Thanks, all. It’s 6.14 that I’ve been running.
I deleted the mysterious files, and am scanning all my hardware (690,000 files down, 16.4 million to go…). Rick > On Apr 20, 2020, at 11:52 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > The final ever perpetual license version of Lightroom was v6.14 (reference: > https://www.dpreview.com/news/5525938279/adobe-has-released-the-final-standalone-version-of-lightroom > ). > > Any version later than that is some variant of subscription Lightroom, when > all the version numbers became confusing being due to both the variant and > what instance the updater had installed on your particular system. (My > current installation of Lightroom Classic says it is 9.2.1 > [202004070813-7699d98a] in the Finder "Get Info" panel. Inside the running > app, in its About dialog box, LR reports that it contains Camera Raw 12.2.1 > and the Release and Build data matches what the Finder reports.) > > "Adobepatchinstaller" and "payloads" sound like the usually invisible files > that the Adobe updater/software manager/creative cloud uses to do updates. If > you're running Lightroom v6.1, it was probably downloaded in error by > whatever Adobe software manager is installed and active on your system. I saw > this happen a couple of times when I was running versions of perpetual > license LR 6.x prior to installing v6.14. Then all such activity ceased. > > I doubt there's anything to worry about, other than the fact that LR 6.1 is > way out of date and is incompatible with later macOS, cameras, and other > stuff. If it's working fine for your purposes, so far, just delete the folder > and keep going. It's the kind of thing that can happen when you're running > older, now obsolete, software revisions that talk back to their issuing > server occasionally and it runs into commands that it was not designed to > work with. > > I see very few problems now, other than the nagware aspect of the Creative > Cloud software manager always notifying me that something needs attention, > even when I've made the setting to turn off ALL notifications. I mostly just > ignore it. :D > > G > > >> On Apr 20, 2020, at 7:58 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am 20.04.20 um 03:55 schrieb Rick Womer: >>> This evening a folder appeared on my (Mac) desktop, labelled >>> “Lightroom-6.9.0-Update.” >> >> My LR6 is version 6.6.1 and to my knowledge the last version they've >> issued before going for the ransomware scheme. Hence, a version 6.9.0 >> sounds very suspicious. > > >> On Apr 19, 2020, at 6:55 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This evening a folder appeared on my (Mac) desktop, labelled >> “Lightroom-6.9.0-Update.” >> It contains two files, “Adobepatchinstaller" and “payloads.” >> Does anyone here know what this is about? I’m happily using LR 6.1. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
