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Can ACR 5.6 be installed for LR or Elements on OS X

Nov 19, 2009 10:14 AM

Downloaded the release candidate and it won't install.  Is there a way to manually install it for Lightroom and Photoshop Elements and Bridge CS3 on a Mac?

  • JimHess-dY5KKx
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    Nov 19, 2009 10:20 AM
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    Lightroom does not use the ACR plug-in!  But there is a release candidate of Lightroom 2.6 available for download.

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    Nov 19, 2009 11:19 AM
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    To accomplish a manual install on Windows you can copy and rename the file:

     

    Re: Can ACR 5.6 be installed for LR or Elements on OS X\extensions\AdobeCameraRaw5.0All-121109114152\Assets\1003

     

    Which appears to be about the right size (11MB) for Camera RAW.8bi (32-bit).

     

    I believe there is an analogous process for the Mac install image, but I don't know what it is.  You could probably poke around in the folders on the disk-image and find it.  You might check the size of Camera RAW 5.5 to get an idea how large it should be on your system.

     

    What you can't install by this procedure are all the camera-specific profiles for newly supported cameras in this version.  You would probably need to install the LR 2.6 RC to get those.

     

    If you do find and successfully manually install the Camera RAW plugin from the Mac installer image, you might post your results, here.

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  • John Joslin
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    Nov 19, 2009 12:07 PM
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    The OP said CS3! 

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    Nov 19, 2009 12:48 PM
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    I found the camera raw.plugin file and copied it from the dmg file to the directory where the 5.5 plugin was located.  No such luck.  Bridge doesn't work with Canon 7d raw files at that point.  Did the same thing with the camera files and they did not seem to be a problem when I copied the 5.5 plugin back into the directory (Library\Application Support\Adobe\plugins\cs3\file formats).

     

    That tis the procedure for a manual install in Bridge CS3 and Photoshop elements 6 for versions 5.5 and prior.

     

    I don't know if the install files does something to the plugin fle on the extract or if it requires Elements 8 for 5.6

     

    I did download the LR 2.6 RC and it is working

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    Nov 19, 2009 3:26 PM
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    On Windows, ACR 5.6 RC works with Elements 6 so I expect it would work with 7 as well.

     

    I would search your hard-drive for all instances of the Camera Raw.plugin and replace them with the one extracted from the DMG, after, perhaps, renaming the old copy to something with a different extension just in case you need to put it back.

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    Nov 19, 2009 3:35 PM
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    I have searched for the plugin and it only finds the one that I replaced.  This is in the directory I mentioned which is exactly where the plugin had to be placed per the manual install instructions that adobe put out with 5.5.  If there is  another place it exists, search does not show it.  Interestingly, get info on the file in the dmg (install file) with the new camera raw.plugin does not show it to be associated with elements.  Doing it manually did not work.  The icon is different as well (an all white shield as apposed to what looks like a leggo block).  Not sure what, if anything that means.

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  • JohansenEA
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    Nov 19, 2009 4:12 PM
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    ssprengel.

    It works exactly as you described.

    I renamed the 1003-file to Camera Raw.8bi and replased it with the "old 5.5"

    No restart of anything else than PSE.

    Message came up saying ACR 5.6 is RC expiring end of january.

    I have Windows7 and PSE 7.0-32.

     

    Thanks! /Erik

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  • ssprengel
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    Nov 19, 2009 4:15 PM
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    If you do a Elements / Help / About Plugin... / Camera RAW what version does it say?

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  • JohansenEA
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    Nov 19, 2009 5:26 PM
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    PSE Help says: Camera Raw 5.6.0.134

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  • ssprengel
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    Nov 19, 2009 5:42 PM
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    Graydl, what version of ACR does Elements / Help / About Plugin... / Cmaera RAW indicate?

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  • graydl
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    Nov 19, 2009 11:39 PM
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    I reinstalled the plugin the way I described and Elements reports 5.6 RC.

     

    However, Bridge cached thumbnails are very fuzzy and if you purge a folder cache it will not rebuild them (at least with Canon raw files from a 7d)  with 5.6 installed (which is one of the reasons I thought it was not working at all).  So the problem is more Bridge than Elements.

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