Edit original

when control-clicking on a picture in In-Design to edit original, my .psd file opens in Photoshop, I make my edits but when I click "save" it tells me it can't save because the file is already in use or was left open. This doesn't happen all the time but happens enough to prompt me to investigate. Any ideas or suggestions out there?

This sounds like an old Photoshop problem especially on Windows.
Search your harddrive for psicon.dll and rename it psicon.dll.old. Reboot.
Bob

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