Download the lightroom6.txt file from this repository to your machine with Lightroom 6 installed.Installed & activated Lightroom 6 on MacOS before Catalina.It seems Rosetta 2 loses the activation after restarting the program.The app freezes from time to time on exit (no need to worry).The import and playback of videos is no longer possible.Although upgrading to macOS Catalina with an older version already installed on your computer may allow the app to function in some capacity, you will not be able to reinstall or activate the app after the macOS upgrade. Therefore, they cannot be installed and activated after upgrading to macOS Catalina. Older versions use 32-bit licensing components and installers. Why?Īdobe will not update its installers, so we will not be able to install Adobe Lightroom 6 on newer 64-bit-only MacOS versions.

So update now while you can do it at your leisure instead of possibly needing to do it later on when you are forced to.Instructions for backing up and restoring the Adobe Lightroom6 program on MacOS Catalina, Big Sur & Monterey on Intel and Apple M1 machines without using the 32-bit installer. And that won't work because one day you may get a new Mac and that will only run the current version of macOS and only support 64-bit apps. Your only other option is to stay behind in 2020 with Mojave forever. You can simply get the new version of Lightroom. It is time to move on from old apps that are still 32-bit. This change started 6+ years ago and Catalina came out more than 2 years ago. You can select the app in the Applications folder and use File, Get Info to see if it is 32-bit or 64-bit. If your 'legacy' version of Lightroom is so old that it is 32-bit, then no, it won't run in Catalina or beyond. (Earlier versions of macOS supported both 32-bit and 64-bit). Developers were told of this change a long time ago, and unless the developer had abandoned the app or procrastinated a great deal, they had 64-bit apps out long before Catalina.

Before that macOS still supported running older 32-bit apps. 'Legacy' can mean a lot of things.īasically, starting with Catalina you can only run apps compiled for 64-bit processors. Impossible for me to say without knowing the details.

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