You can usually fix these things with a bit of detective work. Or use the Photoshop file location link to work out were things shoud be, and search to find where they actually are. Just an adition to the above, when you have this sort of issue, it nearly always helps to work out the file format - in this case. Thanks in advance to anyone who knows what's happening with this and can share how 3rd party plugins/filters porting to the latest Ps generation are being handled! Has that design been changed by Adobe? I don't want to lose any filters (especially 'classic' ones doing manual copying processes that I was glad to stop doing in recent years past - plus they end up in multiple file hierarchies & add to memory consumption if we retain older Ps versions for various reasons. We used to have to ensure our 3rd party plugins/filters were in a Ps Common Programs folder (or some name like that) to ensure they'd carry forward without us manually having to copy all our filters/plugins to the comparable file hierarchy in each successive annual update. Is that a general bug/known issue for Windows (or, all) users? After seeing those posts, I'm holding off updating to Ps 2024 (commercial rel. I've seen posts by other Win users saying their 3rd party plugins (aka, Filters) didn't carry forward & install into the new Ps 2024 from prior annual Ps releases.