3 Replies Latest reply: Jun 12, 2010 6:16 PM by Hopsternew RSS

    Cannot change external editor to CS5

    captain1944 Community Member

      I installed CS5 and all went well...it was picked up as the external for lightroom and all was well.

       

      However, then I uninstalled CS4 and now elements(which I also have) is set as the external editor and I cannot change it.

       

      I use windows 7, lightroom 2.5 64bit.

       

      Can anyone help?

       

      Thanks

        • 1. Re: Cannot change external editor to CS5
          Ian Lyons CommunityMVP

          Reinstall CS5 and all should be well again.

          • 2. Re: Cannot change external editor to CS5
            captain1944 Community Member

            thanks...worked fine...but...could not adobe have figured this one out beforehand? seems like something obvious all of us cs4 users would do.....

            • 3. Re: Cannot change external editor to CS5
              Hopsternew Community Member

              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.