Help needed exporting from Lightroom 4 to Photoshop CS6

I'm running LR 4.4 and Photoshop CS6 on an iMAC and I'm having issues with the edit in photoshop option.  Used to be able to right click and image, go to Edit In and choose Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop would open and the image would open.  I could then make my changes and save them and those changes would copy back over to Lightroom.  Now when I choose Edit In>Photoshop, Photoshop opens but the image never opens.  It would prompt saying Open Anyway or Render using Lightroom.  If I clicked Open Anyway, the image would NOT open in Photoshop.  If I clicked Render using Lightroom, the image WOULD open in Photoshop.  Well now I've upgraded my software and it's no longer prompting me to Render using Lightroom.  Can someone help either fix the root probelm or tell me how to get my raw files to Render using Lightroom?

Same problem here on the PC side.

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