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Maxie2011
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March 5, 2011
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Bridge's Parent Application is Not Active, Bridge Requires That a Qualifying Product Has Been Launch

  • March 5, 2011
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Has anyone figured out how to fix this?  Tried  fixes & I still can not open RAW files from Bridge or Photoshop CS5.  I upgraded the Camera RAW plug-in and downloaded all fixes  for Photoshop CS5 ( done automatically through Adobe updater) so program is up to date.  I can open RAW files from mini bridge if I right click the photo BUT if I take the photo back to Bridge I can not open it there. ( I could do this before the upgrades so this is not different ). I have windows 7 professional 32 bit. I tried DNG files & .cr2 files.

In Photoshop CS4 I had the same problem ( almost the same error message...bridge requires a qualify product to be launched at least once... Camera RAW) and it was never fixed but I didn't understand the advantages of working in camera RAW. So it may be the same glich if I had it in CS4 & CS5. Thanks in advance for your help.

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    moxie_mckenzie
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    May 24, 2011

    i ran into the same issue just this last week....and i finally found (at least in my case) the SOLUTION...i'd D/Led the trial version of adobe illustrator...something in that download, or the preference choices that followed afterward, KICKED my "Parent Application," which had always been photoshop CS4, to the curb!  realizing, as i've had to in the past,  that i should "look back to what you'd done just prior to the change (with its resulting ERROR message) and UNDO it."  ergo:  i dumped the trial version of illustrator, and VOILA!  i can now, once again, open jpgs by opting for "open in camera raw"  directly from the BRIDGE again...hope this helps!  too bad newly added ADOBE programs don't ask you to actually ESTABLISH which of their programs you would LIKE to designate as the PARENT APPLICATION when you're loading  said new software!

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    Anonymous
    March 5, 2011

    A little lost in you explaination.  The first part "Bridge's Parent Application is not Active -  - - - - - " is seen occasionally when bridge will not launch.  It then has to be opened through its parent application Photoshop, then it will work normally.

    When you open RAW files in mini-bridge does it load ACR editor?

    Can you open RAW files into the editor from Photoshop?  Use Open As and use the open as drop down box to select camera raw.

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    Maxie2011Author
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    March 5, 2011

    Thanks for your reply. Bridge works fine except for the Camera Raw function.  I get the above error message when I try to open a photo in Camera RAW.  I can open Camera Raw from Mini Bridge, if I save the image & go back to bridge, the same image will not open from Bridge in Camera RAW.  I get that error message if I try to open the Camera RAW preferances also. There is another post on here regarding the issue dating back to Sept 2010: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/725467?tstart=0

    But no real concrete answer to the issue. It just stopped.

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    Anonymous
    March 6, 2011

    Most of the problems with camera raw are either the plug in is in the wrong folder, or there is more than one file in the folder.

    ACR should be in program files>COMMON FILES>adobe>plug ins> cs5>file formats

    There should be only one file there.

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