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New life in old software lightroom 5.71
Jan 15, 2021 11:57:44   #
blackest Loc: Ireland
 
I recently bought an M1 Mac Mini and today i hooked up an old 2TB external which has an El Capitan install on it. In the apps folder was lightroom 5, so being curious I decided to open it and it crashed. On Mac applications are largely self contained what we know as an app is actually an application folder(if you right click you can get into it). so i decided to copy it to the M1 Mini's application folder. I ran it from there and this time it asked for a serial number or use as a 30 day free trial. I went for the trial and to my surprise it works. So after developing a few photos i decided i should register it and dug out the disk and serial number and with the serial no entered it was registered.

I've been lead to believe it's a 32bit app and stopped working several OS versions ago. Must be just the installer which is 32 bit and while its not native on the mac mini once translated with rosetta 2 it seems quite snappy.

So still no need for an adobe subscription :)

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Jan 15, 2021 12:19:59   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
The kool-aid drinkers will be along shortly to tell you how they'd spend more of your money.

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Jan 16, 2021 08:16:54   #
Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.
 
I did something similar with my current Windows machine. I have an old 5.0 (registered) copy and installed it. It upgraded to 5.7.1, requested serial number and it runs. However, it fails to acknowledge my Canon EOS M-3 CR2 RAW files. It worked just fine when I was using it three years ago.

Jack Olson

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Jan 16, 2021 08:40:16   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Wilderness Images wrote:
I did something similar with my current Windows machine. I have an old 5.0 (registered) copy and installed it. It upgraded to 5.7.1, requested serial number and it runs. However, it fails to acknowledge my Canon EOS M-3 CR2 RAW files. It worked just fine when I was using it three years ago.

Jack Olson


The standalone software will only support camera raw files that existed when support stopped. In the case of LR5, that will be cameras into December 2015.

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Jan 16, 2021 12:46:03   #
Vurnman Loc: Nevada City, California
 
CHG_CANON wrote:
The standalone software will only support camera raw files that existed when support stopped. In the case of LR5, that will be cameras into December 2015.


I'm using LR 6.0 which doesn't support my E-M1X RAW files so I convert them all to .dng which works well for me.

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Jan 16, 2021 16:22:52   #
Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.
 
CHG_CANON wrote:
The standalone software will only support camera raw files that existed when support stopped. In the case of LR5, that will be cameras into December 2015.


Hmmmm, just checked and I was using my old Canon EOS M at that time. Thanks for the info, might have to change the M3 files to .dng.

Jack

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Jan 16, 2021 16:34:21   #
rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona
 
Good for you. That's great news. I'll be looking forward to seeing what you're doing with this now that it's up and running.
--Bob
blackest wrote:
I recently bought an M1 Mac Mini and today i hooked up an old 2TB external which has an El Capitan install on it. In the apps folder was lightroom 5, so being curious I decided to open it and it crashed. On Mac applications are largely self contained what we know as an app is actually an application folder(if you right click you can get into it). so i decided to copy it to the M1 Mini's application folder. I ran it from there and this time it asked for a serial number or use as a 30 day free trial. I went for the trial and to my surprise it works. So after developing a few photos i decided i should register it and dug out the disk and serial number and with the serial no entered it was registered.

I've been lead to believe it's a 32bit app and stopped working several OS versions ago. Must be just the installer which is 32 bit and while its not native on the mac mini once translated with rosetta 2 it seems quite snappy.

So still no need for an adobe subscription :)
I recently bought an M1 Mac Mini and today i hooke... (show quote)

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Jan 16, 2021 16:49:37   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
blackest wrote:
I recently bought an M1 Mac Mini and today i hooked up an old 2TB external which has an El Capitan install on it. In the apps folder was lightroom 5, so being curious I decided to open it and it crashed. On Mac applications are largely self contained what we know as an app is actually an application folder(if you right click you can get into it). so i decided to copy it to the M1 Mini's application folder. I ran it from there and this time it asked for a serial number or use as a 30 day free trial. I went for the trial and to my surprise it works. So after developing a few photos i decided i should register it and dug out the disk and serial number and with the serial no entered it was registered.

I've been lead to believe it's a 32bit app and stopped working several OS versions ago. Must be just the installer which is 32 bit and while its not native on the mac mini once translated with rosetta 2 it seems quite snappy.

So still no need for an adobe subscription :)
I recently bought an M1 Mac Mini and today i hooke... (show quote)


Good to know that sort of thing works! Yes, Adobe installers were 32-bit, but most of their apps have been 64-bit once installed. LR 5.71 is a bit long in the teeth, but if it supports your camera, that's not an issue.

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Jan 16, 2021 16:51:23   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
blackest wrote:
I recently bought an M1 Mac Mini and today i hooked up an old 2TB external which has an El Capitan install on it. In the apps folder was lightroom 5, so being curious I decided to open it and it crashed. On Mac applications are largely self contained what we know as an app is actually an application folder(if you right click you can get into it). so i decided to copy it to the M1 Mini's application folder. I ran it from there and this time it asked for a serial number or use as a 30 day free trial. I went for the trial and to my surprise it works. So after developing a few photos i decided i should register it and dug out the disk and serial number and with the serial no entered it was registered.

I've been lead to believe it's a 32bit app and stopped working several OS versions ago. Must be just the installer which is 32 bit and while its not native on the mac mini once translated with rosetta 2 it seems quite snappy.

So still no need for an adobe subscription :)
I recently bought an M1 Mac Mini and today i hooke... (show quote)


On another note, how do you like the M1 Mini?

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Jan 16, 2021 16:54:20   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Wilderness Images wrote:
Hmmmm, just checked and I was using my old Canon EOS M at that time. Thanks for the info, might have to change the M3 files to .dng.

Jack


The DNG converter runs in batch and is rather quick as all it's doing is just writing some new wrapper data around the read-only image data in the original RAW file / format. The converter is free. Test the various DNG version options to see if there's a difference in the target DNG version for how it works in your LR version.

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Jan 16, 2021 18:37:18   #
Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.
 
CHG_CANON wrote:
The DNG converter runs in batch and is rather quick as all it's doing is just writing some new wrapper data around the read-only image data in the original RAW file / format. The converter is free. Test the various DNG version options to see if there's a difference in the target DNG version for how it works in your LR version.


Thanks again CHG_CANON, about that same time, I had a Samsung NX500 that wasn't recognized and had to make the conversion. Just another step to contend with.

Jack

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