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P: "Edit in PS 2014" opens PS 2014 in Wrong Location

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November 12, 2014
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Software bug. MAC OS X Yosemite (and Mavericks before it). Using LR 5.6 & Photoshop CC2014.2.1 CC subscription. When an external firewire backup drive is connected (the backup drive is a clone of my MacBook Pro that stays connected for scheduled automatic backups, etc.), when I am in Lightroom and I select "Edit (an image) in Photoshop", Photoshop opens in the wrong location. In other words, it opens the Photoshop application on my backup drive instead and I get a warning dialogue box that says "The application has been moved, and its path has changed. To update the product configuration, click update". I have a choice to update or not. Of course, I choose to not update that. That's a bug (in my opinion.) When the backup drive is not connected the correct PS 2014 application opens. Bottom line: I should be able to keep a backup drive connected and have the Edit in Photoshop open the correct application.

One way you could easily solve this issue is to change External Editing in Preferences - change the first listing where it shows by default "Edit in Adobe PS CC 2014" - simply have the the user actually confirm where the application is located, thus forcing the user to choose (and thus confirm) the location of the PS 2014 application on the primary volume that the user intends to lave Lightroom open (would be similar to what the user has to do to choose an additional external editor in the same Preferences panel.

I'e tried everything to solve this bug. Reinstalling PS 2014 does not work. Deleting plists files does not work. There seems to be no user workaround available. Please solve this problem with a fix. Thank you. James Farrell, Prescott, AZ - jamesfarrell7681@gmail.com

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Chris Crumley

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We have the Lightroom 5.7 and Photoshop CS6 Applications on a Mac in the Applications folder and also a backup copy on a hard drive connected to the same computer. In LR Preferences > External Editing where we specify Photoshop CS6 as the primary external editor, LR doesn't allow us to specify the path and sometimes LR opens the Photoshop CS6 App on the backup drive, which causes us to have app location issues. Can the path be added to the dialog specifying the primary external editor?

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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I also have this issue, and it occurs when opening a photo directly from the Finder, with the "Open With" option. Did NOT correct it by reselecting the correct program/location with the "Other" option at the bottom of the "Open With" context menu.

This may suggest an OS bug, not an Adobe bug.

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chicobandido-SteveBarker

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FYI, in case it helps the support people, I have encountered the same problem with Lightroom 5.7, but I also have the same problem directly from the OS. My OS is 10.10.2 (14C109).

If I find a PSD file, right-click on it, choose Open With..., and choose the latest version of Photoshop CC 2014, it opens the file using the application from the backup drive. This is without Lightroom running at all.

Also, the backup drive does not need to be a FireWire drive. Mine is a USB 2.0 drive. The backup was created using Carbon Copy Cloner and is in a subfolder on the external drive (in other words, the backup drive contains a whole bunch of other stuff as well as a folder that is a clone of the internal drive).

So, where the active Photoshop application should be "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2014/Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.app", instead, it is "/Volumes/Desktop HD/MacBackup/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2014/Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.app".

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eheffa

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Thank you very much!

Problem Fixed.

-evan

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J453

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Great. Thanks.

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James_FaAuthor

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Jeff: Installed your work-around plug-in. Seems to work just fine. Solves the problem for now. Will re-evaluate after LR-6 release. Thanks for your effort and response to the issue.

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J453

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We're working with Apple (along with others) to track down the root issue.

In the meantime, we've created a plug-in to do a manual override of the OS record/selection of the version of Photoshop to launch.

1) Download the plug-in from here: http://adobe.ly/1Ef651i
2) Unzip the folder
3) Launch Lightroom and select File>Plug-In Manager...
4) Click [Add] to install the plug-in
5) Select File>Plug-In Extras>Select Photoshop for Edit in Photoshop...
6) Click [Select] and navigate to the version of Photoshop running on your boot drive.
7) Click [OK] to dismiss the dialog
8) Relaunch Lightroom for the change to take affect

Let us know if this works around the problem for you. Thanks!

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jrsigerson

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Chris, I don't like to complain, and this is far from a high-priority issue for me, but I can see another perspective I think is equally valid.

While the underlying cause may be an OS problem, the resulting behavior is a Lightroom problem. No matter how a**-backward Apple is for creating the situation, Adobe has failed to present a functioning solution in writing the code that connects Lightroom to Photoshop.

The easiest solution (though perhaps not the most user-friendly) I can think of is to let the user define the path to Lightroom's external editor. This would also come in handy on those occasions that vital Photoshop features are broken for months at a time and one has to open files in previous versions.

That said, if the user-defined path were to completely replace the automatic updating Lightroom currently does, I can see how that could place additional burden on the majority of users.

Ultimately, the Photoshop/Lightroom team will have to pick their battles; I understand how OS anomalies can be a moving target. Still, I balk at blurring the line between reasons and excuses.

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way_phat

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Doesn't happen with any other applications I own, only Adobe.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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So you're blaming this on the OS Chris?

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