[Leica] Photo-editing software recommendations?

[John McMaster]

Just tried with my up to date catalog (LR Classic 9.1) as my workstation has old and new software.  I did not see LR 6 (maybe got updated) but still have LR 5.7.1 - on restarting with current catalog I get:

'The Lightroom catalog named '*****' cannot be opened because it is too new to be used by this version of Lightroom.  Would you like to select a different catalog?'

When I choose different catalog I can see LR 2, 3 ,4 and 5 catalogs to choose from...

I then tried Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC 2015 (v2015.14 with camera raw 10.1) and it can only open the earlier catalogs (same error as above) plus a later one, but not the current one.

So looks like no going back

john

-----Original Message-----

So, here is my take on this question.  When my father-in-law bought the 
subscription, I installed it and converted  his LR6 catalog.  But I seem 
to  remember that the original LR6 catalog was still there, so the 
conversion made a new catalog.  I never did test his old LR6 catalog to 
see if it was still functional with LR6 as he removed it.  He does not 
like clutter.

Maybe someone else can see if their old LR6 catalog is still on their 
system after converting ands if they still have LR6 installed, test it 
to see if it is still functional.  I am headed to his house now, so if 
he still has the LR6 catalog I will copy it over to my laptop and see if 
it still works.

Aram

On 12/20/2019 5:59 PM, CartersXRd wrote:
> are we sure about that? I thought previous updates converted the catalogs to a newer version that was not backward compatible? does CC NOT do that?
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>> On Dec 20, 2019, at 8:39 PM, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> As long  as you did your edits with the same or previous perpetual versions, you will be able to view,edit, print etc with your edited files using the perpetual version
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