Picked up a used mac with a pirated lightroom 5. I want to purchase lightroom but don't want to lose my pictures. Will i lose them?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

mistercausey wrote:
Will I just switch out licenses or something? Or is it a complete reinstall?
Good question. I supsect you'll have to find and delete whatever preference file stores the illegal (if that's the correct term) serial number. Then it will ask you to re-enter next launch. So you probably don't have to reinstall the entire app not that it's a big deal. And if you actually purchase a license, well you could probably just keep working but to follow the letter of the law, delete that file (not sure where it resides, depends on the OS), then enter the purchased serial.

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