What are you doing? There is nothing about copying a file from inside a zip to a location on your hard-drive that involves double-clicking on a Camera Raw.8bi file, and there is nothing in Noel’s linked instructions that says to double-click on the AdobePatchInstaller.exe, especially when it is inside the zip-file, still, which is what the error message is telling you not to do. If you want to run the Adobe Patch Installer you need to extract all the files from that update zip into a folder of your choosing and then run the patch installer exe.
If you still want to try Noel’s process for manually placing the new ACR from within the updater zip to its proper location on your hard drive, here is my versions of the instructions, with the double-clicks explicitly stated:
Double-click on the AdobeCameraRaw-6.7-mul-AdobeUpdate.zip to open it in Windows Explorer.
Double-click on the payloads folder inside the zip to show its contents in Windows Explorer.
Double-click on the first folder you see under payloads, the one without x64 and without Profile in the name, this is for the 32-bit version of Camera RAW.8bi
Within that folder you’ll see an Assets2_1.zip.
Right-click on Assets2_1.zip and choose Copy.
Go to your Desktop and create a new folder, then open that folder and paste the Assets2_1.zip into that folder.
From within that new folder, double-click on Assets2_1.zip to open it in Windows Explorer.
Within that zip file, find the 1003 file that is a little over 20MB in size, much larger than anything else.
Right-click on it and choose Copy.
Open a new Windows Explorer window and navigate to the folder in Noel’s instructions:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS5\File Formats\Camera Raw.8bi
Right-click in that folder and choose Paste.
You should now see a 1003 file in that folder.
If you already have a Camera Raw.8bi file, rename it changing the .8bi to .bak.
Rename the 1003 file to Camera Raw.8bi.
Now the 32-bit version of Camera Raw.8bi has been updated to 6.7.
Return to your original ZIP file and now click down into the folder under payloads that has an x64 in the name.
Follow the same steps for unzipping the Assets2_1.zip and such, just copy the 1002 file into 64-bit version of Camera Raw.8bi, which Noel says is:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS5\File Formats\Camera Raw.8bi
That should be it.
It would be preferable to get the Adobe Patch Installer to run and complete successfully because it will also install the lens and camera profiles for your camera, but without those you’ll still have the basic raw conversion occurring and the Adobe Standard profile.
Since you purchased your PS-CS5 from eBay, the packaging may be original from Adobe and never opened—you can download the software as a trial for free and it will be basically the same thing as on the DVD, but the serial number is really the only important thing, and if Adobe has never certified that serial number as being shipped or solder or Adobe finds out the package was stolen or any number of other things that could have happened that aren’t a normal sale from Adobe to the customer, then Adobe could eventually blacklist the serial number and PS will eventually just stop working with a message that it is not a legit.
Oh, brother! No one, absolutely no one should be running that version of Photoshop. You should be in either version 12.0.4 or 12.1.
