Lightroom CC from the MAS – A Single File in the Applications folderįor your information, using Lightroom CC on an 8 GB M1 MacBook Air is a breeze, thanks to the mighty M1 chip, the unified memory architecture, integrated GPU and the fast SSD. I much prefer installing applications that way. That’s the typical sandboxed environment that the Mac App Store requires. The installation is fast, and no uninstall scripts are required. Since there is no apparent feature difference between the Mac App Store version and the one from, I decided to install the Mac App Store version. When downloading Adobe Lightroom CC from the Mac App Store, the installation and update processes are handled by the store and the operating system itself. Lightroom and Adobe processes running on the Mac mini The following screenshot shows many Adobe-related processes running on my Mac mini. Since my MacBook Air only got 8 GB of RAM, minimizing the number of background processes consuming precious memory is a mandatory objective. Several background processes are running to support its features. A storage provider is also installed so that files can be accessed from within the Finder. This utility provides a single point of entry to subscribed applications from your Adobe subscription plan, as well as files on Adobe’s cloud. The problem with this installation method is that the Adobe Creative Cloud application gets installed while installing Lightroom CC. Lightroom CC installed from comes with an installer. As you can see from the following screenshot, Adobe creates an uninstaller script for me to use if I want to remove Lightroom from my machine. On the former, Lightroom CC was installed from Adobe. I own two Macs: an M1 Mac mini and an M1 MacBook Air.

This week, Adobe released a new version of Lightroom CC, which prompted me to ask myself: should I install it from the Mac App Store or ? Is there any difference? Here’s why.Īfter coming back from a short out-of-town weekend trip, I recently wanted to process my photos with Adobe Lightroom CC on my MacBook Air, but it wasn’t installed yet, as I reserved this task for my Mac mini instead. What is the most efficient and cleanest way to install Adobe Lightroom CC on a Mac these days? Use the Mac App Store.

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