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crysania4
Known Participant
June 1, 2023

P: Lightroom Classic>Edit in PS: Long Delay+Erroneous Error Message opening Ps Beta 2024 25.0

  • June 1, 2023
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I just recently updated Photoshop Beta to 2024 v25.0 on my Windows 11 machine.

 

Now when I try to open photos from LR 12.4 using the "edit in...", it hangs up for a time and then comes up saying "The file could not be edited because Adobe Photoshop 2024 could not be launched."

 

When I hit "Ok" it then opens the file in Photoshop 2024. 

 

This happens with every file, even if Photoshop 2024 is already up and running at the time. 

 

This does not happen with 2023 v24.7.

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Participating Frequently
August 15, 2023

Can someone help me to stop getting 50 emails a day on this post? I've turned over every notification on my preferences yet the emails still keep blowing my phone up all day. I want to keep up but this is ridiculous. Thanks! I see the email me with someone replies under this reply preview. I'm unchecking it and hoping that stops it but if I didn't on my other replies am I just stuck? The option isn't there to go edit and remove it on the old replies that I can find either. 

boisNgyrls
Known Participant
August 15, 2023

If the photo has been previously edited in PS, it will open without error mostly.  Those photos that has never been PS, and was originally in RAW or jepg format in LRc, you will get the error.  Techically the link is working but this link doesn't recognize file extension other than .TIF. It's probably the reason some people reported "it works sometime but not working now". 

 

It is a very simple patch but it's weird that adobe don't patch it quickly.

Known Participant
August 15, 2023

As far as I know, Lightroom classic is not in beta and it's there that the problem is situated. So don't be so arrogant as to teach subscribers a lesson about beta versions. best regards. 

AxelMatt
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 15, 2023

A quick workaround can be to export in Lightroom the appropriate picture as a .psd-file and then open this file manually in PS 2025 

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz Photo
Earth Oliver
Legend
August 15, 2023

More than 2 weeks later and this major bug still has not been patched? I'm having a hard time believing that the fix would really be that complicated considering that this same bug has happened a dozen or more times over the past few years.
Is everything OK over at Adobe?

Participant
August 15, 2023

I'm having a siniliar issue on an iMac and I need help. I updated to version 25 beta, it will not open when I click edit in photoshop beta from Lightroom. 
It's set up for external editing in beta, and will open but nothing moves over. Then I went back to the older version before the 25 update and it was working fine until last night. Now everytime I use generative fill, it says I need to update to the new version. I uninstalled photoshop and beta many times now and still isn't working 

Inspiring
August 15, 2023

A temporary fix for Photoshop beta v 25 for Windows.

To set this up so both apps work in Adobe Lightroom preferences select as your second open as in preference go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2023\ and select Photoshop.EXE.

  1. To edit a file right click and select edit in then click Photoshop.exe then click with Edit a copy with LR adjustments.
  2. Close PS and it will save the file to Lightroom (my settings are set to save as a tiff file). You must close PS 2023.
  3. Go to edit in again and click Photoshop 2024 (first choice for open in is the beta version) then chose Edit original. You can now use beta 2025 to edit in. Do your work and close.
  4. Go back to Lightroom and if you see a window saying that it could not open the file go to File Explorer and find the tiff file that you just saved and move it to a new location or rename it. If you do not Photoshop beta will overwrite it and remove your edits.
  5. If necessary, you can right click and synchronize the folders to get your file back in Lightroom and continue editing in Lightroom beta which now recognizes that file and will open it. Opening as layers does not work. Selecting more than one wile to open works.

We volunteer to let Adobe know what does and does not work on thousands of different computers. Our reports aid the engineers in fixing issues. Only those willing to risk things not working as expected should participate. People who rely on LR & PS for work should not risk beta testing. 

Participant
August 15, 2023

UPDATE!!!!!!

 

Here is a work around for everyone who is still having issues that has worked for me. Install the update for V.25 of photoshop beta, but then go and reinstall Lightroom Classic version 12.2.1

 

Thats the issue and I hope they get it fixed soon, but that is a definitely solid workaround for the time being. 

Blessings 

Participating Frequently
August 15, 2023

No fix yet and a super awkward official workaround given by a multi-billion dollar company... Things are getting utterly ridiculous.

Participating Frequently
August 15, 2023

Adove has not fixed the big bug in  Photoshop Beta version 25 until today

I find it highly ridicoulous to suggest to install a faulty version and disconnect the user who does not update of the GenAI