[Leica] Photo-editing software recommendations?

[Frank Filippone]

The catalog is a collection of image (raw, jpg or other) plus the sidecar files (The editing commands) for each plus some form of file structure that  “ collects or links “ them together.  It may be different for each version of LR or not. What is important to remember is that the unaltered image files are always present.   If you want to use a different editing sw which required its own different catalog. You could make another catalog for that sw and use either or. 
What is most important is that the edits you made are all lost. Gone. You must start each image and redo ALL the work again. For each different SW you use 
It is my understanding that with LR, the monthly pay version that is resident on your computer (no cloud stuff) , that if you stop Paying, you will lose The ability to do further edits. the rest of the program functionality remains. I have little to no belief that this is fact or better said, that IF true , that Adobe , in the future, would not change the facts and make you cough up some money to ever see your images with edits again. 
Adobe is predatory. Expect them to act in a way that optimizes their revenue. Not your future once you leave their Fold
Last point. V6 has only so much functionality. . The CC versions have more. If you used some CC functionality in your edits that V6 does not offer, that edit will not work in the V6. Not today. Not tomorrow. 
My thought is that the catalog is unimportant. You want to protect the editing work you did. There is only one way to ensure that: play the Adobe game. $9.99 per month. Forever. 
But if you stop the monthly pay then change your mind (1 day? 5 years?) later, start paying again and you are off and running with no loss 
One last thought. Go look at ON1 as an editing program. The program claims to take in LR edits and convert them. Salvation or snake oil????? 
Does this answer the question?Frank
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 On Friday, December 20, 2019, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

almost—will CC convert my LR6 catalog to a version that I would later be unable to use in LR6 if I unsubscribed?

i’m over-engaged in this thing I guess—I just despise adobe—they are the neo-fascist trumps et al of the software world
I guess I just never forgave them for killing PageMaker

ric




> On Dec 20, 2019, at 9:10 PM, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> With each upgrade to the old version of perpetual LR, there was a / some change to the files/ structure/catalogs.  It was forward compatible.... LR6 would accept LR 4 images / catalogs and do the conversion. All edits were maintained. The opposite is not true. LR6 edits and file structures are not useable in LR4. But usually you would not go from V6 to V4. Am I answering your question?Frank Filippone


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