P: LrC 14.5 Edit in Photoshop does not work when opening RAW photos

It was a Premiere Pro, now it's LR  after the update, I can’t even open files in Photoshop directly from Lightroom anymore. Normally, after editing in Lightroom, I’d send the file to Photoshop as an edit file—but now it just doesn’t open. The only way is to export and then open, which defeats the purpose. This bug is beyond frustrating. Day by day, Adobe makes it harder to stick with their products. We’re paying a premium every month for software that keeps breaking—it feels like abuse at this point and makes me wanna quit all the software and shift to different platform. 

@Martin Soeteman 

When Photoshop is set as the alternative editor, LrC doesn't 'know' that it is Photoshop, so it cannot open raw files as it does when the Photoshop editor setting is used.

LR version: 14.5

PS version: 26,9

PS beta version: 26.11

I have read trough many topics of this issue and I have done it all like uninstall>install LR and PS. Reset the prefs, but it is still not working on my brandnew macbook pro.

I also installed PS beta as a additional external editor and this works fine. So that is very strange to me. So wondering why the prefered external editor PS is not working. Is there a bug in this release of PS??

What I notice that if I use the prefered editor, LR does not come up with the confirmation popup asking "edit a copy with lightroom adjustments" and that LR is not exporting anything. Usually you will see a short progress bar at the top left corner. telling that LR is exporting the image. When I select the additional external editor I do get this popup. 

The settings for both editors are the same in the prefs.

Do you have any idea??

@Titera 

"manually add Photoshop.exe as a secondary external editor in Lightroom’s Preferences"

This is not the best solution since it can lead to other problems.

I have no issues with Edit In Adobe Photoshop 2025 or Edit In Adobe Photoshop (beta) on my Windows 11 PC.

Other than ensuring there is no apostrophe in any of the image file paths, you could try uninstalling LrC and Ps, then reinstall Ps first followed by LrC.

Updated lightroom to 14.5 and Photoshop 26.9 won't open lightroom edited TIFF files only original TIFF files. Running MacOS 15.5 on an Apple Mi Pro. 

I did what someone else said they did and uninstalled LRC14.5 and reinstalled 14.4 and that works the way is did before the up date..

I actually reinstalled OS on my Mac Studio and reinstalled everything again, and that still did not resolve the issue.

hopefully this will work for everyone else having the same issue.

People having this issue, please report if you use external drive.

I was able to resolve the issue.

Firstly I work on Mac Studio and save all photos on an external drive.

I rename my external drive and used find missing folder in Lightroom to established the paths in the renamed drive to my photos.
Once I did that edit in photoshop started working.

It seems the new Lightroom update does something with the external drive photo paths and restablishing these paths resolve the issue at least for me.

I'm havng the same issues as the rest of them here. I have a Mac mini m4 Sequoia15.6 PS 26.9 LRC 14.5. No issue til this UD.Runs on LR no issues. Uninstalled both once nothing has fixed it. No (') Like everone I have things to do and can't get them done.Hope you fix this soon..

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