CR2 files and Elements 12

I have a Canon EOS 70D and Elements 12 (bought and downloaded today) won't open the CR2 files. How can this be rectified? I normally shoot in RAW for best quality.

Help> Updates will update ACR to v8.4 and add support for the 70D.
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Neale
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More than likely you do. You can check the Adobe site for the necessary update to Camera RAW but in general Adobe only lets you update the last one or 2 versions of Elements or even the full Photoshop package.
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Glenans a écrit:
"As has been stressed before," - but not to me and I never imagined that there was any "present converting software that can edit the raw files from cameras which will be issued tomorrow". What I did imagine was that old software is updated to include newer and newer cameras and this seems to be the case.
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