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July 4, 2016
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Keeping Creative Cloud Products Separate from Stand-alone Purchases

  • July 4, 2016
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Last year I purchased Lightroom 6 as a stand-alone product, which I installed on my primary home desktop.

Recently, I attended a course on using Lightroom and Photoshop, and followed a recommendation to purchase the Creative Cloud subscription versions of these applications, which I installed on my laptop.  I was advised during the course that I could also install these applications on my home desktop under the subscription rules.

I uninstalled the stand-alone version of Lightroom 6 from my primary desktop, and successfully installed the Creative Cloud subscription versions of both Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC.

My Adobe account clearly shows that I own the stand-alone Lightroom 6, as well as holding a Creative Cloud subscription for Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC.

I then tried to install my stand-alone version of lightroom 6 on my secondary home desktop, which my wife uses.  Even though I downloaded the installation files from the  "non-subscription" section of the Adobe website, it does not install as version 6, but as the CC version, and I get an error message telling me I have tried to exceed my allowed number of installations.

How do I keep my purchased version of Lightroom 6, which I fully own, separate from the Creative Cloud subscription installations?

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    Correct answer 99jon

    You will need to create a second Adobe account. Use the new ID for your stand-alone product.

    If the product continues to show as LR CC or a trial see this link on how to use your serial number.

    How to convert a Lightroom CC trial to Lightroom 6

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    99jon
    99jonCorrect answer
    Legend
    July 4, 2016

    You will need to create a second Adobe account. Use the new ID for your stand-alone product.

    If the product continues to show as LR CC or a trial see this link on how to use your serial number.

    How to convert a Lightroom CC trial to Lightroom 6

    RoryTAuthor
    Participant
    July 4, 2016

    Many thanks - seems to have worked, in that LR now opens as version 6.