[X-Apps] An ugly way that Adobe does stuff?

[Judy Antipin]

This is not unique to Adobe. Changing the name of the application can 
prevent it from being recognized by other components of the software 
which are programmed to look for a specific name. In the same way, if 
you do a search, and enter the search string incorrectly, your search 
will fail to deliver what you expected.

Judy Antipin

Robert Ameeti wrote:

>I changed the name of my Photoshop 7.0 application to Photoshop 7.0.1 and the icon went generic app. The dock icon also went generic. The application wouldn't open giving me a file is the wrong type error.
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>Changing the name back to Photoshop 7.0 returned everything back to normal!
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>What the heck is that all about? Is this the way that Adobe works or has anyone seen this in other apps as well?
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