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Hi [USER=133437]@GracieAllen[/USER]

Glad that you have the problem resolved.   I have seen similar issues in other places in Photoshop and Lightroom where  I makes one type of choice in such a dialog and ask for it to never be shown again and much later wonder why I am getting a certain action when the dialog no longer shows up.   It can really cause a loss of time trying to figure out what happened and when I figure out that it was doing exactly as I had previously requested, it feels as if I kicked myself in the rear.  The good news was I could reset the dialogs and change it to my new preference of the default action.

The bad news is that it is not permanent in all cases.  If you reset Preferences in Photoshop the option dialogs will all come back.  

BTW - technically speaking, the Layer Mask is deleted in either case.   It is just Delete the Layer Mask or Apply the Layer Mask (Convert to the Transparency Layer along with the image pixels) and then Delete the Layer Mask.   I personally prefer that I am supplied the option of which to choose each time or set the default action and bypass the dialog.   It gives me the flexibility and control. Just my perspective of course.

John Wheeler