2025 Elements Editor Will not Launch

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December 1, 2024
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I just bought and installed Elements 2025. The organizer works fine, and I converted all my catalogs and
reconnected my media. But now when I "Edit with Photoshop Elements
Editor" or launch the editor in any way, it does nothing. It did
launch successfully a few times earlier, but now it will not. Sometimes I get
the message "Loading Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor Workspace" but it
hangs there for about a minute and then disappears. Is there a log somewhere I can use to troubleshoot?

Newer Asus Zenbook, 16 GB RAM, 8.7GB in use

Windows 11

Correct answer Greg_S.

I think you are the third or fourth user to report a similar problem in the past few days. This could be just coincidence, but I'm going to report it to Adobe. In the meantime, here are some trouble-shooting questions and suggestions:

How large is your catalog?
Do you have auto sync to the Elements Web turned on? If so, try turning it off in Preferences.
Try turning off all Media Analysis in Edit>Preferences>Media Analysis
After rebooting the computer, try double-clicking on the PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe file in the following folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2025
Do you have a wifi printer?

Greg_S.

Community Expert

@PaulDG, right-click on the exe file and use the context menu to Send to>Desktop (Shortcut)..

My preferred way to open the Editor directly is to pin it to the Task Bar.

Greg_S.

Correct answer

Community Expert

I think you are the third or fourth user to report a similar problem in the past few days. This could be just coincidence, but I'm going to report it to Adobe. In the meantime, here are some trouble-shooting questions and suggestions:

How large is your catalog?
Do you have auto sync to the Elements Web turned on? If so, try turning it off in Preferences.
Try turning off all Media Analysis in Edit>Preferences>Media Analysis
After rebooting the computer, try double-clicking on the PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe file in the following folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2025
Do you have a wifi printer?

brets14660800Author

Participant

My catalog has 10,000+ photos, so fairly large. Auto sync was turned off (the default). I did disable media analysis in preferences, and that may have helped. Before this change, when I quit the editor, I still saw its process running in task manager, and it would not launch again without killing this processes manually. But after disabling analysis and auto-creations (I think?), that may have fixed it.

brets14660800Author

Participant

I see I posted in the wrong forum. Cannot see a way to edit or delete the post. Ugh Adobe.

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