Edit in Photoshop Problem

I wanted to post this in case other people were having the same problem.
Was having a problem where I would try to "Edit in Photoshop" a NEF file. Photoshop would launch, but no file would open. It had worked fine in the past. Had not changed anything as far as what versions of Lightroom and Photoshop I was using, so was stumped as to why it stopped working.
I did a pretty extensive search in the forums. Seemed that other people were have similar problems. Did pretty much all the suggestions that people had posted to resolve the problem, but it still did not work for me.
I apply a copyright metadata preset when I import my NEF files. I have two phone numbers in the "Phone Field". Recently I changed phone numbers and went in to the preset to change it to the new phone numbers. I had tried to put the phone numbers on two lines instead of just one. When I did this, it put some characters that must have caused the problem with the "Edit in Photoshop" function.
After I changed the two phone numbers to be on one line, "Edit in Photoshop" works as expected.
Anyway, thought I would pass that on as another reason why "Edit in Photoshop" may not be working as expected.
BC

  With a raw file it’s conventional to send a tiff or PSD with Lightroom develop settings into photoshop.
You normally make the round trip from Lightroom.
1) Ctrl+E in the Library to export with develop settings
2) Edit in Photoshop; then Ctrl+S to overwrite Lightroom export copy
3) Ctrl+W to close in Photoshop and update Lightroom thumbnail.
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