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tm255
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August 18, 2022
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Basic Lightroom Classic Mac OS installation question

  • August 18, 2022
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I want to be sure that I am doing this correctly as I don't want to lose my LR catalog.  Thanks in advance for any help!

I texted and talked to Adobe Support and I did not understand their response.

I am running PS CS5 and LR 6.0 on a Mac OS 10.13.6.  I want to change to the subscription LR Classic with Photoshop.  My old LR/PS software will not run on OS newer than 10.13.6 which has been holding me back as far as OS updates, so the other piece of this puzzle is upgrading to the newest Mac OS.

My question is, what steps should I follow and in what order?  The Adobe rep said to update the OS first, and while that may be correct it seems kind of counterintuitive as I would think that install of the new software, either over the old or after deleting the old, would come first.  It also seems as though some kind of "safety" backup of the LR catalog might be a good idea but the rep said that is not necessary.

Anyway, just hoping to get some guidance to minimize my chances of disaster!  Thanks!

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Correct answer dj_paige

Just a follow up ...... Upgraded to OS Monterey, insatlled PS and LRC.  Unfortunately am gettting the message that there is not access to folders, and the fix via System Prefererences does not work.

 

Will address in another post.  Thanks again for the installation help here!


https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/quick-tips-how-to-give-full-disk-access-to-lightroom-classic-on-macos/td-p/12913413

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dj_paige
dj_paige
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August 18, 2022

The current Lightroom Classic runs on OSX 10.15 or later. So you cannot install it on Mac OS 10.13.6. You have to install it after you upgrade the operating system.

 

Please before you go ahead and do this, make sure you have backups of your catalog file and all photos (and any presets) on a different disk (which you should be doing on a regular basis anyway).

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tm255Author
Inspiring
August 18, 2022

Thank you for taking the time to answer!

 

I have an external HD making Time Machine backups, and I also have Backblaze making cloud backups, so I have not been periodically backing up catalog/photos/presets on a separate external HD.  I think that it makes sense to do such backup before I do the upgrade.

 

I have an extra external HD that I can use for this -- can you tell me, or point me to a source, of exactly how to do the backup of the catalog/photos/presets?

dj_paige
dj_paige
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August 18, 2022
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I have an extra external HD that I can use for this -- can you tell me, or point me to a source, of exactly how to do the backup of the catalog/photos/presets?


By @tm255

 

You just use your operating system to copy the files to the external HD ... but if you have cloud backups and Time Machine backups, I would not bother making a backup on the external HD because you already have two forms of protection.

kglad
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August 18, 2022

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