"Merge to HDR" option suddenly missing!

All of a sudden, my option to do a HDR merge is completely gone. Can anyone help me to get it back???? Thanks in advance!!
[I am running CS2 on a mac)

Have you moved the application out of its folder?
if so put it back.

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I've notice that this seems to be a problem, but nowhere have I seen an answer that resolved it, so I thought it is worth posting again. Merge to HDR Pro is why I pay for Adobe CC and if it can't be made to work reliably, I'll stop paying!
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If I use Photoshop to File | Automate | Merge to HDR Pro, same process happens - does everthing except the critical step of taking you into the HDR window.
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I have also encountered this problem today working with a batch of .NEF files, using File > Automate > Merge to HDR in CC 2014. Same problem running from the Bridge > Tools menu. I suspected an issue with scene complexity for alignment until I checked this post.
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I tried an archive set of brackets and they worked OK. I also converted the .NEFs > .PSDs and that worked OK.
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4333045/NEFs.zip
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5. Re: Automatic updates wont update to Camera Raw 8.5
Ashutosh.Nigam Jun 23, 2014 11:23 PM (in response to MB-Photography)
Please follow the below mentioned steps to resolve the issue:
Quit and Relaunch CC app
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/creative-cloud-connection-faq.html#id_10491
Open the Adobe Creative Cloud application.
Mac OS: Go to the Applications folder and open the Adobe Creative Cloud alias.
Windows 7: Go to Start > All Programs > Adobe Creative Cloud
Windows 8: Open the Adobe Creative Cloud application from the Start Screen.
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I am doing a Photoshop CS6 course. One tutorial involves using "merge to HDR Pro" shioch shoule be in File - Automate. I don't have this in my menu listing. Does anyone know why this is and if it is possible to add it? Thank you.

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>Am I missing something here?
Some basic info, like WHAT VERSION OF PHOTOSHOP ARE YOU USING? While one might presume you are using Photoshop CS3, if you don't state it, how will anybody know?
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Attached is screen shot. What happens is I go to File/Automate/Merge to HDR Pro, then select my 3 images, which are flattened psd files (I have tried tifs and jogs too), hit OK, it processes them, but instead of the image appearing, I get this black image. You can see my original images at bottom... jpegs too),

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Trevor.Dennis wrote:
Yes I realised that. There are now quite a few applications for processing HDR, and IMO Photomatix has always been the best of them, and certainly did a better job than Photoshop. My point was that the old 'Merge to HDR Pro' workflow is now redundant if you have Photoshop CC, and that using Camera RAW as outlined by Julianne Kost, has suddenly leapfrogged all the competition by an order of magnitude.
So I strongly urge you to take Mr Prengel's advice. Output the image in 32bit, and use ACR to process it. Did you watch the video tutorial I linked to?
You certainly shouldn't get all pixel-peeper about how the 32bit image looks on your screen. It is not possible to show the tonal width of a 32 bit image on a computer screen, so you are seeing a 'representation' of how it might look after processing.
FWIIW I have taught HDR (and Photoshop) to some of the best photographers in the world at two PSNZ National Conventions back in 2010 and 2011, so I kind of have strong opinions about it. Not that I use it excessively, but it is a very handy tool to keep in your photographic skills repertoire.
Trevor,
I am sorry if I misunderstood your post. I am actually using the same workflow as Julianne Kost in her video (which I had watched prior to posting here). And, as I posted above, I do agree with Mr. Prengel that I should just take the 32 bit image into Camera Raw and do the toning there. As a matter of fact, that is what I have been doing in Photoshop CC (sending the pictures from Lightroom, same as Julianne Kosts does), and I can do a very good job, if I say so myself.
So the question I had was merely one of puzzlement at seeing the difference between the image just before exiting HDR Pro and what shows up in Camera Raw. In the examples I provided, and in many other cases, it clearly went beyond pixel-peeping: they were two very different images. But I think I understand now why this is, which you kindly pointed out: it is not possible to show the tonal width of a 32 bit image on a computer monitor. I had not considered that and I thank you for mentioning it.
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