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colinm68
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October 18, 2025
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Standalone Lightroom Classic and mac mini M4

  • October 18, 2025
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I have  recently bought a new Mac Min M4, and want to run the standalone copy of LR on it which I bought. Is there a way to do this? I'm not interested in subscription plans.

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dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
October 18, 2025

Adding, the current subscription version of Lightroom Classic does run on your M4 Mac. And you can use your existing catalog from the standalone version.

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    colinm68Author
    Participant
    October 19, 2025

    Thanks. I'm not using LR enough at the moment to justify a monthly subscription, so I'll look at alternatives which are no subscription based. Assuming there are some....

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 18, 2025

    No. The installer for this ancient version is 32 bits, and 32 bits apps are no longer supported on modern Macs.

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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      colinm68Author
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      October 19, 2025

      Thanks Johan. This makes sense.

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