Lightroom: Edit In External Editor does not work/function

Lightroom 4.1 is now available on Adobe Labs:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/li...

Includes a fix for this issue, plus several other top issues and includes 5D Mk III support:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/li...

Note: If you're setting Photoshop Elements up as an External Editor, make sure you choose the "Photoshop Elements Editor" not the alias for Photoshop Elements (which launches the welcome screen):

I thought I would mention that this issue (or at least very closely related) is being reported by many users in the Adobe Forum, here:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/971432...

I failed to mention earlier is that this issue did not exist with the LR4 Beta - I was able to send to a variety of external editors from there. I also trashed the LR preferences and tried running on a clean user account, both to no avail.

Well, I may be talking to myself here but here is another (probably more related) thread at the Adobe forum where users are talking about this issue:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/42516...

NIK plugins are not working anymore. LR4 with MAC 10.7.3 and complete collection of NIK.

It was still OK in the BETA version but the final release does not work. The plugin's still show up in " edit photo in xxxx" but nothing happens.

I tried to re-install the plugin but during installation it only sees the LR3 program but not LR4.

Only the export to HDR plugin works

I use the complete collection of the NIK plugin. Bought 3 months ago.
I use MAC 10.7.3

hope this can be fixed soon

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: NIK plugins are not working in Lightroom 4.

Edit in PSCS5 causes this error message:

Unexpected error performing command: bad argument #1 to 'lower' (string expected, got nil)

And searching through various threads and forums the best I can find is this thread (which is closed for comment) http://forums.adobe.com/message/42492... but reinstalling PS doesn't seem like a reasonable solution for a bug in LR4.
Any fixes coming?

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom: LR4 Edit in error "bad argument #1 to 'lower' (string expected, got nil)".

Lightroom 4 does not support the latest NIK plugins that worked on the LR4 beta. When Can I expect a fix for this ridiculous problem? I have cancelled my order for LR4 since it is UNUSABLE in its current state.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Up-to-date NIK plugins not supported in LR4.

What I do not understand is that it works in the Beta version. When i re-install the beta version all works fine.

Something went wrong on the way when preparing the final LR4 version I guess.

For sure the NIK plugins are supported in LR4. This is because NIK almost instantly updated their pug ins.

You can see this when installing an older version of a NIK plugin. in that case it will only see the LR3 version in the install window. After installing the latest plugin of NIK it sees LR3 + LR4 in the install window.

I also ordered the LR4 software. And indeed if they do not fix it then it is useless and I will return the box and ask for refund.

For sure it will not get that far. (I hope)

I'm running LR4 on a MAC pro with Lion 10.7.3

regards
andre

Hi guys,

The team is investigating this issue to provide some guidance soon. Thanks for your patience and reporting this issue.

A variant to this problem for me is that I can "edit in" PSCS5 as before but the file opens without any LR corrections applied. IOW just as it was imported.

My workaround is to export the files I wish to edit and then re-import them into LR.

Mac 10.6.8

For me too. Nothing working in Edit in (PS CS5, Nik, etc.). Version in Portuguese (editar em)

I have this problem myself. Am anxiously awaiting the fix. How long will it take?

Mac 10.7.3

I cannot use any external editor in lightroom 4, I receive an error dialog with the following message:

Unexpected error performing command:
bad argument #1to 'lower' (string expected, got nil)

This worked fine in LR 3, since the upgrade to 4 I have started receiving this error message

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Cannot use any external editor with Lightroom 4.

Waiting for the fix, no response from adobe??
cheers
my Observations I have made are these ...

There seems to be a missing component or even probably a 32bit compiled version for the 64 bit editions or some error in that component in the external plugin area of final LR4;
which can be healed with installing CS5 or PSE

/K

I'd be happy if the bug fix was to give all LR users a free copy of CS5 :D