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I upgraded Lightroom classic and want my old version back

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November 2, 2023
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Hi. I 'upgraded' Lightroom Classic to Adobe Lightroom 7 and I cannot open Lightroom Classic. I want to return to my version of Lightroom Classic. How do I do this?

GoldingD

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Bring up your copy of the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App. Select the Apps Button, select All Apps, what is shown?

An example:

Up on the top right, the Account Button, clcik on it, select Adobe Account. what Plan do you have? Example:

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FirislanderAuthor

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Hi. This is what comes up.

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FirislanderAuthor

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The Lightroom Classic update failed, so try it again.

Hi. The update for Lightroom CC failed for the second time:

Now when I attempt to open Lightroom CC I get this error message:

When I look in the Applications Folder in the Finder I see this:

So is this saying that Lightroom CC was uninstalled today?

This confuses me because I did not knowingly uninstall the program.

When I click on Adobe Lightroom CC from the Finder window it opens Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Version 7.0. Is this the updated version of Lightroom I use everyday? It looks almost entirely new. I can’t even find how to create a Virtual Copy of an image. Did this feature get dropped?

If this is my new, updated version of Lightroom does Adobe provide any assistance on how to understand this version?

Again, thank you for any help with this.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Sounds like you clicked the wrong button. Lightroom 7 is not an upgrade of Lightroom Classic, it is an entirely different application. Both can be installed on your computer, so even if you installed Lightroom 7 by mistake, then you should still have Lightroom Classic (unless you uninstalled that).

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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FirislanderAuthor

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Hi. It sure as heck looks like an entirely different application. Lightroom Classic asked me before 'upgrading' to close Lightroom Classic and this I did.

While "Adobe Lightroom Classic" still showes in my application folder when I click it I get this Adobe Photoshop Lightroom thing.

All I want to do is get this thing off my computer and get back Lightroom Classic.

-Firislander.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

That is not Lightroom Classic, that is Lightroom. The 'CC' does not stand for Classic, but is a remnant from the time that all Creative Cloud apps had 'CC' in their name (Adobe tries to make things as confusing as possible).

-- Johan W. Elzenga

GoldingD

Legend

What Adobe Plan do you subscribe to?

The Lightroom Plan?
The Photography Plan?

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FirislanderAuthor

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Hi. I am running Mac OS Sonoma 14. I "upgraded" Lightroom Classic this morning and now all I can open is Adobe Lightroom and I hate it. Where did my Lightroom Classic go? Also, why is it so difficult to find the answer to what Adobe has done here? This seems a little nuts to change the entire program (which I am paying monthly for) and to give next to no easy explanation for what has taken place.

I would certainly like to return to my previous version of Lightroom Classic. Is this even possible?

Thank you for any help with this.

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dj_paige

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I would certainly like to return to my previous version of Lightroom Classic. Is this even possible?

Yes, but first try to find Lightroom Classic. Doesn't your Mac have some list of all installed applications? Check there, see if you can find it and open it from there. (I'm not a Mac person, but I thought Macs do have such a list)

I "upgraded" Lightroom Classic this morning ...

May I ask how you did this, in detail, step-by-step? What happened? Did it seem to work at the time, and then later you discovered the problem you described? Or were there apparently errors during installation?

Also I am curious as well about the question asked by @GoldingD

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FirislanderAuthor

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I was using Lightroom Classic this morning when the program popped open a message saying that there was an upgrade available. I upgraded and now when I click on "Adobe Lightroom CC" in my applications folder this program called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom opens and it appears to be an entirely differenct program. I can access my photos but everything else is changed. I can't even find a way to make a virtual copy of an image.

This program must work but I don't want to use it. I want my old version of Lightroom Classic back. I am frustrated by the fact that Adobe tells me that there is an upgrade available and then when I did upgrade I get an 'entirely' different program.

What can I do to get back my previous version of Lightroom Classic?

Thank you for any help with this.

-Firislander.

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Community Manager

Which Lightroom 7 did you have? Lightroom Desktop 7.0, released in October, or Lightroom Classic 7.0, released 6 years ago?

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

kglad

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in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.

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