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Tue, May 22, 2018 3:56 AM
Lightroom Classic: Presets not working/ perpetual license glitch
Hello, let me preface this by saying that if this has already been discussed I do apologize. I bought a hard copy of Lightroom 6 about a year and half ago and recently when Adobe released the latest update, it allowed me to update to Lightroom 7 even though I don't have a creative cloud subscription. Is there a way to reverse this and get my copy of LR6 back? I checked my system info and it says I have a perpetual license so I know something is going on within the software itself. If someone could help me out that would be greatly appreciated as I haven't been able to use my presets since this happened.
This is what it says whenever I look up the system info:

This is what it says whenever I look up the system info:
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1. Buy a LR Classic 7 subscription, uninstall your current LR, and reinstall LR Classic using the Creative Cloud Desktop app.
2. Revert back to LR 6, saving most of your work:
a. In your current LR, select all your photos and do Metadata > Save Metadata To File.
b. Uninstall the current LR and download LR 6 from https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/lightroom-downloads.html.
c. When you start LR 6, it won't be able to open your current (upgraded to LR 7) catalog. If it doesn't find your old LR 6 catalog (that existed before you updated to LR 7), do File > Open Catalog and navigate to wherever you store your LR catalogs to find and open the LR 6 catalog.
d. Do FIle > Import to import all the photos you added to your LR 7 catalog after you upgraded. Your edits and metadata changes should still be there. But any collections, published collections, stacks, or books you made in LR 7 will be lost.
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