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March 30, 2021

P: (Windows only): HEIC Files not supported with active subscription

  • March 30, 2021
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I am seeing a warning on LR desktop all HEIC files saying HEIC files are not supported without a subscription. However I do have an active subscription, and I am able to edit those files on LR mobile, and on a second PC. I have tried restarting LR, logging out and back in, reinstalling LR and doing a full preferences reset. Also did double/triple check that my account is up to date and I am logged in correctly.

I can view, organise & caption all my images, but I cannot edit them. I can edit jpg files, just not HEIC. This only started a few days ago. 

 

I contacted Adobe support. After about 2 hours they ended by saying "We have never seen this issue before" .

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They said they will get their engineering team to have a look at it, but I have not heard back.

 

45 replies

Participant
May 11, 2021

Has there been any news on update - very frustrating being unable to edit or export 

Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 29, 2021

Apologies, that one should have been taken down when the newer one went live. For reference, the one that goes through Creative Cloud downgrades is How do I roll back to an earlier Lightroom Classic release?

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Shelley_AAuthor
Participating Frequently
April 28, 2021

I's been so long I decided I would roll back to the previous version. Just FYI - that link you provided perhaps applies to LR Classic.  For LR desktop it is done through the Creative CLoud App. 

Shelley_AAuthor
Participating Frequently
April 28, 2021

Any news about this bug? It's been a while and it does render LR pretty much unusable. 

Inspiring
April 9, 2021

Thank you! I use so few of the adobe tools, my frustration comes through as I'm quite adept usually, with decades invested in tech software/hardware, putting more time into things that are anticipated to work that have a real & ongoing cost is now somewhat more annoying than usual 🙂

Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 9, 2021

It's a confirmed bug, Windows only, I'll merge you into the main post.

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Inspiring
April 9, 2021

Forgot to mention, the images are standard photos taken with the iphone, and I use an icloud account to sync them, but in parallel, use lightroom, and it syncs independently. I think I have the ios settings to save original, and the phone has only a couple of gigs photos on it, while the lightroom sync on the iphone has 15gb+, so I assume that it's an apple HEVC file pushed or pulled into lightroom app & synced, but then unable to be exported to my PC desktop when retrieved via the PC. It's a frustrating error and does make me immediately question the value of paying for an adobe sub, so I'm hoping it can be resolved properly and within a reasonable time.

Inspiring
April 9, 2021

Hello,

I've bought the video HEIC extentions on windows 10, and already have installed the image extensions via the microsoft store, but I still get this error. Is it all of you or just me? The files are being synced via my iphone 8, through the lightroom IoS app, to the standard lightroom. All devices are latest version/fully patched. I'm technical so can gather any specific data and selectively test individual patches & procedures to aid someone who might wish to assist.

The exact error text is:

HEIC files are only supported with an active subscription (1)
    IMG_5269.HEIC

The process I follow is:

Open lightroom cloud

right click image in primary view area of screen

click export

click original & settings

click desktop

click select folder

-get 'export results: some export operations were not performed.'

Shelley_AAuthor
Participating Frequently
April 4, 2021

Thank you Victoria for the suggestion. The Adobe support person did that while he had control of my computer but it didn't seem to help. Meanwhile I am OK to wait for a fix - I can edit on my iPad or my other laptop so it's not critical (yet). It's odd that my 2nd laptop has the same version of LR and Windows 10 and yet I'm not having the same issue there. 

Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 31, 2021

Thanks for verifying @Rikk 

In that case @shelley_alexander, you could roll back a version for now: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/roll-back-update-previous/

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen