danorman2

Previously when I sent a photo from Lightroom to Elements , it opened right away. Now it does not open right away, but sits a few minutes and then informs me that Photoshop cannot launch. When I click on that message(the cannot launch) it launches with the photo. Elements 2020,Lightroom 6 windows 10? Is there a fix for this malady?

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Is the file from a brand new camera? Is it a raw file? Has ANYTHING changed at all? Is that a brand new fresh install of Elements 2020?

If no to all of these, open a chat session with Adobe. They are very good at helping people with their chat feature.. Or call them...

danorman2

Thank you

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I'm guessing PSE 2020 is newly installed. Did you look at your External Editor definitions within LR and confirm / recreate the technical specifications of how an image file is sent from LR to PSE?

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

I don't have Elements, but CS5. On rare occasions I get a similar message. I resolve it by having PS already open. I assumed it had something to do with computer memory issues.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

It is probably a "time out" warning you're getting.

For various reasons, possibly unrelated to LR or Elements, your computer is running slower and taking longer to open Elements. That can happen for any number of reasons... anything that slows the computer such as other programs you've got running, something running in the background such as a download or an anti-virus scan, a too-full hard drive, a lot of stuff in the trash, a fragmented drive, etc. Literally anything using the computer's resources can cause it to run slower.

When you tell LR to "Open in Elements", the process of starting Elements and loading the image is taking too long (in LR's "judgment")... hence the error message.

AzPicLady is right...

The easiest solution is to start Elements first, before sending images to it. Then you can use the same procedure in LR, to pass off images for further work in Elements. This will probably solve the problem. (I sometimes have the same thing happen with LR and Photoshop.... usually because I have several other programs running.)

Another thing you can do is look at what else is running on your computer... you may be able to free up some resources to help Elements open and run faster.

I don't use Windows 10 (yet)... But if it's like previous versions of Windows, run the Task Manager and look at all the things the systems is doing and how much RAM and processor is being used. The list of active processes is huge at times. I just peeked at what's running on my computer right now and there are 138 processes, 100% processor usage and 80+% of RAM in use. That's without either LR or PS running! All that stuff "going on" uses system resources and will slow down something intensive like Elements or Photoshop. (Note: I've also got an applet installed that shows system load as a percentage right on the task bar, along with the temperature of the processor.)

Be careful, though. A lot of the processes you'll see running in Task Manager are necessary and can't be shut down.

Still, you might find some large applications or processes that can be stopped to improve performance.

Alafoto Loc: Montgomery, AL

I'm confused. Is it 'processes' or 'services' that you have 138 of running in the background? My admittedly older computer running windows 7 pro shows no 'processes', but a whole gang of 'services' running. The only 'applications' noted as running are the two browser windows I have open and a file folder that has data that I was working on earlier and need to get back to. Not trying to be a smart alec, I'm just a computer illiterate and have no idea how a computer does all the cool things that it does.