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wlotus
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November 28, 2018
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Future Lightroom 6 Compatibility with Mac OS X Mohave

  • November 28, 2018
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Lr 6.14 just gave me a pop up saying it will not be compatible with future versions of Mac OS X. (I am currently running Mohave 10.14.1.) I paid for Lr6 and expect to be able to continue using it. When will an update be available?

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Correct answer Jao vdL

The update has been available for a long time. It is Lightroom Classic 7 and 8. Adobe announced some time ago that Lightroom 6 will not be updated further. You can probably only continue using it by not upgrading your OS when the next version of Mac OS X comes out but it is not clear as it depends on what Apple will do with their next OS.

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lorneb54919236
lorneb54919236
Participant
October 12, 2019

Adobe and Apple do not care what customers think of them as long as there is a suckker born as often as we are.  They just use us for only their benefit because they can.  Hopefully someday a new kid with a better approach will arive to disrupt them both.

Agwii
Agwii
Participant
May 5, 2019

Hola a todos.

He leído el hilo completo de respuestas.

También yo me siento frustrado.

Hace aproximadamente unos seis meses he comprado la licencia de Lightroom 6 en un soporte de disco.

La he comprado en B&H en Nueva York.

Lo hice pensando en que, si bien no me beneficiaría de las nuevas herramientas en las futuras actualizciones, de todas maneras tendría al programa funcionando aunque Apple actualizara su sistema operativo.

Nunca vi una advertencia clara de Adobe diciendo a sus clientes "NO COMPRE LIGTHROOM 6 PUESTO QUE EN BREVE DEJARÁ DE FUNCIONAR".

O "TENGA CUIDADO CON ACTUALIZAR SU SISTEMA OPERATIVO, SI COMPRA LIGTHROOM 6 ESTARÁ CONDENADO A VIVIR EN EL PALEOLÍTICO".

La política de Adobe al respecto fue un desastre. Yo la llamaría de un enorme egoísmo.

Para mi, la imagen de Adobe como empresame me ha quedado muy desmerecida. Ahora la veo como feroz y voraz. Me da la imagen de que lo que cuenta es sólo el dinero.

En mi caso, para colmo vivo en Uruguay y Adobe no tiene políticas comerciales com mi pais que me permitan la suscripción.

Yo no soy un profesional de la fotografía sino un entusiasta de la misma.

De aquí en más me cuidaré mucho de Adobe.

Just Shoot Me
Just Shoot Me
Legend
May 5, 2019

Agwii  wrote

I never saw a clear warning from Adobe telling its customers "DON'T BUY LIGTHROOM 6 SINCE IT WILL SOON STOP WORKING."

OR "BE CAREFUL TO UPGRADE YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM, IF YOU BUY LIGTHROOM 6 YOU WILL BE CONDEMNED TO LIVE IN THE PALEOLITHIC."

It is not Adobe that did this. It is Apple and YOU. If you had never updated your OS LR 6 would still be working.

And you never saw Clear warning from Apple that upgrading the OS would make some software obsolete. This is has been the case for years with Apple.

If you bought LR 6 Six Months ago it was Out Of Date, Been Superseded, for at least 1.5 years.

Agwii
Agwii
Participant
May 6, 2019

If you bought LR 6 Six Months ago it was Out Of Date, Been Superseded, for at least 1.5 years.

No estoy de acuerdo. Si tu tienes una licencia vendiéndose en el mercado y ese es tu producto, entoces eres responsable por ella. La empresa es responsabe por ella. Adobe gana dinero con ella.

Además, una licencia perpetua no puede ser reemplazada por una suscripción. Son dos productos distintos.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 28, 2018

wlotus  wrote

Lr 6.14 just gave me a pop up saying it will not be compatible with future versions of Mac OS X. (I am currently running Mohave 10.14.1.) I paid for Lr6 and expect to be able to continue using it. When will an update be available?

You can expect that, but it is an unrealistic expectation to think you will get an update. Lightroom 6 is no longer supported, and a change from 32 bits to 64 bits is more than an ‘update’. You can continue to use Lightroom 6 for a very long time if you want to however. Just don’t upgrade to the next version of MacOS X when that comes out. Nobody forces you to do that.

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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    wlotusAuthor
    Participant
    November 28, 2018

    I understand software life cycles. I was hoping Adobe would not push aside those of us who are not able to afford or are not interested in a subscription, especially since we paid for the software to begin with. It is disappointing to see their business model does not have room for loyal customers like me. I have already begun the transition to Corel instead.

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 28, 2018

    Adobe does not push you in any direction. Apple does (or will next year) if you let it do that.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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    wlotusAuthor
    Participant
    November 28, 2018

    Lightroom Classic is not a true update to Lr6, as that requires a subscription. I do not have the means to pay for a subscription and need a standalone version of Lr that will continue to be compatible with MacOS X.

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      Community Expert
      Jao vdLCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 28, 2018

      It will never come. LR 6 is the end of the road for perpetual license. Many disagree with that decision but Adobe has made it and is highly unlikely to move back as it is enormously successful for them.

      Your only way to stick with LR 6 is to not upgrade your OS when the successor to Mojave comes out next year. That will likely tie you over a few years until Apple will stop issuing security updates to Mojave which they will do after a few major revisions of the OS. This is the reality of software.

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      bhousto90
      Legend
      November 28, 2018

      And in two days the Map Module will be discontinued for LR6.x regardless of your OS type/version :

      Map is no longer supported in this version of Lightroom

      ...I expect a flurry of forum posts even with the advance notice from Adobe.

      ManiacJoe
      ManiacJoe
      Inspiring
      November 28, 2018

      LR 6.x is already two major versions old, the current version is 8.0.

      There is no more updates to the 6.x version since 7.0 was released. That is the way software works.

      Very older versions of software often have problems running on updated versions of operating systems since the OS makers eventually break some of the backwards compatibility. This has always been the case for all OS makers.

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      Community Expert
      Jao vdLCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      November 28, 2018

      The update has been available for a long time. It is Lightroom Classic 7 and 8. Adobe announced some time ago that Lightroom 6 will not be updated further. You can probably only continue using it by not upgrading your OS when the next version of Mac OS X comes out but it is not clear as it depends on what Apple will do with their next OS.

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