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rachelf6874307
rachelf6874307
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June 27, 2022
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Lightroom Installation on new mac laptop

  • June 27, 2022
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I need assistance and guidance in installing my already purchased Lightroom Version 5 (registration 2015) onto my new macbook pro. I already have it installed on my iMac, but my iMac is older and running slower now and I want to move Lightroom to my newer laptop. I have called Lightroom support and they directed me to post in here for assistance. 

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Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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June 27, 2022

If your new Mac uses any recent OS (eg. Catalina, Monterey) then you will not be able to install v6 (or v5).

Lightroom 6 End of Support

About 2019 Apple ended support for 32bit software (the v5 & 6 installers are 32bit).

You new Mac will require a subscription to the Photography Plan 20GB for Lightroom-Classic, and you get Photoshop , in the Plan. $9.99 PHOTOGRAPHY PLAN (USA) 

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
rachelf6874307
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June 27, 2022

Is there anyone that can assist with this? I checked and I have Lightroom 6.14. I tried downloading it directly from my account with Adobe and it said this downloader is no longer available. 

Jim Wilde
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Jim WildeCommunity Expert
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June 27, 2022

You can get the download of 6.14 from this link: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-6-end-of-support.html

 

Note that you will not be able to install 6.14 on a Mac which is running one of the Catalina, Big Sur or Monterey versions of MacOS, which I assume the new MBP will be using (the 6.14 install process has some 32-bit elements, which cannot be run on those operating system versions). However, if you use the Migration Assistant to port the already-installed version of 6.14 from your iMac to your new MBP, that should allow you to use it on your new system. If you ever need to do a re-install though, you'll not be able to do that on the MBP.

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