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jeffu99343426
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June 13, 2019
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What Version is this? Lightroom Classic 6 Version 7.0

  • June 13, 2019
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I can't seem to figure out what I have.  I currently have 2 versions of LR on my mac, one says Lightroom Classic 6 Ver 7.0 and the other is Lightroom 6 ver 6.13.  If I check for updates it seems to want to update Classic Ver 7.0 to some 8.3.1 version, which I believe would turn it in to a perpetual license model. 

I can't seem to find any info online about Lightroom Classic 6 v. 7.0 - how did I end up with this version and how would I keep it but try out the perpetual lic one?  When I go to update there isn't an option to keep the existing version - at least nothing I'm seeing.

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    jeffu99343426
    jeffu99343426Author
    Participant
    June 13, 2019

    Thanks so much - I've been so confused.  And yes, I've been using it so my catalog was updated, so thanks for the info on how to move the catalog back.  I even had Adobe on chat and they didn't understand what was going on.  The bogus Version 7 keeps trying to update to the subscription version.

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 13, 2019

    Yes, Adobe has been less than helpful with this problem. They never even acknowledged it officially. Don't let that bogus version update itself. If you do decide to go to a Lightroom Classic subscription after all, then uninstall this version, get the subscription and install the correct version from the CC App. You can continue to use your upgraded catalog in that case.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    jeffu99343426
    jeffu99343426Author
    Participant
    June 13, 2019

    I also have this version -

    Lightroom version: 6.13 [ 1141928 ]

    License: Perpetual

    Operating system: Mac OS 10

    Version: 10.14 [5]

    Application architecture: x64

    Logical processor count: 8

    Processor speed: 3.1 GHz

    Built-in memory: 16,384.0 MB

    Real memory available to Lightroom: 16,384.0 MB

    Real memory used by Lightroom: 420.9 MB (2.5%)

    Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 3,048.8 MB

    Memory cache size: 45.4MB / 3,864.7MB (1.2%)

    Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

    Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

    Camera Raw virtual memory: 22MB / 8191MB (0%)

    Displays: 1) 3360x2100, 2) 2560x1440

    jeffu99343426
    jeffu99343426Author
    Participant
    June 13, 2019

    Lightroom Classic version: 7.0 [ 1142117 ]

    License: Perpetual

    Operating system: Mac OS 10

    Version: 10.14 [5]

    Application architecture: x64

    Logical processor count: 8

    Processor speed: 3.1 GHz

    Built-in memory: 16,384.0 MB

    Real memory available to Lightroom: 16,384.0 MB

    Real memory used by Lightroom: 904.5 MB (5.5%)

    Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 3,892.2 MB

    Memory cache size: 63.2MB

    Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

    Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

    Camera Raw virtual memory: 213MB / 8191MB (2%)

    Camera Raw real memory: 217MB / 16384MB (1%)

    Displays: 1) 3360x2100, 2) 2560x1440

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 13, 2019

    Yes, that is indeed the bogus 'Lightroom 7' version that was created by this buggy installer. If you have used it, it will have upgraded the catalog, so you won't be able to use that upgraded catalog with Lightroom 6.13, which is the correct version.

    The solution is to only use Lightroom 6.13, the version you have a license to use. In order not to lose all the work you may have done in "Lightroom 7", run it one more time. Select all the images that were imported after you updated to "Lightroom 7" and choose 'Metadata - Save Metadata to Files'. Then open Lightroom 6.13 and import these images. The edits and metadata should come over, except those edits that are new for Lightroom Classic (like Range Mask).

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    jeffu99343426
    jeffu99343426Author
    Participant
    June 13, 2019

    So how do I have something called LR Classic 6, ver 7.0?

    JP Hess
    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    June 13, 2019

    I suggest that you open that version and go to Help/about Lightroom. If you copied the first 10 lines of the information and post it here so that I can see the exact version of Lightroom that you have then I can advise you further.

    JP Hess
    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    June 13, 2019

    That final update for Lightroom 6 was 6.14. There will be no more updates for Lightroom 6, and it was the final perpetual version of Lightroom that will ever be released. Lightroom 7 was actually Lightroom Classic, which is subscription only, and is now at version 8.31.

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