Lightroom pulls up photoshop from backup drive rather than boot drive

I am using the latest versions of Lightroom and Photoshop for Mac.
I back up each night using super duper.  In Lightroom, when I choose to Edit in Photoshop CC 2014, Lightroom loads Photoshop from my backup drive.  The only workaround I have found is to dismount my backup drive.  Is there a place I can go in either lightroom or photoshop to specify from which drive Photoshop should start when Editing from Lightroom.  If I start photoshop first, then Lightroom "finds" the correct Photoshop, but I'd like to actually solve this rather than using a workaround.  BTW, I used Adobe's instructions for uninstalling Lightroom and then re-installed, but that did not solve the problem.

ANSWER BELOW:
I discovered a work around - super duper has a way to create custom scripts which will NOT back up items you specify.  I went to the backup drive of my main drive and deleted both photoshop CC and lightroom cc.  After running super duper using the custom script (which they explain thoroughly in the latest super duper manual) and NOT backing up either Photoshop or Lightroom (in Applications) things are back to normal.  If I need to reinstall either photoshop or lightroom, I can easily do that from the web.

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