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I liked LR in the past, I still admire the library functions and Photoshop has no real alternative for me for what it does. 

 

I've left LR for Capture One a few years ago and never really looked back. Still paid the subscription fee on a monthly basis because the catalogs are nice, all my older photos are still in LR (and I was an idiot for converting the Sony RAWs into DNGs, which Capture One For Sony wouldn't work with at that time) and Photoshop was useful as always.

 

However, it all changed overnight. One file got corrupted somehow and I was unable to launch Creative Cloud launcher, nor any of the installed software. It simply says Adobe Application Manager is damaged. Can't uninstall or reinstall neither. There is a fix for that provided by Adobe, but that fails as well. Asked my IT guy and he said this had happened to him before and only way to fix everything is to reformat the drive and reinstall Windows.

 

Bullshit. 

 

I didn't mind the subscription service, nor the price. Even though it had logged me out a few times too often. LR Mobile had crashed once which made it unable to update any of the shared catalogs but I was even fine with that, never had any use for LR Mobile anyway. 

 

But all these happening because everything is so connected now and they can't fix this even though I'm paying them monthly? Nope, not anymore.