P: Support cataloging PSB files

I've never used this particular forum before so I hope I am replying in the right place.  I'm an advanced amateur, yet I have enough image files that are important enough to me that I feel I need a database management system to support storage and post processing.  Although I have used Photoshop for decades and certainly intend to keep using it, I added Lightroom about 5 years ago primarily in order to organize my files.  Of course I also perform some initial image processing steps in LR, but I could easily use Bridge or Capture One for all that.  Adobe has been aware for over 6 years of a looming crisis in file size limits, but has chosen to do nothing so far about it.  That's at least two or three cycles of Moore's Law; it can't be a surprise to Adobe.
My basic problem is that I make complex composites with many layers, all in Photoshop.  This kind of post-processing represents considerable value added over the original raw files. I may work on a composite for several months before I stop changing it.  If I have to keep an elaborate informal system of flattened sidecar files in LR catalogues as surrogates for the Photoshop files, I am likely to stop using LR for database management.  Perhaps this is what Adobe wants, since they have now renamed LR to LR Classic and made the new LR dependent on Cloud storage.  For those of us who sometimes work in hotel rooms, this precludes using the new LR for database management.

I will try to use TIFF when I safely can to store Photoshop files, but if Adobe doesn't fix this problem in the next two years, I will change my workflow to stop using LR. I know one customer doesn't matter, but it looks like many customers have similar problems.

I just got through to Adobe chat by pretending I had an account problem, and after being referred 3 times, I got sent a link that sent me back to these forums where Adobe is supposed to listen to support queries. Catch 22.

We are a high-end image production facility, and have dealt in large files as long as I can remember, with CGI, Motion and Retouching. We have dealt with professional photographers and advertising agencies for over 22 years. Lightroom is a great product for cataloging and handling files (as well as treating them), and we were hoping to use it widely to search our huge image database, but it cant read some of its own Adobe formats? We find this absurd! Even if it cant EDIT a 14gig PSB file, at least it should be able to RECOGNISE and thumbnail it! How hard is it Adobe? People have been asking here for 6 YEARS, and you have been ignoring them for 6 years. At least be polite and answer people.

It's officially 2018. Time to update how large the files can be in LR and Raw Converter. I have 128GB ram and a capable system. Why does LR insist I downsize my files? Why won't it recognize PSB yet? Why is the PSD capped? Why does the pano routine die if it can't fit an image. So many questions. I'm a pano guy. Please expand the limits. PLEASE make PS Camera Raw behave the same as LR. Tired of the same tools having different interactions... IE, scrollwheel in PS doesn't adjust brush size. scrollwheel in LR does adjust the brush size. Get the teams together, settle it. 

This should be a non-issue, for a program that claims it does digital asset management, and doesn't support its own file format is silly!

+1 for me too. Many of my photos done using digital blending of multiple images and the file can get easily get over 4GB. Also I am getting may feet wet with Gigaramas and those also get pretty big in size. I cannot believe this has not been addressed yet.

All Adobe cares is how to charge for the software instead of adding useful features that photographers want. It like Adobe does not want photographers use their product.

"I don't want adobe to believe it is a solution"

Stephen, it is clear that Adobe doesn't respond to hectoring. If they did, the cacophony on these pages would cause them to do anything to make us quiet.

My advice is to thank Adobe for building in an extension platform to Lightroom, support the plug-in programmers, and get on with whatever you use Lightroom for. And pray that Adobe doesn't take away functionality while we are still editing and storing photos on our personal computers. (Which for me will probably be decades).

"I don't want adobe to believe it is a solution."

I agree entirely -- a plugin can't provide nearly the convenience and ease of use as a built-in solution.  Unfortunately, this request is 6 years old, and moving forward, Adobe has indicated they'll be focusing their LR Classic efforts on performance and editing tools (not Library).  

John, 
While your plugin is definitely appreciated, I don't want adobe to believe it is a solution. It should not be an issue to edit a large file in Lightroom, not just catalog it, especially if it is an adobe born file!

YES!!! Just so we know it there. I don't mind having to open in photoshop, but if I could just see it . . . and Ideally export to different file types. Please adobe.