brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

Installation of the Classic update uninstalls the older version of LRCC. The first time you open the new app, it requires you to update the database (catalog file). The existing catalog is copied (preserving your current catalog) and the copy is updated to the new structure.

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

FWIW - Noticed right off my catalog of over 50,000 images reduced in size from 1.27 GB to 763 MB, and I notice that when I open Lightroom the image numbers in the folder pane populate faster than the previous version.

I will take every bit of disk space and any speed improvement I can get ;)

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, at 12:31:33 yesterday, from Laura Shoe. : )

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-491444-1.html

https://madmimi.com/p/938bfa?fe=1&pact=1642671-142141011-8374489371-46db00e9d5ca9f1e111663268f110aa0756685da

Yankeepapa6 Loc: New York City

Do you need/have to upgrade or this an option??

Dngallagher Loc: Wilmington De.

Upgrading is always optional, but of course at some point support for older versions is lost and with raw editors, new camera and lens support comes with the upgrade, as does better performance, OS compatibility, and other goodies, call for support and the first question is what version do you have or are you on the current version.

cthahn

For $9.99 a month you get Light room, Photoshop, and Bridge always updated and taking up no space in your computer. This combination will do more and has more features more than any other program. If you do not like it, do not subscribe to it. Quit your complaining.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

Just to let people know when I did my first upgrade to Classic got an error message that my Catalog from LR CC was not compatible. On my second try, it worked perfectly

RolandDieter

I know quite a few people who work for technology companies, including software companies. They are enamored with this stuff. Their perspective is on what they can design, not on how we will use it. We may not understand how they think the ability to do something is a bigger deal than its usefulness, but they don't understand why we don't think it's wonderful that these things can do all this stuff even if we don't care about using it. Some tech companies are interested in customer feedback, others just think we are behind the curve. A few weeks ago someone working for one of the tech giants told me they just did a survey of their customers to see what they like and dislike in their newest tech. He thought doing this was something new, innovative and never done before. They still think marketing is selling what they come up with rather than designing products around user interests.

lwerthe1mer Loc: Birmingham, Alabama

What's an amateur photographer with no interest and little understanding of or interest inthis web option to do? I'm going to stick with Classic as long as it works. If it stops working, I'll consider other options.

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

When the lay-person thinks of technological improvements, they don't consider the tiny pieces of improvements to things such as the database engine, file structures, and database interaction with the app. These are the things that make a lot of difference in a database application.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

lwerthe1mer Loc: Birmingham, Alabama

Not being enamored with the Cloud, I'll stick with what they now call Classic until it stops working or someone suggests a better approach.

Algernon Loc: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

For what it's worth -- I updated my laptop and my desktop (both Macs) yesterday (Oct 18) from LR CC to what they are calling LR Classic. Both updates occurred effortlessly and seamlessly. Easy peasy as my mother used to say.

Joecosentino Loc: Whitesboro, New York

I was beta testing the 2 Lightroom's and cc still has lots of missing parts. Classic will be here for a while, there are way to many people with thounds upon thousand of photos. I have 245,000 in my Lightroom library right now spread over several drives. There is no way I will buy cloud storage at the current prices. So maybe 5 r 10 years from now when a TB of storage is a few cents it might make sense. But with the current data caps and slow upload speeds a lot of people have. Going to the cloud for a working pro just is not practicable at this time.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

Yes I have a subscription to Netflix, its what I want. No I don't have a subscription to Adobe's Cloud services or even Microsoft's for Office. Seems to me that if you need Adobe's CC versus their standalone version, you'll use whatever suits your business/personal needs. I have been using LR6 and am always enticed to move to the Cloud, seems like daily. Since my requirements are not professional and primarily personal use only, I've consistently refused to move to a SaaS for LR and paying a monthly fee for basically 'minor' updates....doesn't make economic sense, TO ME. I would prefer to pay an appropriate fee for a 'Major' update every two-three years or so versus being Nickeled & Dimed to death, again My Opinion....however seems the future of many applications is subscriptions, its definitely a money maker. Just think when you have about 5-10 subscriptions/Applications you're paying for and as your requirements evolve, maybe some of those programs are used less & less and yet you're still paying for them, especially if you forget to cancel the ones you're not using, not that that would ever happen to me 😊. If it gets to the point that LR6 is no longer meeting my requirements, I'll move to another standalone software and there are many programs out there to purchase (just another learning curve to master).