Lightroom 2.0 will not export to Photoshop CS3

Just imported two raw files from my camera with LR2 into a new empty
catalog.Than tried to export them via "Edit in Photoshop CS3",but nothing has changed.PS starts,than an "Open as" dialog comes up.
So what works for some,just don't for others.

Carol:

When you rebuilt your database from scratch, didn't you lose all the adjustment information that LR was storing for each image? I couldn't afford to rebuild all that work. Better to wait until Adobe figures this out and provides a workaround.

By the way, I am assuming that all users of LR2 who updated their database from LR1 are having the same problem. Can this be a problem confined to a few people with some odd configuration?

You and Bo have solved it. You haven't given us the answer. Only Adobe can do that, but you seem to have pinpointed the problem.

I went to a folder in my catalog that only had a few pictures. I removed them from the catalog. I then imported them as if they were new. From then on, the transfer from LR2 to CS3 worked as it should
b except
that the two files (the original CR2 and the PSD) did not stack and
b would
not stack, even manually. LR reports that the two files are in different folders, even though they aren't. The reason, of course is as others have noticed. LR returns the image to a folder with a
b lower case drive letter,
which it then sees as a separate folder. The only workaround for that is the tiresome process of removing the spurious directory and synchronizing the correct one, thereby reinstating the edited file.

b So...
the upshot of it is as you two have noted. Images updated from an older catalog do not behave well with CS3, while those imported newly into the catalog work almost correctly. something must not have been tested with the catalog updating code.

-wick

Kevin,
What's the solution for those who are using Photoshop CS2 (9.0)?

Robert

I found out that when I re-imported files from Lightroom 1.4.1, every
Raw image in those folders would not go into CS3 from LR 2.

I had to rebuild my LR 2 database from scratch; i.e. import my Raw files
into LR 2 from memory cards and folders on my Hard drives. Then and
only then did LR2 Raw files go into CS3 and open up as CR2 files.

The bug is not, "per se", in LR2 or ACR 4.5; but, in the re-import
section of LR 2 when you first install it. And attempt to rebuild the data base
from previous versions of Lightroom.

Actually my friend hit this problem but can not log in for some reason even though he registered for this forum.

The point is this problem has to do with re-importing from a 1.4.1 version. The problem does not seem to occur if I import directly into 2.0 without reimporting from 1.4.1.

Carol

More observations and test.

After playing around with the LR2 to CS3 transfer, can I see that it's only on some older pictures that I have problems (with both cr2 and tif). All from the period 1. AUG 2006 to 30. SEP 2006. At that time using PSE 4 and ACR 3.4-3.5.

If I take a copy of one of the cr2's who don't work and place it in another folder without it's xmp file, and then do a import can I afterwards do the LR2 to CS3 transfer! But if I do the same with a tif, it doesn't work (the tif still holds the xmp info). Then tested with an exported ver. of the tif and minimized the meta data on export, then import and it can now be transferred to CS3.

So it could look like some error in the info database/xmp file, from that periods use of ACR 3.4-3.5.

br,
Bo

I'm running LR 2.0 on a Mac with a single volume and I'm experiencing this problem, so the bug is not limited to multiple-volume Macs. The file is created on the correct drive, but it is not stacked or imported into LR and CS3 often hangs after I save the file and close CS3.

Robert

Have observed the same behavior and found that going back to ACR 4.4 did work as a temp workaround to solve the problem with opening in CR3.

br,
Bo

Richard,
I do have CS3 10.01,because I've installed the update.
CS3 as a 2nd editor works,but creates unwanted copies,
and I'm still not able to open anything as a smart object from LR2.

Mario,
Reinstalling the previous ACR and than choose "Render using Lightroom"
in the warning dialog just the same as working with CS3 as a 2nd
editor.

Peter.

Yes... do not re-install CS3... re-install the previous version of camera raw