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Teri Bloom
Inspiring
December 14, 2016
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Will LR v. 6 work with Mac OS El Capitan, or only Sierra?

  • December 14, 2016
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I'm having terrible crashes since I upgraded to LR v. 6.7 and 6.8, since I've upgraded to Mac OS  El Capitain.

I'm thinking of going back to LR v.6 as I had no problems while on Mac OS Sierra.

Questions are: 

1)  Will LR v. 6 work also with El Capitain, or I have to go back to Mac Sierra before re-installing LR v. 6.

2)  Does anyone have the link explaining how to un-install LR v. 6.8, and then how to re-install LR v.6?

3)  Would my current catalog have any problems if I back-track to an earlier version of LR?

thanks so much, Teri

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    Correct answer 99jon

    thanks but I need to explain more

    For LR 3  and 4 -- there are shared file list, plist and lockfile

    In additional LR 4 has another additional plist and lock file

    LR 6 only has lock file and plist -- no shared file plist

    Should LR 6 have the shared file list and the lock file -- which is doesn't?

    Or leave everything for previous versions as directed and only delete plist?

    It appears I'm missing 2 prefs for LR 6 based on what I'm seeing from v. 3 and 4.

    again thanks SO much for your help :-)


    LR creates saved prefs each time you quit the application. So you don’t need to worry about older versions or the shared files plist. Next time you quit LR the prefs will be re-created for your latest catalog.

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    99jon
    99jon
    Legend
    December 14, 2016

    Sierra is the latest Mac OS. Are you rolling back to El capitan?

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    Teri BloomAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 14, 2016

    Yes -- sorry about this -- I'm on Mac. 10.12.1, so that is Sierra --

    Had no problems with El Capitan and LR 6, so am thinking about back-tracking as the crashes are constant.

    thanks Jon!

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    Teri BloomAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 14, 2016

    Just delete the plist file for LR6. Don't touch the Lock file. That simply shows LR is runnung.


    thanks but I need to explain more

    For LR 3  and 4 -- there are shared file list, plist and lockfile

    In additional LR 4 has another additional plist and lock file

    LR 6 only has lock file and plist -- no shared file plist

    Should LR 6 have the shared file list and the lock file -- which is doesn't?

    Or leave everything for previous versions as directed and only delete plist?

    It appears I'm missing 2 prefs for LR 6 based on what I'm seeing from v. 3 and 4.

    again thanks SO much for your help :-)

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