Photoshop Window Extensions Missing

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Nina Zahra

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Aug 3, 2024, 1:43:34 PM8/3/24

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After installing the latest update of PS all my 3rd party plugins are gone. I was trying to reinstall them, but still, they're not appearing in the program. The only thing that's still working is Raya Pro, but it's installed with the Creative Cloud plugins section.

Does anyone have any idea how to recover the "old" plugins that suppose to be visible under the "window" menu? I was trying to reinstall the plugins, both with a script and manually ad it doesn't help. Maybe there's some different folder now where I should put the extensions that I'm not aware of?

-> Filters work when working on an image until you load an image they are gray. I think the problem is the one discovered by Piotrek, old extensions cannot be enabled in preferences and plugins. We hope for future updates. Maybe Adobe could warn

Please note that Extensions are not supported for Mac computer using the M1 processor. Please try and find plugins with the same functionality or contact the extension owner to get your extensions ported to UXP to run as native on M1 devices.

hello, I have another problem , may be you have the same . After the upgade to version 22.3, all the filters are ligth grey , can't be opened. No chance. In afddition , tried to use the pen and the program crashed. I also lost all the plug-in.

For the moment the only solution for me was to downgrade back to 22.2. I'm also wondering if it's on the Adobe's side, or maybe the plugins authors have to recode the extensions since the update is mostly for the M1 Macs, so PS can work natively. Or is it something that Adobe have to fix and the processor type doesn't matter?

What you can do is to run the new version (22.3) under Rosetta. This is the only way I found to get the extension working. Of course we lose the advantages of runnning on M1 but I hope this is only temporary.

I just upgraded to the new native photoshop for mac M1 chips, however my external extensions are now gone (tk panel, tm panel, orion...). I tried intalling them again with no luck. Does photoshop not support them for the time being?

Absolutely not. There is nothing for Adobe to fix. It's a new architecture, and plug-in authors must ALL make new plug-ins. May will not do this and many plug-ins will be lost forever if you run native on M1. Within a few years, there will be no choice.

Well, no surprise at all to people who are Mac developers. But I do not say at all that Photoshop users should somehow have know this. The people at Adobe who are really technical (developers) will have known from the moment M1 was announced, but it is not their job to communicate with customers. There is another layer of people for that who (a) may not have this developer knowledge and (b) aren't necessarily immersed in the world of the end user, so as to realise that plug-ins are not just interesting, but vital. Anyway, yes, I think Adobe could certainly have communicated this more, certainly could have qualified every talk of "M1 native" with this info. But that might be seen as negative, and big companies have people in charge of removing everything negative from every presentation and manual. Apple will have known too, but it's their job to sell new hardware.

"And what is the difference between Extensions and Plugin ? Will both of need to be rewritten for the M1 version ?" That I don't know. Because, while I make plug-ins for Adobe products, I don't make them for Photoshop. It's about whether they are written in C, which is not something a customer can even know. Can anyone clarify? I observe an Adobe reply saying " Please note that Extensions are not supported for Mac computer using the M1 processor. Please try and find plugins with the same functionality "

The question is: will adobe allow for these plugins to be loaded in the future or is there a fundamental incompatibility with the M1 version photoshop that imposes completely new codes for the plugin ?

There seem to have been many articles, posts and tweets regarding the issue of Adobe Photoshop saving files without the three character file extension being added.Another bug from Adobe you're wondering. Not quite, not this time. Although, there are some frustrating 'features' added to the new CC updates. For now though,let's talk about this annoyance of the missing file extensions.

For some reason, in the latest versions of Photoshop, whenever I saved a file and then viewed that file in Mac finder,the file name was missing the extension. Whether it be .jpg .tif or .psd. Now, as I don't have time for fanny-ing aroundwith such a laborious task of manually adding extensions to my files I trawled the web for an answer.After some research and digging around, praise the almighty one, I found the answer.

I've been trying to find a way to get tabs showing multiple files opened in CC. This was never a problem when I had CS6, but they are missing. I've tried the following whilst ensuring I have more than one photo opened: Interface>open documents as tabs is checked, Window>Arrange>Consolidate all to tabs (doesn't fix the issue), using as "photography" is checked, tab using "F" key doesn't make any difference either.

No, I've tried all of those (I want the tabs going horizontally with their file names at the top in their own separate tool bar like I've always had but it's entirely missing). I should mention, I have an imac working with an Eizo CG247 monitor (Eizo is my colour managed screen). The only way I can get tabs is floating on the imac screen, separate to the Photoshop frame by clicking window>tile>window>application frame but they show on the imac as floating separately and I cannot drag anything back to the Eizo screen.

There is more than one photo open via Bridge. The photo file names, and their toolbar with tabs are not there. I'm not sure what you mean re where are the panels... this is what is showing when I tab via F key.

Application frame is greyed out in the second photo which is when I've pressed F to return to where the tools are. If I click "application frame" when I press F and it's on the blank screen, then the photo appears floating on the imac but I can't get it back to the Eizo (dragging bounces it back to the iMac) and also it is separate from the workings of Photoshop and cannot be dragged into place to attach it to the Photoshop frame layout.

I had a horrible problem with photoshop CS6 hanging on Windows 7. I ended up uninstalling like 500 fonts to fix the problem. Now some webpages do not look right, they are clearly using the wrong font. Seems likely Chrome or Windows is substituting another font for one it doesn't have. How I can tell what fonts it wants? I don't want to just add back hundreds of fonts because I suspect photoshop will break again, but if I knew which were needed I could probably add back a few dozen.

open the web developer tools. All modern browsers have that, here you should see some warnings/errors. Maybe it shows you which font it requires. Also run sfc /scannow to detect missing buildin Windows fonts.

Have a look Photoshop Font Detector( -font-detector/), it is a free Photoshop panel plugin, and it can list all fonts(including missing fonts) in your PSD document, then you can install these specific missing fonts on your computer.

This isn't ideal because you have to realize a wrong font was displayed. Instead I would like a log of some kind so after a day or week of surfing around, I can see what fonts I'm missing. Anyone have way to find any and all fonts missing during regular surfing?

I'm trying to figure out why the Tools>Extensions bar won't appear. In fact, it won't appear from any dropdown, simply saying 'No Extensions.' I wanted to copy track to pip, but none of the extensions will appear. Scripts will appear, but the copy track to pip isn't there either. I have the free trial, but I couldn't find anything on that affecting it. I looked through AppData, and found that the extensions seemed to be missing there too. I'm on Windows 11, and have had no other real problems besides sometimes not fully saving projects and relying on autosave, which I don't think is related.

If what you are referring to is "Copy Motion Track to PiP.cs" a Search of the forums suggests the script was removed along about VP18. That same Search also reveals a download link for that script, that may still work in Vegas 20, in this post:

@Musicvid I'm simply curious to learn as much as I can about the program. And I wanted to ask, where should I save the code to? The Extensions folder in AppData? Maybe Scripts? I'm not familiar with this process, and I'd rather not mess anything up trying to do something I don't fully understand. I didn't see anything in the script or the other comment about using it.