LR1.2 -won't edit in Photshop CS3

Hi all,
Anybody encounter this: on telling LR to edit in PS3, the following message appears:
Lightroom was unable to prepare the selected file (name) for editing, It will not be opened.
This despite the fact that in preferences/external editing/additional external editor I have Photoshop CS3.exe shown as the chosen application.
Colour space is Adobe RGB 1998, bit depth 8 bits, compression, none.
The same thing happens if I select Edit in Creative_E application. (Incidentally, what is that?)
This problem has occurred only since I installed LR 1.2. Now I can't use Lightroom in conjunction with CS3. The solution has to be simple -I'd be grateful to anybody who has it.

Update: found the solution. The external drive I was writing to didn't have enough space to do the edit. It's something to be aware of - the drive itself had a good few gigs left, so if this happens to you, check the available space first before doing anything else. In my case, moving a few gigs elsewhere solved the problem. Pity LR didn't tell me the disk was too full - it would have saved me a full Sunday afternoon uninstalling and reinstalling CS3 apart from trying to re-establish the connection in Windows Registry.

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