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April 4, 2020
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Updating Lightroom 5 to current Version

  • April 4, 2020
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When I update to the most current Verison of Light Room from Lightroom 5, will all

my work be mirgrated to the newesr verison of Lightrom?

 

  Thanks for any help.

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dj_paige
Legend
April 5, 2020

Yes, if you subscribe to the Photography Plan, your current work (in your current catalog) will indeed be copied and upgraded to work in Lightroom Classic, which is what you want. You also get the cloud version called Lightroom, which you may or may not want, I have never installed it. Don't confuse Lightroom Classic with Lightroom, even though the names are confusing.

Participant
April 5, 2020

Thanks for your reply. Big help!

Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 4, 2020

Depends what you mean by the "most current Verison of Light Room"!

 

The current version that upgrades with the features of Lr-5 (and more added) is called Lightroom-CLASSIC and is at v9.2

Lr-Classic is only available by subscription to the Photography Plan 20Gb.

After installing Lr-Classic by using the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App, Lr-Classic will do a copy and upgrade your Lr5 working catalog to be compatible with Lr-Classic 9.2.

 

OTOH- Lightroom (Cloud based) v3.2 is an entirely new program (NOT at upgrade from Lr5) and your photos are stored in Cloud storage.  Lightroom cannot "migrate" your Lr5 catalog to the Cloud unless you first upgrade it (perhaps with a trial of Lr-Cassic), but there certainly is that facility.

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/migrate-from-classic-to-lightroom-cloud/

https://helpx.adobe.com/au/lightroom-cc/using/migrate-to-lightroom-cc.html

 

Note that the Photography Plan with 20Gb includes both Lightroom AND Lightroom-Classic & Ps.

The Photography Plan with 1Tb is for Lightroom (Cloud) only &Ps.

WHICH LIGHTROOM IS RIGHT FOR YOU

Buy Lightroom Classic 20Gb or 1tB & COMPARE

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
Participant
April 5, 2020

Thanks! That answers my question.