This is actually a workaround dealing with the issue of not being able to use multiple external applications to edit outside of Live. If we could do that, this wouldn't be a problem.
Part of my workflow involves "consolidating" a single clip in arrangement view so it becomes its own discrete file on my system. This allows me to easily edit that specific part in another application, which is then saved over or exported and brought back into Live for further mixing.
Most of the time, I use one external application to do this, which is fine because Live knows how to properly unload the file when I press the Edit button from the sample editor. If I want to use a different application than that, I will right-click the consolidated clip, deactivate it, then select "Show in Explorer", and from there I can easily open the clip with whatever program I'd like. Except I can't just do that, because it's still "open" in Live. What then is the point of deactivating the clip? Is this a bug?
Let us use multiple sample editors, or at least make it so clips are properly deactivated and unloaded so they can be edited elsewhere without closing out the session. Some of the things I need to do take two seconds, but that time is multiplied by a lot when all these extra steps are involved, and if I have to do that multiple times for a project it's just a giant waste of time.
I should add, this doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes it lets me edit the file, sometimes it says it's open in another program. Unpredictable behavior is frustrating.