Samples folder, there's a folder in
there called Droplets. Compress it to a .zip file and delete the folder,
and most of those dumb things should be gone. You'll never miss them.

 > On a related note, it there any way to change file associations that
 > really works for all files? If I select the "Use this application to
 > open all documents like this" from the "Get Info" menu, it does not get
 > applied universally. If I have previously saved an image in Photoshop
 > Elements, for instance, it will still open in this, rather than
 > Photoshop CS, when I double click on the file.

Telling it to use for "all documents like this" really means you're telling
it to set that as the default for those documents. A document with a
creator application specifically set will override the default; that's just
how it's supposed to work. You'd have to change those specifically.

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