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 I doubt there's anything to worry about, other than the fact that LR 6.1 is way out of date and is incompatible with later macOS, cameras, and other stuff.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.
