Lightroom 5.5 won't export to any external editors (using a Mac).

I have updated and reinstalled both photoshop and lightroom to the latest version and reinstalled but whenever I click edit in...nothing happens, i have photoshop CC, CS6 and Nik software and clicking any of those has no effect.
Any suggestions? using a late model 2012 Mac with 24 Mb of Ram and the latest OS too....help!!!!lightroom

Hi all, I had the same problem today after my first try at Lightroom, despite having for a few months when I subscribed to Photoshop CC with the promotion. I am usually an Aperture user on the Mac and it hadn't given me any problem whatsoever. But Aperture 3.5 is showing its age and I really want to try using LR for my professional work and get better results from my newer cameras.
When I updated both Photoshop CC and LR earlier this month with their latest updates. I didn't know when or how I had two copies of Photoshop, Photoshop CC and Photoshop CC 2014. So I took the liberty by uninstalling the 'older' Photoshop CC and keep the newer Photoshop CC 2014. Then the problem started. I couldn't edit any photos from LR to Photoshop. PS would open but then did nothing. I tried fixing permissions without any help. Then I also uninstalled the 'newer' 2014 version and rebooted. Then I signed in to CC and had Photoshop installed again.
Then magic happened. It worked. Mind you, when I opened Photoshop the first time (before I open LR), it did ask me "do you want to import presets from previous versions?" I clicked no because I wanted a fresh copy. But I kept the plugins in the same folder (when you uninstall PS, it usually retains the folder for PS and Plugins because its third party software). So the PS was able to pick up the plugins that I previously installed and worked perfectly again.
I am not sure if it's a solution to all but at least it worked for me.
Cheers
BTW, LR is really slow in operation when compares to Aperture... just not as slick but the end result is way better than Aperture I must admit.
Jimmy
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