is it possible as Photoshop apparently was designed by NASA and likes redundancy... most if not all of my plug ins do not work with 64 bit, so i see no point in having it on my system. Can I do it ?

as it installs both versions without a prompt to the user, i'm not sure they can be separated easily.

i haven't had the joy  (or problem) with this issue, but i'll look deeper.

scott

No, you can’t uninstall just PS 64-bit in the normal way (aka: programs/uninstall).

I did see if just temporarily deleting the folder containing the 64-bit version had any ill effects.
Photoshop CS5 32-bit and Bridge did open and run as usual, BUT that is not to say some problem can or will appear later on down the line.

 My advice is to just keep the64-bit version on.

It’s not Photoshop that is being redundant, but the third-party plugin makers dragging their heels.   

In the near future, most of the major players (Nik, onOne, etc.) will have compiled their plugins for 64-bit, and you really want to take full advantage of that.

chuck
 

I meant redundant by installing BOTH versions of Photoshop... is this due to the nature of the many many plugins and lack of compatability ?

FYI, i tried to uninstall it and it took all my fonts and forced me to do a system restore...not good on a 3 week old machine :(

I understood what you were getting at, and yes it is for the reason that many plugins are not 64-bit compatible (yet).

The problem (for the third-party guys) was CS4 was 64-bit for PC only and not ready for 64-bit Mac users.
They had to wait for CS5 (which supports both 64-bit OS’s) to see what they had to work with for their recompiling.

As a side note: My personal opinion is that maybe around PS CS7, Adobe won’t even offer Photoshop in a 32-bit version.
They are already moving that way with both the new CS5 versions of After Effects and Premier Pro being only 64-bit.

Oh… and sorry to hear about your unsuccessful uninstall attempt.

Adobe products do such a deep system install, that when you mess around with them, they commit Hara-kiri.

chuck

 yeah as swamp mentioned you can do a "pseudo" uninstall by dumping the folder, but you won't really find a problem until you try to use plugin that isn't supported by the 32bit version and the app crashes.

i'd leave both and just deal with the loss of drive space (about 500mb i think...) . 

L8r
scott

Yeah, this is what i chose to do, i just think it is odd thats alll... but upon this thread i guess it makes sence. I am using CS4, and theres a ton of plug-ins i wouldnt so without

how is the new CS 5 for HDR conversion ?

Why don't you just use the 32bit version of Photoshop you can then use all your plugins, that is what I do, works fine. You might have to associate all your files in Bridge so that it opens automatically in the 32 bit version as opposed to the 64 bit version.