Lightroom 6 Freezes: Only Reinstallation Fixes It (Temporarily)

After installation on my Win 7 64 bit machine, Lightroom 6 Standalone repeatedly freezes. It works for a while but if I close the program and then reopen it later on, I get the "not responding" revolving circle. I have deleted the .lock file each time before I tried to launch the program and tried launching from the short cut and from the task bar. I also tried upgrading my LR5 catalog a second time. Nothing has worked. Only re-installation gets it to run again.The second time it crashed was after I closed the program trying to stop facial recognition on my "All Photographs" folder.
Yes, these are the perils of an early adapter. I would have installed the trial, but I didn't realize that the standalone comes with a CC setup file too, so I cancelled the installation and bought a license, only to find out I was installing the same file I had cancelled. My fault, but Adobe has made it easy for an old **** like me to make a mistake.

I'm getting thect same problem as you, kwdaves! It's a tremendously frustrating process. It will work flawlessly for a couple of days and then, 'boom' - it's not happy any more and won't co-operate. I bought the perpetual licence and have upgraded from LR5 on a Win7 64-bit SP1 OS. I, too, am not happy at the subversive strategies that Adobe is employing to cloak the pathway to aquiring a perpetual licence whilst coercing most towards the CC model. I find it dishonest and invasive - almost parroting the Microsoft approach, but all-the-while pretending that it is an entirely acceptable practice. It is only acceptable as long as consumers allow it. Please consider the open approach to licensing and superb product development that I used to respect Adobe for.

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