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January 25, 2024
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Downloading Adobe Ligthroom 6.14

  • January 25, 2024
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Hi, I paid for Adobe Ligthroom 6.14 and would like to download it. How to do it? This is a lifetime license so I should be able to download installer. How to contact customer support in that case? Virtual assistant is advising me method that doesnt work. My copy is registered in Adobe.

Correct answer FSt0p

You can download LR 6.14 from Web Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220716114731/https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-6-end-of-support.html

I don't know will you be able to activate or not, not sure how far Adobe went with ending support - activation servers may be down as well.

Do not bother checking links from Prodesigntools posted above - they do not host anything, just redirecting to Adobe servers, so it will not be there the same moment Adobe deleted it.

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FSt0pCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 26, 2024

You can download LR 6.14 from Web Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220716114731/https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-6-end-of-support.html

I don't know will you be able to activate or not, not sure how far Adobe went with ending support - activation servers may be down as well.

Do not bother checking links from Prodesigntools posted above - they do not host anything, just redirecting to Adobe servers, so it will not be there the same moment Adobe deleted it.

Participant
January 26, 2024

thanks a lot FSt0p, it went well: I was able to download it from a web archive, install and activate without any problems. I will backup that installer for sure.

Jim Wilde
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 26, 2024

You should still be able to download LR6.14 from this link: https://prodesigntools.com/adobe-lightroom-6-cc-direct-download-links.html#more-61627

Legend
January 26, 2024
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You should still be able to download LR6.14 from this link: https://prodesigntools.com/adobe-lightroom-6-cc-direct-download-links.html#more-61627


By @Jim Wilde

 

Obviously, you didn't try that link, which does not work any more to provide the download file. A few days ago, @johnrellis posted a link the Internet Archive, which at the time appeared to work. I suggest the OP search for it.

Community Expert
January 26, 2024

Also you should realize that even if you find the installer (it is available from some non-Adobe websites), it will not work on newer computers with newer versions of the operating system. On windows there are tricks to make it work, on newer Macs it simply won't install at all. 

Participant
January 26, 2024

understood but not my case, Ive upgraded mainly disk and ram

John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 25, 2024

Lightroom 6.14 support ended 12-31-23 so the download is no longer available
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-6-end-of-support.html

Participant
January 26, 2024

but how they can do that? it's breaking a license, license is a contract between me and Adobe. Im the owner of lifetime access. shouldnI escalate that to some Institutions representing customers? what if they did the same but just lets say year after I bought it (which is not my case, just an example)? Its like taking money for nothing.

Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 26, 2024

As is typical across the industry, the software license is for usage. Not support, not access. Just the right to use it. The license means you can use it forever, but it doesn’t extend to getting lifetime support. It is no different than buying a car or a refrigerator: You have the right to use it forever, but the companies are under no obligation to provide remedies forever. After a certain number of years they will stop stocking the spare parts.

 

If you look at the license for almost every commercial software title from almost any company, priced from $5 to $500 and up, most licenses have this type of wording (the quote below is from the current Adobe Terms of Service

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9.1 Unless stated in the Additional Terms, the Services and Software are provided “AS-IS.” To the maximum extent permitted by law, Adobe, its affiliates, and third-party providers (“Covered Parties”) disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties of non-infringement, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose. The Covered Parties make no commitments about the content within the Services. The Covered Parties further disclaim any warranty that (A) the Services and Software will meet your requirements or will be constantly available, uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; (B) the results obtained from the use of the Services and Software will be effective, accurate, or reliable; (C) the quality of the Services and Software will meet your expectations; or (D) any errors or defects in the Services and Software will be corrected.

 

The license is not broken because those are the terms agreed to by both parties, it says they do not warrant that “the software will be…constantly available.” You will see the same legal language in the terms for software by Apple, Microsoft, etc. And in the terms of competing software. Even some free software has those terms, so that a programmer working for free does not have to shoulder the burden of supporting a certain old version forever.

 

I am sympathetic to the problem, and I know what I am writing is not helpful in getting an installer, but…

 

…any time you get a disk or download of software that is important, keep an archived copy of it around. If it’s that important, always know how you are going to reinstall it if something goes wrong with the computer, where the installer is, etc. This is the only way to operate under terms like those, which are, as I said, part of almost every software you use. And it is especially important if the software is used for a business where any downtime comes at a high cost. Always have a way to recover.