

I came across the post above but could not get it to work. I was so fed up on the tenth time, I immediately quit Lightroom and tried to search the internet for answers. My problem was that I had been told by Lightroom about 10 times to enter my serial number. So if anyone is having trouble with the instructions here, here is what happened to me and how I got past it. While it is pretty exhaustive, at first there was a major problem that baffled me. But given Adobe's tactics, instead of the cloud version I'll be seriously looking at alternatives like Darktable rather than giving them more money.īottom line, make sure you hang on to your Lightroom Classic install file.I had a problem with that post. I had considered a few times going to the subscription but just can't justify it with the little photography I'm doing now, but that may change. I get the desire for a company to move from perpetual license to subscription, but it is pretty low to remove the ability to download something you've bought a perpetual license for. Through pure luck, the Downloads folder on OneDrive still had the install file for Lightroom 5.7 and it installed fine. I found this really annoying since it was originally an electronic copy I bought directly from Adobe so there is no media here that I would have had. I just had to rebuild my Surface from scratch and when I went to install Lightroom, I logged intoĪdobe and found that they no longer will let you download it even though they show my serial numbers and such. In the past I've reloaded it a few times when changing computers and such. It does what I need and don't need another subscription at this point. I have and use Lightroom Classic V5 from years ago.

I am sure this has been discussed before but didn't see in a quick search so adding here as a reminder.
