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P: Edit In Photoshop doesn't open all photos

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
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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JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Agreed, I should have said 'workaround'.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

Sunil_Bhaskaran

Inspiring

Could you please provide us the operating system you use and Lightroom Classic version?

Thanks,
Sunil

john beardsworth

Community Expert

Yes, which is why I said "a variation of this". A series of Edit With commands may be passed as a single string. With Mac the string length can be much greater so you're less likely to run into the problem.

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Stephen Newport

Known Participant

Mac here.
But he isn't talking about "exporting," I don't think, he's talking about opening in photoshop

john beardsworth

Community Expert

"30 photos selected and when I open in Ps, I find only 27"

Windows or Mac? The reason I ask is because on Windows I have seem similar problems calling PS droplets via the Export dialog's post processing step. The underlying issue was an OS limitation on the length of the command string (a combination of the file paths to the PS executable and the TIF/PSD that is being exported) that can be sent. One workaround is to reduce the length of the string by exporting the files to a shorter file path (eg to the D:/Exports/ rather than D:/Exports/ Year/Month......Project/). You may be hitting a variation of this, if you're on Windows.

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Stephen Newport

Known Participant

This is not common for me, but has on occasion happened.

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Stephen Newport

Known Participant

Johan,
Suggesting someone change their workflow to accommodate a bug isn't really a "solve," just a patch until the bug is fixed.
There are many reasons to open a lot of images at the same time, when doing product work that requires multiple passes of actions, for instance. I do this all the time.

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NumbatStudioAuthor

Participating Frequently

That's my most efficient workflow. Opening photos in smaller batches will slow me down, and no it won't fix the bug.

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NumbatStudioAuthor

Participating Frequently

That's my most efficient workflow. Opening photos in smaller batches will slow me down. Plus that's not an excuse for not fixing the bug.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Is there a reason why you open so many photos in Photoshop at the same time? That will slow down your computer, so if you don't really need them all open, then I suggest you work in smaller batches. That solves this bug too...

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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