PL5.14.1 running on macOS 13.5.2 does not open images directly .

PL5.14.1 running on macOS 13.5.2 does not open images directly . It has also crashed several times and can be very slow to open. Can I go back to an earlier version, mine is build 97. At present it is almost unusable

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What do you mean by this? Open DPL with a double-click on the image file?