

However, one day after the original announcement, Thom Hogarty (director of product management for all things photography at Adobe) posted some answers to questions about the new Lightroom versions. I don’t think this message needs further explanation. Lightroom 6 will remain for sale for an undetermined amount of time, but will no longer be updated with camera support or bug fixes after the end of 2017. There will not be a Lightroom 7 perpetual offering. Lightroom 6 is the last standalone version of Lightroom that can be purchased outside of a Creative Cloud membership. One of the key messages of the announcement was what is going to happen with Lightroom 6 (emphasis is mine): (actually one of my favorite bands) and Michael Stipe will forgive me for abusing one of their most famous song titles. This article analyzes why Adobe made this decision, and what the future looks like for existing Lightroom 6 users with a perpetual license. Both new Lightroom versions will be available only via a subscription. On OctoAdobe announced Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC, and at the same time the end of Lightroom 6. For a long time, users were speculating about Lightroom 7 and how Adobe would make it available to their users. Migration assistant does not need the physical external boot disk.Finally, we have clarity around what is going to happen with Lightroom. The above works also with a disk image of the above Mojave install. You can delete it from system preferences. On completion, after rebooting, I had Lr5 installed on the M1 Mac and also an extra user account (LR5Mojave) You don’t even need to login to that account. I indicated that I wanted to migrate from the external disk: I unchecked everything permitted but checked that I wanted to migrate Apps. I attached this disk to the M1 Mac mini, booted normally to Big Sur and I launched Migration assistance. I booted the intel Mac from this external disk (I set username: “LR5Mojave”) and installed only Lr5 (of course I had the last Lr 5.7.1 version Mac installer) On an intel Mac, I installed a fresh copy of MacOS Mojave on an external disk.

So here how I “installed” Lr 5 on an M1 Mac mini running Big Sur: Even if you have the old install files, the problem is that the installer will not be permitted to run as it’s 32bit. Mac only: As u/djaane correctly states, to install an old version of Lr 5/6 on a Mac which runs macOS Catalina or Big Sur you must use migration assistant.
