X-Rite Color Checker plugin fails to complete profile...

Whereas I'm able to get the desktop version of the Color Checker profile maker to work fine, the X-Rite Lightroom plugin consistently fails to complete a profiling operation--quitting with the message that it "is unable to locate the color checker crop marks" in my image. In one such
"failed" image, the (in focus) color checker occupies about 75% of the frame!
I'm using LR 3.6, Mac OS X 6.8. Latest versions of the X-Rite software. Is this a common problem (making the plugin pretty useless)?
Phil

Yes, the desktop (standalone) version of the software is able to complete a profile--although it does ask me identify the crop marks (btw, the color pattern is in-focus and more than a stop below clipping the white patch).
I can understand that the plugin might fail to detect the crop marks when the pattern is only a small fraction of the frame, or blurred and/or poorly exposed; however the plugin is failing (for me) with a very large pattern--a majority of the frame area---sharp focus and good exposure.
**************update!
Hmmm. As I got ready to post this reply, I tried using the X-rite LR plugin one more time, and...it worked! Can't explain why or what I might have done differently. I had used the desktop profile maker (with another image) a little earlier and then had restarted LR; that restart seemed to have helped(?) even though I'd restarted LR a couple of times yesterday after installing the X-rite plugin. Anyway, the problem is gone now...
Phil

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