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1. Re: Cannot change external editor to CS5
Ian Lyons Jun 12, 2010 1:24 PM (in response to captain1944)Reinstall CS5 and all should be well again.
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2. Re: Cannot change external editor to CS5
captain1944 Jun 12, 2010 2:19 PM (in response to Ian Lyons)thanks...worked fine...but...could not adobe have figured this one out beforehand? seems like something obvious all of us cs4 users would do.....
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3. Re: Cannot change external editor to CS5
Hopsternew Jun 12, 2010 6:16 PM (in response to captain1944)I had a similar and some related complications.
I have just just re-installed CS5 again following Ian's advice and the Lightroom external editor preference is now correct again.
As it's possibly of interest to others I would like to mention some possible complications as they affected me:
I had CS4 64 bit (part of Design Standard) on W7 64 bit and also LR2.7 64 bit
I purchased CS5 Design Std and was provided with a serial number on proof of eligibility for the version purchased.
After checking that CS5 worked for me, I deactivated CS4 and uninstalled.
1. All of my image related file associations were removed and required manual resetting in Windows separately.
2. Acrobat Pro no longer worked (serial number/activation) although it had been working with the CS4 suite and CS3 before that. I did run the install again with the new disc that comes with CS5 but I assume that it made no changes and was not actually re-installed. After 3 support instances I was given a new serial number and it now worked again.
3. LR2.7 no longer found PS as the default external editor for PSDs although my second manual selection to set Ps .exe as the external editor for TIFF files did still work.
4. I had problems getting ACR and LR edits of DNG files to synchronise.
Some of the complications may be related to the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Ps. Bridge is still 32 bit as far as I know. LR installs only one version of itself, in my case 64 bit.
I suggest ensuring that you install both 32 and 64 bit versions of Ps and then systematically go through updates and preferences to both as well as LR too.



