Using Lightroom on an Airplane with No WIFI login.

I was using Lightroom on a long return flight from Hawaii over the Pacific Ocean. The United Airlines flight had no internet access because their wifi service depends on the use of cell towers. With 5 hours to kill, I was editing my vacation photos in Lightroom Classic on my MacBook Pro.  

After a few hours, though, my MacBook Pro suddenly crashed (which is quite rare). When I rebooted it, Lightroom Classic would not let me operate the program anymore without connecting to the internet to verify my credentials. I had to either validate or quit the program. I could not connect to validate, so I could no longer edit my pictures during the flight.

I have been a paying subscriber for several years. Did my 30 or 90 day leash suddenly run out in the middle of this flight? Also, did it cause the crash in the first place? The program had accepted that I was a legtimate user for the few hours leading up to the crash. It is an illogical and poorly designed behavior to block me from using the program suddenly, with no way to continue my work until I arrived back home. Why can't Adobe store the credential on the local machine so we can use the software offline?

It is vexing that we are paying for a subsciption with no live help or attention to issues like these from Adobe. So, thanks to the community for listening. If other people have this issue, perhaps something will be done about it.

joeswickfoto  wrote I can't log in, and use Lightroom in the airplane.

Here's the problem. You have logged out at some point in time before you get on the airplane, and then you can't log in because logging in requires internet access. If you don't log out, you can use Lightroom for 30 days without needing internet access (and there's no need to do the pointless log out followed by log in)

I have the same issue. I will be using Lightroom and if my husband turns off the internet lightroom “quits unexpectedly“ and won’t reopen until I have internet connection again. I would like to be able to use it without internet.

Without more information we are guessing but I would imagine from your description that you are signing out when you close Lightroom.

Don't sign out when you finish using Lightroom unless you need to and it will work just fine. Just close Lightroom down as you woutdoor your browser for example and the next time Lightroom will start up normally.

I travel regularly on aircraft and don't have any problems  this method.

Lightroom will not open without an internet connection.

I never see any message of this kind. Lightroom just opens.

Do you get an error message which tells you an internet connection is required? Can you post a screenshot?

I don't use airlines much anymore.  But I regularly use Lightroom while traveling in an RV and don't have any trouble using it when off the grid. 

Did this happen once, twice or all the time?

Bill