HDR in Photoshop

When I select Edit in HDR in Lightroom it does not open the images in Photoshop. Has anyone had this problem and, if so, how did you solve it please?

Hi John
I am using Photoshop CC 2014, Lightroom 5.5 and Windows 8
Thank you

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On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:47:44 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this is a LR or CS3 question, but anyway:
> I'm trying to make my way through Scott Kelby's LR2 guide, but ran into the following when I reached the chapter referred to in my subject line: "Merge to HDR.jsx could not be found". I'm running the latest software versions, and used SKs description as follows:
> - shot bracketed photos
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>
> Then, instead of displaying my photos, I got the message above. Could someone please tell me what I may have done wrong?
>
> thanks in advance,
> ole k
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