Bridget

Thank you very much. I promise to turn off my computer every day.

This is what I have. Is this ACR opened over the top of Elements?

Yeah... I didn't want to have to navigate to the correct spot in the Bridge course every day, even though it only takes 15 seconds. Total laziness. Lesson learned.

Yes. And Elements opens. Who would have guessed? Prompts me to install the ACR plug in which I am doing now.

I have a PC desktop running Windows 10 and Elements 2025. It is over 6 years old, and has 8GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 44.9GB free out of 118GB, and it runs a Radeon Vega Graphics graphics card. The last time I shut down was more than a week ago, because I'm an idiot. I rarely run a cleanup program. 😆 (I did very recently run a Glary Utilities clean up)

Oh man this isn't going to be good... but OK

Specifically, Elements itself isn't opening.

Hm... it isn't opening.

Nothing happens. Prior to downloaded ACR, double clicking would open in Elements.

Yes. "Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor 25.0 (default) comes up first, below that 'Browse', below that 'Change Associations'.

Get "Camera Raw editing is not enabled" etc Same when I right click and "open in camera raw".

I bought the three year license to Elements. Elements doesn't show up in CC desktop. Bridge does. And ACR does too, now that I have downloaded it.

Nope, nothing happens. Well, a brief spinning blue wheel, then nothing.

Yes well I had a major whoopsie and at some point accidentally changed my camera settings to take JPEGs instead of RAW. And didn't notice for more than a year. All my RAW are off the internal HD and google told me I could open JPEGs in ACR so I tried to continue with the JPEGs. I can transfer some RAWs from by archive though... give me a minute.