Problem with Plug-ins

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March 7, 2020
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I am running Windows 10 with Photoshop Elements 15 and 18 (2020) installed.

I am trying to install the free version of the Nik collection into PSE 2020 but only 3 parts, out of 7, have loaded Analog Efect Pro 2, Color Efect Pro 4 and Viveza 2. On opening PSE I get the message one or more plug-ins are currently not available on your system. For details see Help – System Info.

Define 2, Selective 2, Sharpener Pro 2, Silver Efex Pro 2 did not load!!

There is a .8bf file inside each of the individual folders for each of the problem plug-ins?

I uninstalled Nik Collection and then reinstalled but sadly things have not changed.

Any help in resolving this issue would be much appreciated.

All works fine in ver 15.

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Greg_S.

Community Expert

IIRC, I used the installer and all plug-ins are available for me. In looking at my 2020 plug-ins folder, there are only shortcut links back to the Google folder:

However, having said that, I recently wanted to reinstall some other plug-ins and ran into problems. I ended up using the Preferences dialog to add a folder location for plug-ins.

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Stan the manAuthor

Participant

Dear Greig_S,

Thank you for taking the time to assist me.

I followed your suggestion of going to Preferences and loading Plug-ins from there but unfortunately with no success.

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Stan the manAuthor

Participant

Dear Greig_S

Just an Update and a thank you…

I had already tried copying the files from my PSE 15 plugins to PSE 2020 plugins but that didn’t seem to work or I didn’t do it right as I still got the message that one or more plugins was not currently available.

Nothing I tried seemed to be working for me and I was getting a bit confused so decided to start from the beginning again and deleted the NIK files from my PSE 2020 plugins.

I noticed that there was a Google Folder in my Program Files inside of which was a NIK collection folder so I copied and pasted it into my PSE 2020 plugins and then opened PSE to see if that worked. I still got the message I got originally to the effect that one or more plugins was not currently available etc…

So I followed your instructions again this time going to Edit – Preferences – Plugins – and checked the Additional Plug-Ins Folder and pointed to C:\Program Files\Google\NIK Collection and that has worked.

Many thanks again for your help in this matter.