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fionab1965
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September 15, 2018
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Trying to download LR onto MACBOOK PRO OSX 10.9.5

  • September 15, 2018
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Forgive my ignorance. I'm just learning!

Have a monthly subscription to Adobe creative cloud account which allows me to use Photoshop and LR on my iMac.

Have just bought a reconditioned MacBook Pro OSX 10.9.5 and have tried to download both bits of software so that I can start to tether to my laptop in studio.

Think it may not be possible with Maverick (if I'm right in saying this is what my laptop runs on??)

Is there a way round this - finding an older version

of LR which is compatible? Are these available from Adobe online?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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      DdeGannes
      Community Expert
      DdeGannesCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      September 16, 2018

      I have a Mac Book Pro mid 2009 which I have upgraded to OSX 10.11.6 so you should explore the possible through the Apple site.

      Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.3; PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.
        dj_paige
        dj_paige
        Legend
        September 15, 2018

        The current creative cloud software and current versions of Lightroom will not run on OSX 10.9.5. You need OSX 10.11 for the current versions to run.

        You might find an older version of LR that runs on OSX 10.9.5, but you don't have a license for the older versions, so only the trial would run and then expire after a certain period of time.

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        fionab1965Author
        Participant
        September 15, 2018

        Thanks.

        So there's no way for me to use photoshop or LR on this laptop? Do I have any options?

        dj_paige
        dj_paige
        Legend
        September 15, 2018

        As far as I know, the only option I can think of is to find and purchase an older version of Lightroom and Photoshop. And even then, work done on the newer version of Lightroom might not be usable (or might not appear the same) on the older version of Lightroom — in other words, transferring your work between computers is a problem.

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