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tiagonmas2
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July 1, 2018
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Catalog too new

  • July 1, 2018
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Hi,

I had Adobe Creative cloud for one year. After the year subscription ended I bought Photoshop Lightroom 6 (Full version). Now I cannot open my catalogs that I used when using Lightroom Classic CC (Version 7.4) with the recently purchased Lightroom 6 (there is no version 7 with full version available for sale). When I try opening my catalog I get the "The lightroom catalog named […] cannot be opened because it is too new to be used by this version of lightroom."

I understand that catalog version 7 might be different from version 6, but doesn't adobe provide a way to use the catalogs between their latest versions of Creative Cloud and Full version products !? When is a Photoshop Lightroom version 7 coming out ? Is there a way to convert back the catalog to version 6?

I can still see the catalog when opening it with Lightroom CC, but since I no longer have a valid license Lightroom opens in limited functionality.

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Correct answer Per Berntsen

Lightroom 6 was the last standalone version (and it will not receive any more updates, 6.14 was the last), so there will be no version 7 standalone.

In other words, the latest version of Lightroom is only available by subscription.

And Lightroom catalogs are not backwards compatible, there is no way to open a Classic catalog in version 6.

If you still want to continue to use LR 6, click on All Photographs in the Catalog panel in the Classic Library. Edit: You also have to selct all the photos.

Then go to Metadata > Save metadata to file, which will save the metadata to xmp files for raw files, or to the file header for DNG, jpg, tiff and PSD files. This will save all your edits, but not flags, virtual copies, collection membership, Develop history or stacks.

You can then import the files in LR 6 (probably best to create a new catalog).

Your edits will be applied, but you won't see them in the History panel. And features you have used that don't exist in LR 6 will of course not be visible.

Frankly, I don't understand why Adobe is still selling LR 6 - it's a dead end, and there should be a warning when you buy it saying that this is a program that will never be updated, and that it's the end of standalone Lightroom.

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Per Berntsen
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Per BerntsenCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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July 1, 2018

Lightroom 6 was the last standalone version (and it will not receive any more updates, 6.14 was the last), so there will be no version 7 standalone.

In other words, the latest version of Lightroom is only available by subscription.

And Lightroom catalogs are not backwards compatible, there is no way to open a Classic catalog in version 6.

If you still want to continue to use LR 6, click on All Photographs in the Catalog panel in the Classic Library. Edit: You also have to selct all the photos.

Then go to Metadata > Save metadata to file, which will save the metadata to xmp files for raw files, or to the file header for DNG, jpg, tiff and PSD files. This will save all your edits, but not flags, virtual copies, collection membership, Develop history or stacks.

You can then import the files in LR 6 (probably best to create a new catalog).

Your edits will be applied, but you won't see them in the History panel. And features you have used that don't exist in LR 6 will of course not be visible.

Frankly, I don't understand why Adobe is still selling LR 6 - it's a dead end, and there should be a warning when you buy it saying that this is a program that will never be updated, and that it's the end of standalone Lightroom.

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