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Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable

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Re: Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable

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Post by darren_ »

akersten wrote: post #2

Slight sidebar: it's so frustrating that Adobe made the new Lightroom some cloud based monstrosity. For photographers with serious workflows involving local disks, we're now relegated to "Lightroom Classic" which makes me feel like I'll be discontinued in N years from now. I hope they change course and drop this whole cloud thing, the yearly subscription model is bad enough.

They've also pulled off an incredibly hostile move for paid users of older Lightrooms - they're refusing to update it for 64bit-only OS X. The app itself is 64bit (in fact, the app itself is _only_ 64bit), but its licensing/installer components are not. So if you update OS X, it's not guaranteed that Lightroom (that you paid for) will run, or if it does, how long it will continue running for. This isn't some ancient software, this is the 2015 version of Lightroom.

This is 100% intentional to drive users to subscriptions.

Re: Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable

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Post by paulryanrogers »

FactolSarin wrote: post #10

Obviously this is a screw up on Adobe's part, but this is a good time to remind everyone that if you're not backing up your data, then it must not be very important to you. Back up your stuff! You never know when something unexpected will cause you to lose it!

And when you pay for a service that boasts online backups beware. They are just other people's computers.

Re: Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable

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Post by x87678r »

akersten wrote: post #2

Slight sidebar: it's so frustrating that Adobe made the new Lightroom some cloud based monstrosity. For photographers with serious workflows involving local disks, we're now relegated to "Lightroom Classic" which makes me feel like I'll be discontinued in N years from now. I hope they change course and drop this whole cloud thing, the yearly subscription model is bad enough.

Wow is that old fashioned local software without a subscription. I didn't know that was available, sounds perfect. I'm a guy that only wants to upgrade every 5 years and the subscriptions are offensively expensive.

Re: Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable

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Post by aosaigh »

> It seems the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone and iPad inadvertently wiped users’ photos and presets that were not already synced to the cloud.

“Not already synced to the cloud”. Whatever you think about Lightroom, this headline makes it sound much worse. Photos on the device that haven’t previously synced are lost, not all your photos in your library.

Re: Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable

#17

Post by testfoobar »

darren_ wrote: post #11
akersten wrote: post #2

Slight sidebar: it's so frustrating that Adobe made the new Lightroom some cloud based monstrosity. For photographers with serious workflows involving local disks, we're now relegated to "Lightroom Classic" which makes me feel like I'll be discontinued in N years from now. I hope they change course and drop this whole cloud thing, the yearly subscription model is bad enough.

They've also pulled off an incredibly hostile move for paid users of older Lightrooms - they're refusing to update it for 64bit-only OS X. The app itself is 64bit (in fact, the app itself is _only_ 64bit), but its licensing/installer components are not. So if you update OS X, it's not guaranteed that Lightroom (that you paid for) will run, or if it does, how long it will continue running for. This isn't some ancient…

This is why my main media computer is still Mojave.

Re: Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable

#18

Post by nhooyr »

old-gregg wrote: post #9
akersten wrote: post #2

Slight sidebar: it's so frustrating that Adobe made the new Lightroom some cloud based monstrosity. For photographers with serious workflows involving local disks, we're now relegated to "Lightroom Classic" which makes me feel like I'll be discontinued in N years from now. I hope they change course and drop this whole cloud thing, the yearly subscription model is bad enough.

Apparently they're doing pretty well. Don't expect them to change course. But this created the opportunity for others. I have migrated to Affinity photo + Capture One. No regrets.

Is Capture One significantly better than editing files just in folders?

Re: Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable

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Post by rosstex »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #12
FactolSarin wrote: post #10

Obviously this is a screw up on Adobe's part, but this is a good time to remind everyone that if you're not backing up your data, then it must not be very important to you. Back up your stuff! You never know when something unexpected will cause you to lose it!

And when you pay for a service that boasts online backups beware. They are just other people's computers.

Except for Backblaze, which is owned by magic wizards.
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