Lightroom edit in Photoshop Opens In Beta not Photoshop

[metropolics]

Hello, I have two copies of Photoshop in my PC The current Beta and Photoshop CC 2024 latest version. Every time I use the "Edit In Photoshop" Lightroom command opens my edit in the beta version, not Photoshop CC 2024 as I wanted to. In Preferences, external editing is set to Photoshop 2024. Any thoughts this has been driving me nuts. 

Thank You

Charles  

[AxelMatt]

I have had the same problems. I could solve it by doing the following steps:

• If you haven't already done so, install the lastest version of Lightroom 12.5
• Uninstalling both Photoshop versions by using the Adobe Creative Cloud Application. When asked, keep preferences! 
• Reinstall Photoshop Beta first.
• Reinstall Photoshop 2023

If this doesn't help try the reinstallation with removing the preferences also.

[CardoCardo]

I tried exactly that but it still defalauts to Beta not 2024.

[AxelMatt]

What do you have exactly done?

[CardoCardo]

I updated PS within my subscription to 2024 at the end of October. I had already downloaded Beta in the summer to play with the new features being developed but still want the non-Beta version as the default edit in option from LR. No problem with that until the update to 2024. Itvtokk me to PS 2023 as set in LR preferences. After the update then LR kept opening Beta from the "edit in". Tried uninstalling both Beta and 2024, reinstalled Beta then 2024  in that order And ckeck that Beta was not seet in LR preferences. But edit in still it opens Beta not 2024.

Running under Win 11.

[AxelMatt]

Do you have install an Update of the Beta-Version after you have installed 2024? The last installed version will take file associations.

In the Preferences of the recent versions of Lightroom you can change which Photoshop version be used on "Edit in Photoshop..."

In my case I have installed Photoshop 2024 and the older version 2023.

If this doesn't help I would suggest a complete and clean reinstallation. Make sure that you're logged in as a Administrator or an user with Admin rights.

Please follow the steps below:

• backup all personal data, like templates, presets, catalog(s) etc.
• uninstall everything CC including preferences,  https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/uninstall-remove-app.html
• then uninstall the CC Desktop App,  https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/uninstall-creative-cloud-desktop-app.html
• clean your computer of CC files per http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html
• restart your computer (don't skip this)
• reinstall the CC Desktop App,  https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/desktop-app.html
• use the Desktop App to install your CC programs/trials
• restore your personal data.

if you're unable to install the CC Desktop App at this stage, use an administrator account (solution 4 here,  https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/creative-cloud-missing-damaged.html)

[hanomann]

Isn't photoshop 24 the beta-version?

[AxelMatt]

Isn't photoshop 24 the beta-version?

By @hanomann

No. The Beta version is Photoshop 25.x (actual 25.1)

The "normal" version is Photoshop 24.7.

[metropolics]

You might be right. In my Lightroom there is only one Photoshop selection its 2024 so when I installed the beta it may have overwritten my production version of Photoshop.  

[D Fosse]

The last installed version will take file associations. This is just how windows works by default. It doesn't matter what the version number is; just the sequence of installing them.

You can also change file associations in Windows, but the safest and simplest is to just reinstall.

[shmuglak]

Hello! I will try the solution with removing and reinstalling versions in the right order a moment, but I have another question: is there is a way to keep both versions in "Edit in..." menu, so I would be able to select wiich version I would like to open?

[davida99419370]

In Lrc's Edit-> Preferences _External Editing you can click "Choose" under Additional External editor and navigate to the other version (Regular or beta)

[mstein274]

I have a mac and it not only wants to open in Beta but says that the Beta version is already running when it is definitly not running.

[russt94782521]

The only way I've found is a work around which is to open  Photoshop (not Beta) first, minimize it, then use Lightroom Classsic as usual.  This is NOT ideal, but works for me..