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Is a download of Lightroom Classic 3.x still available?

Community Beginner ,
May 27, 2025 May 27, 2025

Hello,

 

I purchased a perpetual license of LIghtroom 3.6 more than 10 years ago.  I need to move it to a new Windows computer I recently purchased.  Is that still possible?

 

Is there a way for me to download version 3.x from Adobe as I still have the license key for it.

 

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.  

 

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LEGEND ,
May 27, 2025 May 27, 2025

I have no idea if this still works, but you can try it and let us all know!

https://prodesigntools.com/direct-download-links-for-lightroom-3-and-photoshop-elements-8.html

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LEGEND ,
May 27, 2025 May 27, 2025

The Prodesigntools.com links no longer work (they linked to locations at Adobe.com no longer available).

 

Adobe keeps deleting previous posts with links that work. I just tested these from the Internet Archive:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20170630221102/http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/lightroom/win/3.x/Lig...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170701004607/http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/lightroom/mac/3.x/Lig...

 

Note that the Internet Archive can be pretty slow with large downloads, so be patient. 

 

 

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Community Expert ,
May 28, 2025 May 28, 2025

In addition of @johnrellis post: It's recommended to save the downloaded files to a save location for a later use.

It isn't sure how long these downloads are available.

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 24H2 -- LR-Classic 14 - Photoshop 26 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 5 - Topaz PhotoAI 4
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Community Beginner ,
May 28, 2025 May 28, 2025

Great point.  I appreciate the kind help!

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Community Beginner ,
May 28, 2025 May 28, 2025

Thank you very much for this.  I will give these links a try. 

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Enthusiast ,
May 29, 2025 May 29, 2025
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Looks like WebArchive is not needed.
Try this direct URLs from Adobe servers (works for me):
https://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/lightroom/win/3.x/Lightroom_3_LS11_win_3_6.exe 

https://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/lightroom/mac/3.x/Lightroom_3_LS11_mac_3_6.dmg 

It should be much faster to download from here.

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