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VERED1
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January 8, 2020
Question

Lightroom error "The file could not be edited"

  • January 8, 2020
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HELLO,

 I GET THE MEESSAGE:

"THE FILE COULD NOT BE EDITE BECAUSE ...COULD NOT BE LAUNCHED.

 

WHEN I USE LIGHTROOM. I DOWNLOOD PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS.

 

WHAT CAN I DO?

THANK YOU!

 

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Sahil.Chawla
Adobe Employee
Sahil.Chawla
Adobe Employee
January 8, 2020

Hi there,

Not sure If I understand the issue correctly, could you please let us know what application and version you're working on? 
And what application is showing the error message?

Doing some research on other threads, it could be one of 3 issues. A damaged installation (uninstall and reinstall Photoshop to fix), a permissions issue (create a new Admin user account and try running from the new account to confirm), 3rd party plug-ins (remove all 3rd party plug-ins).

Regards,
Sahil

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daniellek63096611
Participant
January 9, 2020

I also have this problem and have for a few weeks to maybe a month or longer now. I'm not sure when it started. I have the adobe suite photography plan. My process when I get this problematic error message is editing in LR classic > Photo>Edit In>Edit in Adobe Photoshop 2020 and it's all grayed out now before it would actually try to open the file and I would get that message but now it's just grayed out and I don't even have the option to try to edit in. 

 

I did try to use the Adobe Cleaner Tool and maybe that is what grayed out that option...? Regardless it been an issue for a while.

P.S. All my apps are current and up to date. 

Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 9, 2020

For daniellek63096611-

it's all grayed out

Two reasons why the [Edit-In] can be greyed out in Lightroom-CLASSIC-

1) the original photo file is 'Missing' in the Catalog and Lightroom-Classic does not know its location. (showing the ! )

Have you moved or deleted any files?

2) You are using Smart Previews and the Original file is not available. (eg. a usb disk with the original files is not connected)

 

For VERED1

The error message-  "(Photoshop Elements? ) could not be launched" is a different problem.

More details about your software version numbers and complete (screen-clips) error messages may help an answer.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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