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Adobe will end LR6 downloads

Next step, they'll stop activating it. So much for "buying" something in the digital age.
 
Also anyone with Mac 64 bit OS won’t be able to install it anyway. It’s installer is 32 bit. Can’t remember off hand when they went 64 bit.
 
I held on to Lr6 1.14 for a long while - rebelling against the subscription and its a good editor, but I finally caved. Lrc is a great editor - and Ps has cool toys I use so yeah, I caved.

I truly wish Adobe's competition great success - because real Competition will keep Adobe trying and innovating. If competition was dead, there would be little motivation for Adobe to innovate or provide good customer service - which they certainly have to me.
 
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Immaculens said:
I held on to Lr6 1.14 for a long while - rebelling against the subscription and its a good editor, but I finally caved. Lrc is a great editor - and Ps has cool toys I use so yeah, I caved.

I truly wish Adobe's competition great success - because real Competition will keep Adobe try and innovating. If competition was dead, there would be little motivation for Adobe to innovate or provide good customer service - which they certainly have to me.
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I subscribed several years ago. It’s a great value. Never looked back.
 
Mike_d said:
Next step, they'll stop activating it. So much for "buying" something in the digital age.
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Two responses at the Lightroom Queen.

From what I have read, I understand that 'help' with Activations and de-activations will also cease, but I do not know what "help" infers. Perhaps similar to the situation with creative suite activations for CS1-CS4 (these versions are 'Dead'. Activation servers have been shut down.)

That is the question. Right now, if both activations have been used up, activating requires sending Carissa a PM via forum thread. That said, I hear she's only getting a couple of requests a month now, so it's probably a moot point.
 
Were these downloads from a source other than Adobe? I thought this ended years ago. I still have an old computer with my bought copies and they were updated as long as I thought I was able. I've been on a $10 subscription for years.
 
Bill in Texas said:
Were these downloads from a source other than Adobe? I thought this ended years ago. I still have an old computer with my bought copies and they were updated as long as I thought I was able. I've been on a $10 subscription for years.
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It was not advertised. If you have a licence code you could contact Adobe and they would provide a download link. You could get LR6 from 3rd party sources but only the first version, no updates.
 
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Immaculens said:
I held on to Lr6 1.14 for a long while - rebelling against the subscription and its a good editor, but I finally caved. Lrc is a great editor - and Ps has cool toys I use so yeah, I caved.

I truly wish Adobe's competition great success - because real Competition will keep Adobe trying and innovating. If competition was dead, there would be little motivation for Adobe to innovate or provide good customer service - which they certainly have to me.
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Competition is good for everyone.
 
Bill in Texas said:
Were these downloads from a source other than Adobe? I thought this ended years ago. I still have an old computer with my bought copies and they were updated as long as I thought I was able. I've been on a $10 subscription for years.
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Me too. Since 2017. I just had to verify that LrC required local storage and that did it. By LrC 8 I knew I could never go back to LR6.

Lr 7 (cloudy version) had an interesting update this last fall. It now allows for either cloud or local file storage. Still not as robust as LrC. Personally I can hardly wait for Adobe to turf LrC or Lr and have one app as long as it has all LrC has to offer and the local/cloud storage options. I then would likely start to explore cloud storage. Up till now I've never installed Lr.
 
digital paradise said:
Me too. Since 2017. I just had to verify that LrC required local storage and that did it. By LrC 8 I knew I could never go back to LR6.

Lr 7 (cloudy version) had an interesting update this last fall. It now allows for either cloud or local file storage. Still not as robust as LrC. Personally I can hardly wait for Adobe to turf LrC or Lr and have one app as long as it has all LrC has to offer and the local/cloud storage options. I then would likely start to explore cloud storage. Up till now I've never installed Lr.
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Yeah I just read a blog posted by the Lightroom Queen who just spelled out the differences between Lightroom 'Local*' and Lrc. I use Lrc only (but also on my phone and tablet when needed) and Lightroom Local still has a long way to go before I adopt it. I depend on importing, the catalog organising features, labels, and export presets - none of which are in Lr Local. Yet.
[Edit: I could adapt to no importing]
*Local being the new October feature as an oprion vs cloud.

www.lightroomqueen.com

Should I move from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom Local? | The Lightroom Queen

If you’ve been around the Lightroom community over the last week, you’ve probably heard a lot of chatter and even more confusion about Lightroom’s new
www.lightroomqueen.com www.lightroomqueen.com
 
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That is a valuable site. In case someone is reading this using LrC you can sync to the cloud but it only sends smart previews, not your actual files. They are so small they don't even count towards your allotted storage space. You can access those smart previews with mobile or other desktop device, edit them and those edits will sync back to your desktop.

That is how LrC is integrated with Portfolio. You sync collections to the cloud which again are smart previews and download them to Portfolio. I've never tried it. I just upload a few at a time from my desktop.
 
Immaculens said:
This Lr vs Lrc conversation seems deserving of its own thread maybe?
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Probably.

I've watch some videos on the LR model and it's really the same thing just laid out differently. All the same features (and maybe a few more) are there!

Old habits are hard to break, however. ;)
 
Immaculens said:
This Lr vs Lrc conversation seems deserving of its own thread maybe?
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No one has started anything about that yet. Not sure how much interest there is. It has been around for 6 years and there are a lot of resources. I went off topic a bit I didn't so bad on for this one. I'm highjacking my own thread. :) That is of course debatable.
 
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