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How many computers can I install Lightroom Classic on?

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Hello,

I have the Photography Plan with Adobe. Does anyone know how many computers I can install Lightroom Classic on with that plan?

Thanks!
 
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You can install Lightroom on as many as you want. Only two licenses can be active at a time. You need to activate/deactivate the computers at your Adobe account page on line.
 
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BTW, deactivating/activating is very easy to do. For a while I was regularly using LrC on three computers, and it only took me a minute or so to handle the process when I wanted to use LrC on a computer on which it was not currently activated.
 
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camner said:
BTW, deactivating/activating is very easy to do. For a while I was regularly using LrC on three computers, and it only took me a minute or so to handle the process when I wanted to use LrC on a computer on which it was not currently activated.
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True - but my biggest problem was remembering the name of the computer. I wasn't very creative a few years ago with computer names and once or twice deactivated the wrong one.
 
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Jimmsp said:
True - but my biggest problem was remembering the name of the computer. I wasn't very creative a few years ago with computer names and once or twice deactivated the wrong one.
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I’ve done that, too, but I don’t think there is really any “wrong one” to deactivate. If you deactivate one that you didn’t mean to deactivate, the only downside is that the next time you fire up Lightroom with that computer, you’ll have to activate it again, which just involves a couple of easy steps.
 
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Jimmsp said:
True - but my biggest problem was remembering the name of the computer. I wasn't very creative a few years ago with computer names and once or twice deactivated the wrong one.
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This is where a post-it note stuck to the edge of your monitor comes in handy.
 
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Adobe s/w sees a computer with an external thunderbolt drive being different from the same computer without the external thunderbolt drive, and can require that I activate the one I want without telling me which is which. It arises because Thunderbolt is an extension of the internal PCIe system. Add in a laptop pc and it gets messy. Post-it notes would not help at all. I reckon Adobe could be clever enough to realise it's the same cpu, m/b, ram, etc., or at least tell me what's different about the two computers. The time they spend on it would be less than the accumulated time wasted by the affected users.
 
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