A list of supported versions of Lightroom Classic is available here.”Īdobe’s earnings have been shattering expectations in recent years, sending the company’s stock soaring over 700% over the past half-decade, so the Creative Cloud subscription model has definitely been a savvy switch. “Installers, one-on-one technical support, security fixes, and bug fixes are not available for perpetual license versions. “The perpetual license version of Lightroom Classic is unsupported,” an Adobe spokesperson tells PetaPixel. We reached out to Adobe regarding this issue, and the company simply states that it no longer supports perpetual versions in any way. “It would be interesting to debate the definition of the word ‘Perpetual’ against the expiration of the license of the face detection dll.” “When I purchased (bought and paid for) LR6 it was for a Perpetual version,” writes forum user avpman. So while Lightroom v6 (and earlier major releases) continues to be functional, users could presumably see more and more features stop working over time as additional 3rd-party licenses expire, and this fact isn’t sitting well with users. Given that a workaround for these latest crashing issues is to roll back your computer’s system date, it does seem plausible that they’re due to 3rd-party licenses for technologies expiring after November 2020 and being enforced through a simple date check. Adobe’s official workaround suggestion for users is to copy the GPS coordinates from a photo’s Metadata and then do an online search with them, but it was discovered that the issue could be fixed by replacing Adobe’s expired Google Maps API key with your own personal key. The map module in Lightroom stopped working last year after Adobe’s API key apparently expired. “That is not Adobes’ fault, but I believe they do have a responsibility to their license owners… Not to change LR itself, but to help fix these external problems.” “Adobe has stopped supporting LR6 (which is OK) but the problem is that earlier the Google license for the Maps functionality expired (for which a workaround was found by users) and now the face-id license expired. “Problem is that Adobe licenses Face-Recognition from another company in the form of a DLL,” a forum member named TML59 writes. One explanation for these issues is the expiration of 3rd-party licenses Adobe used for features in the app.

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