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Mar 7, 2018 10:51 AM UTC
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P: Edit In Photoshop doesn't open all photos

You have a serious bug in Lightroom that has been there for several years and I at least reported to you twice on previous versions of Lr. It has been ignored.

This happens when both Lightroom, and Photoshop are up to date (ACR up to date).

When I select a number of photos in Lr which I have cropped and edited, to further edit in Photoshop by clicking CMD E (Mac), on occasions, (it does not happen all the time) some photos do not open in Photoshop. For example, I usually have about 30 photos selected and when I open in Ps, I find only 27. I have to go back to Lightroom, find those that were missed and open those again.

This is NOT user error, as I am 100% certain that I am SELECTING ALL before I hit CMD E.

The way to overcome this is to have Photoshop (ACR) a version behind Lightroom so that when I try to open the photos from Lightroom, it will ask me whether I want to render in Lightroom instead, and that way all photos get exported to Photoshop.

Please do not keep on ignoring this bug forever.

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    Sean H [Seattle branch]
    Sean H [Seattle branch]
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    Apr 22, 2021 12:29 AM UTC

    Just experienced it again a few days ago. 

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    GWSHARK101
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    Apr 22, 2021 12:28 AM UTC

    Ok this thread is now over 3 years old and this bug still exists.  It's followed me through new versions of lightroom, photoshop, Mac OS, and new computers.  iMac 2019 Mohave,  Latest Photoshop 2021 and Lightroom Classic.  

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 10, 2020 1:11 PM UTC
    I have this problem with Lightroom & Photoshop CC. However, if I wait 2 minutes, Photoshop starts and works!
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    Apr 15, 2020 12:10 AM UTC
    Imagine there was a bug that you send your monthly subscription to Adobe and not all of it showed in Adobe's bank account.

    That'll get fixed hey?
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    ben_mu_zines
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    Apr 14, 2020 11:04 PM UTC
    Can you imagine the outcry if the bug was instead: I select a few files in the Finder, and open them into Photoshop, and about 1/3rd of the time, one or more random files of the selection just doesn't get opened..?

    It would likely get fixed shortly in a point release upgrade.

    And yet, here we are, 5+ years on, and I *still* have to deal with this Every. Damn. Day. With no sign of anything, ever likely to happen to fix it.

    It's frustrating, and I'm sure whichever Adobe guy acknowledged the issue by replicating it could probably sit down with a dev for ten minutes one afternoon, show them the issue, and at least have a line on fixing it before the end of the day...

    I guess I'll check back on this next year, see how we're doing.
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    AlinaReynbakh
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    Apr 14, 2020 10:50 PM UTC
    Exactly! That has been literally YEARS and Adobe still didn't fix that issue. So frustrating 😞
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    Bob Somrak
    Bob Somrak
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    Apr 14, 2020 7:22 PM UTC
    This is one of the more irritating LONG TERM bugs in Lightroom.  Even time you open more than a few images you have to count them to make sure they were all imported into Photoshop.  
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    Sean H [Seattle branch]
    Sean H [Seattle branch]
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    Apr 14, 2020 7:12 PM UTC


    I've been seeing this alot and remember seeing it before. I am in GRID in LR and select 20 raw files. I choose CMD+E to send them to Photoshop. Photoshop opens and the files start loading into the workspace. I go to do a Photomerge and I see the list of images in the workspace are incomplete. It's random. I checked the bottom of the list to see if they were sorted to the end. No, it's all sorted A->Z. This example was missing 4 selected images. 
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    GWSHARK101
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    Feb 29, 2020 12:49 AM UTC
    YES!   Sangean, Thank you.   I think there are a LOT of us who want to know when Adobe is going to fix this bug.   How do we escalate it to highest priorty Rikk?
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    GWSHARK101
    Inspiring
    Feb 29, 2020 12:47 AM UTC
    Hi Rikk,  It's been 5 months so thought I'd check in and see where Adobe is with this bug?   I have yet another irritated client who didn't get an image today because I didn't notice that 1 of 13 images didn't load in Photoshop.   This major bug has been going on for over 2 year now.  
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