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March 7, 2018

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  • March 7, 2018
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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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    Bob Somrak
    Bob Somrak
    Legend
    September 30, 2019
    AGREE it is still broken.   I just did 30 photos 4 times and the count of photos open in photoshop was 30 27 28 28.   Its worse than my test in my post above.
    M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    September 30, 2019
    Me too! When you are trying to edit a wedding or volume sports shoot, this can cost you hours of extra time. In the past I've restarted the computer & went back in & it corrected the problem. Not today & i will be way behind now!
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    GWSHARK101
    Inspiring
    May 30, 2019
    This is happening to me to, with some rather serious consequences with my clients.  Adobe are you listening?    I am using LR CC 2015 and PS CC 2017 on Mac OS High Sierra.  Sounds like upgrading won't fix this bug.    I'm so very very tired of this bug.  

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      funlovephotography
      Participant
      May 10, 2019
      I'm having this problem too - I JUST moved from LR5 to the CC version (8.2.1) and I'm dismayed to have upgraded to a new bug! 😞

      adellef23632546
      adellef23632546
      Participant
      March 1, 2019
      this went away for a while and now is back... command + E on my mac and 3 of 5 images show up in photoshop. so random, cant figure out why. all software up to date as of March 1, 2019
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      ben_mu_zines
      Participating Frequently
      January 17, 2019
      I've been working with it this evening - I even had the issue sending just two files to PS - only one arrived. I just think the issue is more likely to show up when you send a larger number of files.

      Anecdotally, it seems that for me, when one or more images are missing, the first image in a group is more likely to be missing, but not exclusively, and the behaviour does seem to be semi-random.

      I also tried resetting the prefs, and repeating the procedure, and even with initialised prefs, I just sent 3 tiffs to PS, and only two showed up - so the issue is not something funky in the prefs.

      Edit: I then enabled tracebacks, ran LR, and sent 4 tiffs to PS. Only two arrived. I then quit LR, but there don't appear to be able useful debug info written to the terminal in this case (I get the same messages each time, regardless of what I do.)
      Bob Somrak
      Bob Somrak
      Legend
      January 17, 2019
      This is definitely still and issue with Lr8.1 and macOS 10.13.6

      Never send more than 6 or so photos to Photoshop but even that number has failed in the past.

      I just tried 31 RAW files 4 different times and got the following results

      29
      31
      31
      29

      I didn't check to see which ones didn't import on the ones missing 2 photos and if they were the same.


      M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Legend
      January 17, 2019
      The merged topic contains some troubleshooting steps Christopher tried at the direction of Adobe employee Rikk Flohr.
      adellef23632546
      adellef23632546
      Participant
      January 17, 2019


      When in lightroom working with raw .cr2 files from my canon 5Dmkiii or 5DS R, I will tweak in develop and then select a number of files (number doesnt matter) and use shortcut command or control click to edit the selected files in photoshop. Fairly consistently, there will be one or two missing photos that did not open in photoshop. There is no logic to it and what will be missing, photos are all same type, same edits in lightroom. Say I want to edit 15 images in photoshop, only 13 or 14 will open. I then have to go back and compare file names on all 15 photos to figure out which one(s) didn't open. 

      This is all totally random but happens 95% of the time, one or more are missing. 

      Latest versions of photoshop and lightroom. iMac 5K late 2014 with current Sierra.
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      ben_mu_zines
      Participating Frequently
      January 17, 2019
      This issue has driven me nuts for *years*... It's not linked to the amount of photos either, sometimes I can select just three tiffs I wanted to edit in Photoshop, and only two turn up.
      My workflow means I typically select 1 to 8 tiffs in LR Grid View to edit in Photoshop, "Edit in PS with LR adjustments", and I reckon I get at least one not show up in PS about 20% of the time. It's a real workflow killer to have to go back and hunt for which image/s were missed, or just close down everything from PS and go do the Edit in PS operation again.

      Mac OS, multiple versions of LR, multiple versions of PS, multiple computers, for years. I don't know if the issue is with LR sending to PS, or PS missing an open command, or what - all I know is that it's a pain that's been hurting my workflow for a long long time...
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