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

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Post by tallanvor »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #338
Brajeshwar wrote: post #98

In another story, I needed Lightroom for about a week to do some photo work. I started with their subscription for the month and I wanted to let go if I'm done in the first month. While trying to cancel my subscription, I realize I can only do that after paying for the remaining 11 months (rough calculation). With no other option, I paid my penalty and left Adobe for good. I have deleted my 15+ year old Adobe account…

An acquaintance of mine introduced his friend in India, who was supposedly working for a contractor whose job is to harass companies pirating Adobe products into buying a contract ; He proudly claimed that "he reported his Ex-employer to Adobe due to bad blood and harassed them to pay several several lakh rupees". I've heard earlier that such agencies work for Microsoft, Adobe in India but that was the first time I'v…

The BSA is an example of an organization that takes reports of companies pirating software and trying to work with them to get them to start using the software legally. It's legal to do this and is often cheaper for both sides as lawsuits are expensive.

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

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Post by ricardobeat »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #98

In another story, I needed Lightroom for about a week to do some photo work. I started with their subscription for the month and I wanted to let go if I'm done in the first month. While trying to cancel my subscription, I realize I can only do that after paying for the remaining 11 months (rough calculation). With no other option, I paid my penalty and left Adobe for good. I have deleted my 15+ year old Adobe account…

What do you use for managing your photo archive?

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

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Post by hnrodey »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #116
Brajeshwar wrote: post #98

In another story, I needed Lightroom for about a week to do some photo work. I started with their subscription for the month and I wanted to let go if I'm done in the first month. While trying to cancel my subscription, I realize I can only do that after paying for the remaining 11 months (rough calculation). With no other option, I paid my penalty and left Adobe for good. I have deleted my 15+ year old Adobe account…

I recently signed up for adobe CC to test out premiere for some video editing work (side note, Final Cut is better) and instead of inputting a real card I used a privacy.com one. When I decided I didn't want it, I just disabled the privacy card. I only have to deal with a few annoying emails from adobe. I didn't even bother trying to cancel. Reading your comment makes me realize how smart that was.

Recently did the exact thing with a Privacy card and SiriusXM (fuck that company). I have a plot twist tho, SiriusXM continued to extend my service after my trial period ended and payment declined then tried to make me pay $10. Turns out, I still had to manually jump through all of the hoops of manually cancelling my SiriusXM account and the $10 is the pro-rated bill between the end of my trial and when finally cancelled.

Seriously, fuck that company.

edit: seems I have a fancy for run on sentences. sorry

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

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Post by berdario »

est31 wrote: post #232
kwanbix wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you contribute by using free software? You contribute if you give something, mainly coding or money.

You already contribute by growing the community. Software benefits from network effects. E.g. a large hurdle for Libreoffice adoption is the fact that many documents are in the MS proprietary formats. Messengers like Signal or Telegram are in the same boat. As the community grows, the chance increases for someone to contribute by coding or money, or hiring the lead devs for support contracts. It doesn't have to be yo…

Those effects are vastly overstated.

https://lwn.net/Articles/825602/

If you participate in the community, you can be a boon or you can also be a drag (if you just use the software in the privacy of your home, report problems and ask questions, without every giving back in any way, not even by answering other folks' questions).

If you want your open source developers to eat, they need cold hard cash.

From the lwn link above:

> Words fail me to express how beyond-utterly-broken the existing TDF / desktop model is for the ecosystem around selling Desktop LibreOffice.

> Collabora - despite C'bra still putting a lot of work into LibreOffice Desktop, having an outstanding support capability, doing lots of marketing, being the largest code contributor to LibreOffice, and having lots of existing happy customers / references for desktop LibreOffice, ... etc. etc.

> We have not had -one- -single- -new- Collabora Office customer since 2018 - zero.

(for context: the former LibreOffice development team of SUSE joined Collabora in 2013, so they're not a scrappy new startup completely disjointed from Libreoffice)

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

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

tallanvor wrote: post #351
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An acquaintance of mine introduced his friend in India, who was supposedly working for a contractor whose job is to harass companies pirating Adobe products into buying a contract ; He proudly claimed that "he reported his Ex-employer to Adobe due to bad blood and harassed them to pay several several lakh rupees". I've heard earlier that such agencies work for Microsoft, Adobe in India but that was the first time I'v…

The BSA is an example of an organization that takes reports of companies pirating software and trying to work with them to get them to start using the software legally. It's legal to do this and is often cheaper for both sides as lawsuits are expensive.

