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Hi.Computer died.backups saved.Computer repaired. Can't reinstall Lightroom 5. Data visible.
Can anybody help?
Baffled.
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What operating system and version NUMBER? Why can't you install Lightroom 5? What happens? What is the exact error message? Please write in actual sentences from now, that would be helpful.
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If you have the Lightroom 5 catalog, you should be able to see all the photos, except that you said you can't install Lightroom 5. It's not clear from your description if the problem is that you can't install LR 5, or when you do install LR 5 you don't see all the photos, or something else. What is the exact problem preventing you from seeing the photos in LR 5?
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Can't install Lightroom 5
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Do you get any error messages? If yes, post the exact messages.
If you logged in as an Administrator or an user with admin rights during you try to install Lightroom.
Check the Windows event logs to get more infos about the problem
How to use Event Viewer on Windows 10 | Windows Central
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My system is not the new cloud based.No longer supported by Adobe,but it's the one that I use.
It's a wonderful thing,but ,now that it's not working,I must admit that I'm struggling with the technology.
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My system is not the new cloud based.No longer supported by Adobe,but it's the one that I use.
It's a wonderful thing,but ,now that it's not working,I must admit that I'm struggling with the technology.
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Two people have asked you to provide the exact error message. You have not done so, and its hard to help you further when we don't get information we need.
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First off it is clear we are talking the perpetual versions of Lightroom. Lightroom Desktop vs Lightroom Classic is not the issue.
Moving on
Previous versions of Lightroom cannot use catalogs made with newer upgrades. That is upgrade, not update.
So Lr v4 cannot open a Lr v5 catalog.
The other way around works, although a upgrade of the catalog will occur. That is Lr v5 can open a Lr v4 catalog, where upon it will copy and upgrade that catalog. Name of new catalog will be slightly different, I forget how back in thise days..