Lightroom 6 Edit in Photoshop cs6 not working

Macmanfin wrote:

Thanks for the replies. The situation at the moment is that I was able to install the ACR 9.1.1 version in Photoshop and with that I can now open Canon 5D III raw images. But the 5D IV images won't open. Finder Preview also opens the latest raw images, but Photoshop does not recognize them, but asks to update to the latest ACR version.

If it is really the case that that RAW code is written inside Photoshop and is not in a separate file, then it may be impossible to restore it to operation. Assuming that Adobe has updated the CS6 program that I still have available for download from my Adobe account to a version that no longer supports the 5D IV camera.

The Raw code is baked into Lightroom and Lightroom Classic. It is not baked into Photoshop. Photoshop uses Adobe Camera Raw – so to a certain extent, you can upgrade Adobe Camera Raw to add new camera support, without upgrading Photoshop.

I'm guessing that you were using ACR 7.0 – the version that originally came with Photoshop CS6. It wouldn't have had EOS 5D Mark III support. That support requires ACR 7.1 or later. When you downloaded ACR 9.1.1, you would have had "or later."

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

If that older CS6 version was really such that it still accepted 5D IV raw images from the latest ACR 9.1.1. version. But even then it seems strange that the current 9.1.1. version does not include that support.

Support for the EOS 5D Mark IV did not appear until ACR 9.7.

Adobe Camera Raw is code – not a settings file. If you were restoring Photoshop from a specific Time Machine date, you might look to see what Time Machine has as a snapshot of Adobe Camera Raw from that date.

According to those sources, CS6's Camera Raw didn't get any sort of update in 2022.

9.1.1 was the last update for CS6, and it came out in 2015. All of the updates of ACR since then have been for the benefit of people who use ACR as a plug-in to newer "subscription" versions of Photoshop, or who use it by itself.

This is a known issue for such an old version of the Adobe suite. The problem is Adobe shut down the activation servers, and the online update servers for CS6 and older. You get the error messages because the updates can't be located.

Adobe also took down all links for the updates on their site. You can no longer download any patches. And even if you could, they wouldn't work. I sold my CS6 Master Collection on eBay about a year ago. While I had it, I had also saved all of the last updates on an external drive so I could apply them myself when necessary.

However, even those standalone updaters wouldn't work anymore after Adobe removed the links and took down the servers. They must still try to talk to Adobe's servers for some unknown reason.

The person who bought the suite on eBay knew going in that the activating the perpetual license was going to be a bit of a chore. After you try about 5 times to do an activation through the app (which it can't do), it finally sends you over to a different web page to do a manual activation.

But, working updaters were only available to the buyer by contacting Adobe. I can't remember if he said they gave him links to full installers that already had all of the last patches included, or if they were newer patch files that didn't try to talk to Adobe's servers so they'd work, as a standalone patch file should. Either way, he finally got all of the apps updated to their last versions.

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-compatible-applications.html indicates that Photoshop CS6 can use anything between ACR 7.0 and ACR 9.1.1. There's a footnote saying that ACR will no longer be updated for Photoshop CS6 after version 9.1.1.

The current (October 2023) release of ACR is version 16.0. Looks as if 9.1.1 came out at the end of July 2015.

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/6136681022/adobe-announces-final-camera-raw-update-for-cs6-owners

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/8368420800/adobe-camera-raw-9-1-1-now-available

Macmanfin wrote:

Thank you. What surprises me the most about this whole installation job is that I've had that Canon 5D IV camera for three years and this software combination of mine has worked flawlessly the whole time. That is, I have been able to open all RAW files in Lightroom (including 5D IV) camera files. So my understanding is that this should be brought back to action. I just don't remember which versions of Photoshop I had installed.

I tried looking for information about DNG convertter, but apparently it doesn't work the same way as ARC, ie it can't open a single image from Lightroom to Photoshop? If I have understood correctly. If I'm right, how have these current PS6 and LR6 worked together so far and all raw files have opened directly from Lightroom to Photoshop?

My understanding is that Adobe "bakes" copies of their Raw conversion code into Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Adobe Camera Raw, and the DNG Converter. The only way to add new camera support directly to any of those applications is to upgrade to a new version of the application.

Adobe Photoshop makes use of Adobe Camera Raw. A given version of Photoshop can usually work with several versions of Adobe Camera Raw before you have to upgrade Photoshop itself. (There comes a time when a given version of Photoshop can't work with the latest versions of ACR.)

If it is really the case that that RAW code is written inside Photoshop and is not in a separate file…

As Servant of Cats has explained, camera raw is a separate thing for Photoshop. The exact location is:

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw

Have you tried cloning the working one to the SSD?

How is the SSD Formatted? I ask because in Mojave I have apps that will run on MacOS Extended SSD, but fail big time in Mojave on an APFS SSD.

Ok...

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/dng

If you need an ftp client...

https://cyberduck.io