The last version of Adobe Lightroom (LR) with a perpetual license (i.e., not subscription-based) was version 6.14. On a Mac, installing LR 6.14 using the standard installer can only be done on macOS Mojave or earlier, as several components of the installer are 32-bit applications. While there are a few technical workarounds floating around to manually force an installation on pure 64-bit systems like macOS Catalina, they aren't flawless. Furthermore, even if you install LR on Mojave and then upgrade your macOS in place, reports show it will only function semi-reliably up to macOS Monterey. On macOS Sonoma and newer, the application crashes immediately upon launch. Even on natively supported systems like Mojave, the Map module and automatic Face Tagging no longer work, and RAW files from cameras released after 2017 are not supported. After staying on Mojave to keep LR officially supported, I finally decided to migrate my entire library to digiKam. Here is the documenta...
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