CR3 files will not open

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Thanks @Parkersspace for confirming that Camera Raw 14 does in fact work with Elements 2020. I have now also installed it in that version. I needed to delete all prior versions of Camera Raw that had been installed in the Plug-ins/File Formats folder even though the earlier ones had been renamed, and even after I renamed the File Formats folder.

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@Parkersspace, are you saying that ACR 14.0 opens in Elements 2020, now that you have put the plug-in in the right directory?

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Yes it is working now that I have put it in the correct directory. Thank you, I did recently install a new drive and move my items to it on my pc ).

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@Parkersspace, simply downloading the latest Camera Raw plug-in (currently 14.0) does nothing for any version of Elements. You have to follow the instructions found here.

In any event, Camera Raw 14.0 will not work with Elements 2020. However, Camera Raw 13.4 does work with Elements. So, unless you have a very new camera that was released in the past few days, you should be able to open your .cr3 files in Elements 2020, using the linked workaround.

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Yea I did do that lol, i installed it also, followed all the directions. When 14 didn't work I use downloaded 13.1 as they was no option on the link to get 13.4 from the link above "

If you still haven't been able to successfully update the Camera Raw plug-in for currently supported versions of Adobe applications, use the Camera Raw 14.0 installer below.

For older Adobe applications, substitute with the Camera Raw 10.5 installer below." So If you scroll down the page Camera Raw plug-in installer (adobe.com) it has 14 then it drops to 13.1. Maybe someone can find me a link to 13.4 I want to be able to view the files from the canon R or the Canon RP i haven't decided which i'm going to get but I am ordering in the next week and I was checking the reviews and downloading the photos at DP review in Raw so I could compare them to my DSLR photos and make sure the mirrorless would give the same quality (it looks lovely, i used Microsoft photos to view them) and certainly will give me good enough quality to conintue contributing to Shutterstock and Getty. But it's crazy that Elements won't just read them when the camera has been around longer than my 2020 version of Elements and apparently 2021 is not reading them readily either.

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OH Greg, thanks I did not copy it to the correct folder. I redid the version 14, it does work with Version 14. I reinstalled and recopied and realized I had not copied it to the correct folder the first time ( i have everything installed on E but the common folder is still in my C drive ), got it now.

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I have photoshop elements 2020, I downloaded the current camera raw, 14 and it still will not read my cr3 files. Is there anythign else I can do to have photoshop elements read these out of the camera?

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And just to update this older discussion, you can use the discussed workaround to install Camera Raw 13.3 into Elements 2020 and Elements 2021. At least, you can on Windows.

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@acoleman121, I know next-to-nothing about Macs. The only suggestion I can make is to search your computer for a file called Camera Raw.8bi. That is the name of the ACR plug-in. If you find more than one, presumably the one with the latest date will be the ACR 13.3 from your CC installation. The other one will be the Elements plug-in (if you only have one version of Elements installed). Copy and paste the newest version to the Elements folder. BUT before doing so, rename the current Elements file by adding a tilde prefix (~Camera Raw.8bi).

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