Anybody else confirmed this issue with LR 4 install over existing LR3?

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My NIK plugins all work fine. Make sure you download and install the new plugins that have been released to support LR4.
 
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They've found the bug and are working on a fix. There's a very good chance they'll also publish a fix, for those affected, as they have with other catalog-affecting bugs in the past. So yes it's a pain, but don't panic.
 
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Which bug, Victoria? The catalog upgrade (no photos displayed in All Photographs), or the "Edit in" not working? Or are they connected?
 
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TNG said:
Which bug, Victoria? The catalog upgrade (no photos displayed in All Photographs), or the "Edit in" not working? Or are they connected?
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The point curve being lost in certain situations.

Not sure about the others, I'm trying to catch up.
 
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sizzlingbadger said:
My NIK plugins all work fine. Make sure you download and install the new plugins that have been released to support LR4.
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I tried that, still dose not work. Thinking PSE download or wait for a fix??????
 
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As far as I can understand right now, there are 3 (so far unrelated) bugs bothering many users, and on all of them Adobe is working on a fix:
  • ToneCurve settings not transfered to LR4 catalogs properly upon catalog conversion
  • (Nik) plug-ins (more specific external editors) not working properly. Again, having CS or PSE installed (which I guess most of us have) seems to inhibit this bug
  • Folder contents not shown on catalogs with a large number of images in a folder

Beat
 
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This is a good example of not jumping in straight away every time there is an upgrade. I always leave it for while to let the dust settle down. I need an new computer anyway so will probably join the fray at LR4.1 or 4.2.
 
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Hi all,

Found this on the Adobe forum and works on my Windows 7 64bit machine. All the Nik stuff now works.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4257943#4257943

Create "Fake" Registry Key


Using the Navagator on the Left hand side of the screen: Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\
Right-click the App Paths folder and choose New > Key.
Type Photoshop.exe as the name of the new key, then press Enter.
Right-click the Photoshop.exe folder and choose New > String Value.
Type Path as the name of the new value, then press Enter.
In the right pane of the registry, right-click the (Default) value and choose Modify.
In the Value Data field, enter C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Photoshop.exe
Click OK.
In the right pane of the registry, right-click the Path value and choose Modify.
In the Value Data field, enter C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\
Click OK.
Exit the registry.
 
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MarkNicholas said:
This is a good example of not jumping in straight away every time there is an upgrade. I always leave it for while to let the dust settle down. I need an new computer anyway so will probably join the fray at LR4.1 or 4.2.
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Thanks buddy, hope you like my work anyway ....
 
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chris02 said:
Hi all,

Found this on the Adobe forum and works on my Windows 7 64bit machine. All the Nik stuff now works.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4257943#4257943

Create "Fake" Registry Key


Using the Navagator on the Left hand side of the screen: Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\
Right-click the App Paths folder and choose New > Key.
Type Photoshop.exe as the name of the new key, then press Enter.
Right-click the Photoshop.exe folder and choose New > String Value.
Type Path as the name of the new value, then press Enter.
In the right pane of the registry, right-click the (Default) value and choose Modify.
In the Value Data field, enter C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Photoshop.exe
Click OK.
In the right pane of the registry, right-click the Path value and choose Modify.
In the Value Data field, enter C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\
Click OK.
Exit the registry.
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Thanks for the info, great work....but

I have been with this program since Beta Beta and still, nothins changed. Every release is fraught with bugs and then this...really.

@Mark I thought this is what alpha and beta testing is for!

I dont have time to be @%#^ing with registries and tricking my computer into tricking some software to do the job we pay good money for.
 
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I guess the reason why this problem slipped through all the testings is the fact that 99.5% of the testers do have PSE or CS5 installed, which makes the external editors function normally.

Beat
 
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I have PSE9 and tried to use the NIK plug ins for the first time and nothing works. No error messages just nothing happens. Question, can you use NIK plug ins on JPEG's I usually shoot Raw but have some older jpegs. I spent hours organizing my photos into my pictures and am ready to start uploading into lightroom 4. Did a small sample of three photos and tried using NIK plug ins but they don't work. Any suggestions?
 
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I can only speak for Viveza 2, which works fine for JPEGs. Have you tried re-installing PSE9?

Beat
 
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I just looked into this on my system and found that importing my LR3 catalog into LR4 had no impact on the history for the original RAW files edited in LR3. I also checked and the process shows as 2010 for each file.
 