Hypothetically, then it makes huge business incentive for these companies to work with hackers/crackers to embed malware in their crack for homing in on the pirates. Since, there wasn't any intrusion involved, I doubt whether it would be considered hacking legally? Even if it did, does the protections apply to cracks used for pirating? I bet there aren't any legal precedence for such situations in several countries where such organizations operate.

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

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Post by antigirl »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #98

In another story, I needed Lightroom for about a week to do some photo work. I started with their subscription for the month and I wanted to let go if I'm done in the first month. While trying to cancel my subscription, I realize I can only do that after paying for the remaining 11 months (rough calculation). With no other option, I paid my penalty and left Adobe for good. I have deleted my 15+ year old Adobe account…

Isn’t the trial free? It says clearly the subscription plan is for 12 months.

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

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Post by swebs »

johnchristopher wrote: post #322
Aachen wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that legal in the USA? Entering into a purchase agreement ("koopovereenkomst", not sure if I'm translating the jargon correctly) and then just not paying? Because that's certainly not legal where I live. I understand that the odds of repercussions are small and that there are no damages on Adobe's side since you haven't physically taken their goods so it would probably have to be taken up by the public prosecutor…

I recently wanted to get some practical knowledge with cloud storage buckets and my first choice was Azure (for no other reasons that name was shrouded with mystery). Free trial, etc. I give my phone number (something like "for legal reasons"). Then it asks for my CC. I already hate it because it's highly dubious they need my CC number for a free trial since it's not needed to deliver the product. Fine, I give it. Th…

I would never give Microsoft my credit card number after hearing all the horror stories of people trying to cancel Xbox Live.

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

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Post by kweks »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #116
Brajeshwar wrote: post #98

In another story, I needed Lightroom for about a week to do some photo work. I started with their subscription for the month and I wanted to let go if I'm done in the first month. While trying to cancel my subscription, I realize I can only do that after paying for the remaining 11 months (rough calculation). With no other option, I paid my penalty and left Adobe for good. I have deleted my 15+ year old Adobe account…

I recently signed up for adobe CC to test out premiere for some video editing work (side note, Final Cut is better) and instead of inputting a real card I used a privacy.com one. When I decided I didn't want it, I just disabled the privacy card. I only have to deal with a few annoying emails from adobe. I didn't even bother trying to cancel. Reading your comment makes me realize how smart that was.

Does anyone know of any EU / international alternative to Privacy.com?

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

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Post by qubex »

kweks wrote: post #358
AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently signed up for adobe CC to test out premiere for some video editing work (side note, Final Cut is better) and instead of inputting a real card I used a privacy.com one. When I decided I didn't want it, I just disabled the privacy card. I only have to deal with a few annoying emails from adobe. I didn't even bother trying to cancel. Reading your comment makes me realize how smart that was.

Does anyone know of any EU / international alternative to Privacy.com?

I know Revolut don’t have the best reputation et al, but one handy feature is generating one-time ‘virtual’ credit cards for use online. Use it once and it deducts from your balance and is ‘burnt’.

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

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Post by swebs »

akerro wrote: post #303
userbinator wrote: post #52

When things like this happen, is it any wonder an increasing number of users are viewing any sort of "updates" with extreme apprehension? "It was working fine just before, and now I've lost everything. Why should I have even updated!?!?" I still remember when the general advice was "do not upgrade/change what works, unless you need something in a later version", which then changed to "updates are recommended", follow…

> "updates are recommended", followed by "updates are strongly recommended", and more recently, "updates are mandatory". This is 5 years old, today we are doing: Updates happen in background automatically without user knowing and sometimes when autoupdated software is being used at the time, it crashes when new action is performed and all not saved user data is lost. Move fast, break things!

That's my experience every time Firefox updates these days through unattended-upgrades. The sad thing is that it handled it just fine without crashing up until a few years ago.
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