Edit in Photoshop opens wrong location

This is strange. I have been a user of Lightroom and Photoshop since their first versions. I am running an early 2011 MacBook Pro with the latest versions of everything. I subscribe to Creative Cloud.
Until recently, choosing to edit a file in Photoshop via Lightroom's "edit in" resulted in the file opening my Photoshop application on my boot drive. Now, it defaults to opening the file for editing using the Photoshop application on my backup drive, which is a 2 1/2" drive stuck in a USB "toaster" and much slower. I am using Carbon Copy Cloner to perform hourly backups. This also occurs if I open a file through Bridge. When edited, the edited file gets saved in the correct location on my boot drive. I have tried everything that I know to change this. It has to be an "Adobe" thing, because if I simply open the file directly from the finder, it is opened by the Photoshop on my boot drive. Does anyone have a solution to this?
Thanks in advance . . . . .

This page might have information that will help – look for the Mac-specific section:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/edit-photoshop-command-missing-photoshop.html
In your situation you might want to temporarily remove your external drive just before deleting your plist file, and get things working with the internal-drive-PS, before hooking up the external drive, again.

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