2025 Elements Editor Will not Launch

[brets14660800]

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

[brets14660800]

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

[Greg_S. · Accepted solution]

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?
  

[brets14660800]

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.

[PaulDG]

 double-clicking on the PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe file in the following folder:   C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2025 works.  how do I fix the launcher to point to this file?

[Greg_S.]

@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.