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keithz829 said:
I just looked into this on my system and found that importing my LR3 catalog into LR4 had no impact on the history for the original RAW files edited in LR3. I also checked and the process shows as 2010 for each file.
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That's quite normal. PV2010 retains the existing settings. You can choose to upgrade photos to PV2012 when you want to reprocess them with the new sliders, or you can leave them with their current LR3 appearance.
 
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homefreesoon said:
I have PSE9 and tried to use the NIK plug ins for the first time and nothing works. No error messages just nothing happens. Question, can you use NIK plug ins on JPEG's I usually shoot Raw but have some older jpegs. I spent hours organizing my photos into my pictures and am ready to start uploading into lightroom 4. Did a small sample of three photos and tried using NIK plug ins but they don't work. Any suggestions?
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Hi homefreezon, welcome to the forum! One other thought - have you got the latest Nik updates?
 
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Victoria Bampton said:
That's quite normal. PV2010 retains the existing settings. You can choose to upgrade photos to PV2012 when you want to reprocess them with the new sliders, or you can leave them with their current LR3 appearance.
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Something I noticed that does seem odd.

If you create a Smart Collection with the rule [Has Adjustments][false] -- and then select an image within the collection that has PV 2010.

If you then change it to PV 2003, it disappears form the smart collection -- presumably that counts as an 'adjustment'

If you undo and change it to PV 2012, it remains within the smart collection -- presumably this time it doesn't count as an adjustment.

I'm hoping to make sense of this b/c it impacts how I might transition from 2010 to 2012.
 
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Mmmmm, I've heard someone else report that too. I think it's because PV2012 with no adjustments is the default setting, so technically it has no adjustments, whereas PV2003 is not default and is therefore an adjustment.
 
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Victoria Bampton said:
Mmmmm, I've heard someone else report that too. I think it's because PV2012 with no adjustments is the default setting, so technically it has no adjustments, whereas PV2003 is not default and is therefore an adjustment.
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I think that someone else was me. :crazy:

Here's my concern: if I convert a PV2010 file to PV2012 now, and it it's seen as an adjustment -- what happens with a later version of Lightroom with the next PV? Will that file then not be in the "no adjustments" collection? See what I mean?
 
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To be honest, I'm really struggling to understand your concern. I get that you might want to update all previously un-edited images (which are at PV2010) to PV2012....which then brings them into line with every new image that you shoot and import into LR4, i.e. PV2012 and no adjustments. Assuming the next version of LR introduces yet another new PV, you can presumably go through the same process, i.e. which of my PV2012 images have I not changed, which are therefore OK to update to the next PV. Some pretty big assumptions there.

The fact that changing a PV2010 image to PV2003, and have it recorded as an adjustment, just seems a bit irrelevant to me. BTW, after changing an un-edited PV2010 image to PV2003 (whereupon it drops out of your "Adjustments is False" smart collection) have you noticed that if you then change it again, this time to PV2012, it gets added back into the smart collection?
 
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TNG said:
To be honest, I'm really struggling to understand your concern. I get that you might want to update all previously un-edited images (which are at PV2010) to PV2012....which then brings them into line with every new image that you shoot and import into LR4, i.e. PV2012 and no adjustments. Assuming the next version of LR introduces yet another new PV, you can presumably go through the same process, i.e. which of my PV2012 images have I not changed, which are therefore OK to update to the next PV.
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The concern is that since PV2010>PV2003 counts as an adjustment within LR4, and PV2010>PV2012 does not count as an adjustment within LR4 -- there seems to be no way of knowing whether files converted from PV2010 to PV2012 within LR4 will be seen as having an adjustment when, say, LR5 comes out.
 
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The point is:

a) Any un-edited PV2010 files which you update to PV2012 will be the same as any NEW files which you import from now on.
b) None of us know what changes will happen with LR5 and beyond, so I don't see the point in worrying about it.
 
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TNG said:
The point is:

a) Any un-edited PV2010 files which you update to PV2012 will be the same as any NEW files which you import from now on.
b) None of us know what changes will happen with LR5 and beyond, so I don't see the point in worrying about it.
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I was assuming I should use a "no adjustments" smart collection to batch convert PV2010 to PV2012 -- but if doing so counts as an adjustment when the next PV comes out, then I won't be able to perform a similar batch conversion.
 
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