Lightroom 6 Upgrade-housekeeping issue: I chose the 6.0 upgrade package and installed it last night. Sure enough 5.7 is still there along with the two icons on my desktop for...

AZNikon Loc: Mesa, AZ

I chose the 6.0 upgrade package and installed it last night. Sure enough 5.7 is still there along with the two icons on my desktop for Lightroom. I'm scared to uninstall 5.7 in case 6.0 will crumble in its wake. Should I just leave them both there? I try to maintain an orderly hard drive but it seems like Adobe has no such ambition. Any thoughts?

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

bobbennett wrote:

I chose the 6.0 upgrade package and installed it last night. Sure enough 5.7 is still there along with the two icons on my desktop for Lightroom. I'm scared to uninstall 5.7 in case 6.0 will crumble in its wake. Should I just leave them both there? I try to maintain an orderly hard drive but it seems like Adobe has no such ambition. Any thoughts?

Yes, you can leave 5.7 installed. Lightroom 6 creates a copy of your catalog and upgrades that new catalog for use with 6. Any images you import into Lightroom 6 will not be in your 5.7 catalog.

If you choose to uninstall Lightroom 5.7 you may need to manually erase your Lightroom 5.7 catalog to clean up disk space.

I upgraded to Lightroom CC from Lightroom 5.7 and once I confirmed all was well with Lightroom CC, I erased Lightroom 5.7.

GTinSoCal Loc: Palmdale, CA

I did the same thing, once I was confident that all was working well, out went 5.7 :-)

GT

Dngallagher wrote:

Yes, you can leave 5.7 installed. Lightroom 6 creates a copy of your catalog and upgrades that new catalog for use with 6. Any images you import into Lightroom 6 will not be in your 5.7 catalog.

If you choose to uninstall Lightroom 5.7 you may need to manually erase your Lightroom 5.7 catalog to clean up disk space.

I upgraded to Lightroom CC from Lightroom 5.7 and once I confirmed all was well with Lightroom CC, I erased Lightroom 5.7.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

Dngallagher wrote:

Yes, you can leave 5.7 installed. Lightroom 6 creates a copy of your catalog and upgrades that new catalog for use with 6. Any images you import into Lightroom 6 will not be in your 5.7 catalog.

If you choose to uninstall Lightroom 5.7 you may need to manually erase your Lightroom 5.7 catalog to clean up disk space.

I upgraded to Lightroom CC from Lightroom 5.7 and once I confirmed all was well with Lightroom CC, I erased Lightroom 5.7.

I did the same . In fact when I put in a new card to download photos LR5.7 opened not LR 6 Had to manually open 6 downloaded the photos the deleted 5.7

thephotoman Loc: Rochester, NY

If you haven't yet, try closing CC then reopening it. The 2 should merge into CCLR6. Also, if you have LR5.7 in your task bar, uno in it and it should go away.

AZNikon Loc: Mesa, AZ

Dngallagher wrote:

If you choose to uninstall Lightroom 5.7 you may need to manually erase your Lightroom 5.7 catalog to clean up disk space.

How would I know? Where would I look for a 5.7 catalog? Would I have to compare the 5.7 and the 6.0 catalog item by item? My preference is to uninstall 5.7. If Adobe did a better job and did not leave the old version on the hard drive it would eliminate this confusion. I don't want to lose any data but I don't need two versions of the same program on my hard drive.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

bobbennett wrote:

How would I know? Where would I look for a 5.7 catalog? Would I have to compare the 5.7 and the 6.0 catalog item by item? My preference is to uninstall 5.7. If Adobe did a better job and did not leave the old version on the hard drive it would eliminate this confusion. I don't want to lose any data but I don't need two versions of the same program on my hard drive.

You only need to look in Lightroom 5.7 and see what catalog is being used and where it is - after all you are in control of that, always have been.

Found in the CATALOG SETTINGS.

Not sure why you feel it is up to Adobe to uninstall your software and manage your disk drive.

Item by item comparison -all I did was to make sure my Lightroom had the same number of images that my old Lightroom 5.7 had - pretty easy, fast and simple.

The only reason to compare and test is to be safe -most likely everything came over fine and all is good with Lightroom 6, but for me, I would rather be safe and know for sure all is well - personal choice.

rhin0ski Loc: Boise, Idaho

Dngallagher wrote:

Yes, you can leave 5.7 installed. Lightroom 6 creates a copy of your catalog and upgrades that new catalog for use with 6. Any images you import into Lightroom 6 will not be in your 5.7 catalog.

If you choose to uninstall Lightroom 5.7 you may need to manually erase your Lightroom 5.7 catalog to clean up disk space.

I upgraded to Lightroom CC from Lightroom 5.7 and once I confirmed all was well with Lightroom CC, I erased Lightroom 5.7.

If lightroom 5.6 or 5.7 is already installed on your PC, will Adobe actually update it (on your PC) to LR 6?

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

rhin0ski wrote:

If lightroom 5.6 or 5.7 is already installed on your PC, will Adobe actually update it (on your PC) to LR 6?

No, Lightroom 6 or Lightroom CC is a separate product and it will install along side the older version (so to speak).

If you subscribe to the CC package you would end up with your current Lightroom version plus Lightroom CC.

Lightroom CC (6) would copy your Lightroom 5.7 catalog and upgrade it for Lightroom CC to use. You old Lightroom 5.7 would continue to use the old catalog and would not be compatible with the new catalog. It would be sort of pointless to maintain images in both systems.

rhin0ski Loc: Boise, Idaho

Dngallagher wrote:

No, Lightroom 6 or Lightroom CC is a separate prod... (show quote)

Got it! Thanks Don!

texaseve Loc: TX, NC and NH

Mine will sit side by side until I feel VERY confident about the whole thing.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

texaseve wrote:

Mine will sit side by side until I feel VERY confident about the whole thing.

:D I still have my Aperture library and Aperture sitting on my disk and I converted over a year ago! :)

AZNikon Loc: Mesa, AZ

Dngallagher wrote:

You only need to look in Lightroom 5.7 and see wha... (show quote)