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Brizzoluk
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November 22, 2024
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lost in Lightroom confusion

  • November 22, 2024
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Hi everyone

 

I need a bit of help with Lightroom versions and functionality as I'm a bit lost with it!

Hopefully one of you nice people can help me with it.

 

So, I have been running Lightroom 6, which i paid a one of licence for, since about 2012, and have always gotten on fine with it, but I always thought there was a better version with more features around which I thought was Lightroom cc or lightroom classic, are these the same?

 

So this week I have been on the Adobe website and looked at the subscription packages available and signed up for the 20gb photography package on a free trial for 7 days.

 

So now I go on my crative cloud homepage and it shows now i have lightroom classic v6.0, is this not what i already had?

When I open it, it just seems to open my lightroom 6?

 

I have copied the information from the system info below

 

Am i being stupid here or am i going mad?

 

Thanks for reading...

 

Lightroom version: 6.14 [ 1149743 ]
License: Perpetual
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 10 - Home Premium Edition
Version: 10.0.22631
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 12
Processor speed: 4.2 GHz
Built-in memory: 32682.5 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 32682.5 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 652.1 MB (1.9%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 769.2 MB
GDI objects count: 380
USER objects count: 1005
Process handles count: 1279
Memory cache size: 172.8MB / 7914.6MB (2.2%)
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 7
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 47MB / 16341MB (0%)
System DPI setting: 96 DPI
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 1920x1080
Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Check OpenGL support: Passed
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 566.14
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
LanguageVersion: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler


Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom
Library Path: E:\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat

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GoldingD
GoldingD
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November 22, 2024

First up, do you have more than one computer? I ask because some find that if they install the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App, they have issues reverting back to the old perpetual Lightroom 6.14. If you have a second computer, Accomplish your test, your trial on it. (I could be wrong)

 

Second, up, Did you download and install the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App? It is required to install the Adobe applications in the various Adobe Plans.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/creative-cloud-desktop-app-download.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    BrizzolukAuthor
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    November 22, 2024

    Hey GoldingD

     

    No I only have the one computer, running windows 11.

    i downloaded the creative cloud desktop app, and downloaded lightroom classic through that.

    According to the app its showing that i have Lightroom classic installed, but when I click on it to open it, I'm pretty sure its just opening my old Lightroom 6.

    Per Berntsen
    Community Expert
    Per BerntsenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 23, 2024

    Ok thank you Per Berntsen and GoldingD

    I think I am getting somewhere...

    I searched through my program files folder and found the Lightroom classic.exe and opened it from there.

    It opened it and then asked me to upgrade my catolog, which I did, and then Lightroom classic finally opened with my whole catolog seamlessly moved into it!

    But then I looked for my old Lightroom 6 and it seemed to have disappeared, so I found it in the program files and opened it from there, which it did but my catolog has gone from there, should I be worried about that?

     

    So now when I go to my apps in the creative cloud desktop app, I have 3 versions of Lightroom there.

    Lightroom

    Lightroom classic v6.0

    Lightroom classic v14.0.1

     

    None of which is my old lightroom 6, why do i have two classic versions, and which one should i be using?

    Can my catolog be easily put back into Lightroom 6 if I need to?

     

    Thanks.

     


    Adobe's naming of the various Lightroom applications is unfortunate and extremely confusing.

    In the beginning (2007) there was only one Lightroom, and when LR 6 was released, it was version 6 of the original Lightroom.

    At the same time, the subscription model was introduced, but you could still buy LR 6 as a standalone version for some time. If you started a subscription, you would get "Lightroom CC 2015", which had slightly more features than LR 6.

     

    In 2017, a new, cloud-based version was introduced, with the name "Lightroom".

    The original Lightroom was renamed to "Lightroom Classic",  which is now on version 14.

     

    So the three versions you see in the desktop app are

    • Lightroom (cloud based, and with less features than Lightroom Classic)
    • Lightroom 6 (wrongly called "Lightroom Classic 6.0", there was never a version with that name)
    • Lightroom Classic 14.01 (the current version that you should be using)

     

    There is no reason to use the old LR 6 when you have access to the latest LrC.

    Although they look and feel very similar, LrC has loads of new features, and has come long way since LR 6, which is nine years old.

     

    Note that catalogs are not backwards compatible, so you cannot open an LrC catalog in LR 6.

    If you should want to open LR 6, you will probably find the catalog under File > Open recent.

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