Lightroom gotcha

[JonathanRyan]

I have a laptop that I pretty much use just for tethering my D800. It runs Lightroom and in case I need to rush images on site it has Photoshop installed too.

Against my better judgement I "upgraded" to CC version a while back because the Mac OS I'm running prevented the old version connecting to my D800.

Anyway, on a client site yesterday, unpacked all the kit and booted up ready for a long day of shooting and on screen proofing. LR gives me some sort of "I can't connect to the CC server" nonsense. Turn it off and on again a few times and eventually realise that because I haven't logged into CC on this machine for a while it must have expired the license. Which is all fine except that I need it *right now*.

After a frantic 10 mins I eventually persuade reception to unlock their guest wifi for me (this is a big deal - client is pretty keen on security) and 5 mins later all is well.

But......just a warning that you need to open up a CC app when you have internet connectivity now and again. Or. no warning, no grace period, you ain't shooting tethered until you do Cheers Adobe.

 

[Stephen L]

Yet another disadvantage of using applications in the “cloud” (hate that term - it’s really someone else’s server). In hindsight, would you have been better with LR Classic?

 

[andy1868]

The software isn’t in the cloud, It’s very much local on the machine. The licensing however states that you need to sign in to verify that you’re still licensed otherwise you’d just pay for 1 month then cancel your subscription. The grace period is a couple of weeks isn’t it? It doesn’t need to be signed in constantly, just every now and then

Another way to remedy it you could have tethered it to a phone perhaps just to get signed in okay?

 

[JonathanRyan]

Yet another disadvantage of using applications in the “cloud” (hate that term - it’s really someone else’s server). In hindsight, would you have been better with LR Classic?

The program I use is called Lightroom Classic CC edition - I'm not entirely sure what the other one is for.

The software isn’t in the cloud, It’s very much local on the machine. The licensing however states that you need to sign in to verify that you’re still licensed otherwise you’d just pay for 1 month then cancel your subscription. The grace period is a couple of weeks isn’t it? It doesn’t need to be signed in constantly, just every now and then

Another way to remedy it you could have tethered it to a phone perhaps just to get signed in okay?

I tried that. Unfortunately I've never tethered my phone before so don't know if it's possible. Also I was in a glass and steel building which struggled with 3G let alone 4

You're right that I should really have signed in more often. It just never occurred to me. I use the s/w almost daily, I use the wifi almost daily - just never together on this machine (I turn off wifi when shooting even if it's available to avoid update nags etc). I would have appreciated a warning say the week before that I needed to renew the lease.

 

[Stephen L]

The program I use is called Lightroom Classic CC edition - I'm not entirely sure what the other one is for.



I tried that. Unfortunately I've never tethered my phone before so don't know if it's possible. Also I was in a glass and steel building which struggled with 3G let alone 4

You're right that I should really have signed in more often. It just never occurred to me. I use the s/w almost daily, I use the wifi almost daily - just never together on this machine (I turn off wifi when shooting even if it's available to avoid update nags etc). I would have appreciated a warning say the week before that I needed to renew the lease.

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. I think I've only had to sign in to Adobe the once since I renewed my subscription. But then, I'm on a desktop machine permanently connected to t'internet.