Problem With Nik Plugins and Lightroom 4.3

I bought a Drobo Mini and moved my photos and my Lightroom Catalog onto it.  The reason I did this was because I just bought a MacBook Pro laptop to supplement my Mac Pro Desktop and I wanted to be able to use both computers with the Drobo Mini and not have to constantly be importing Catalogs back and forth.  This was a solution that Tim Grey recommended.  The advantage is I can take the Drobo Mini with me on the road and add my new photos directly to the Catalog when I'm traveling, and then when I get home, I can just hook up the Drobo Mini to the Mac Pro Desktop and continue with my work.  The problem I've encountered is with my Nik plugins Color Efex Pro 4 and Silver Efex Pro 2.  On the new computer everything works fine.  On the desktop computer I can't go directly from Lightroom into Color Efex Pro 4 or Silver Efex Pro 2 for the new photos initially downloaded from the new computer.  For all my photos downloaded through the old computer, both computers work fine.  Only the new computer works with the Nik Filters for the new photos.  Also, if I go over to Photoshop from Lightroom, the new photos won't let me just hit "Save" and exit Photoshop.  Instead, I have to designate a location for the "Save" as if I was doing a "Save As" and then it doesn't show up in Lightroom unless I import it again.  I'm trying to get some answers from Nik but I thought maybe someone on this forum might know what is causing this problem??  Any help greatly appreciated.
SaratogaLefty

Nik developers don't participate in this forum -- it's mainly for developers to discuss technical issues of using the Lightroom Software Developer Kit.  You might have better luck reposting in the main LR forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom

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