Lightroom 6 migration from Aperture Library

Hi, I have bough Lightroom 6 for win but I don't find the Plug-in Extras > Import from Aperture Library. Can you help me?

john beardsworth wrote:
Do you see it in Plugin Manager? What version of the plugin? It should be 1.0.989919. Is it enabled?
I'm not sure it's designed to run on Windows. Adobe may have assumed that only Apple users would need it.
Can't find them now, but yes, the plug-in only works on Lightroom for OS X.  Confirmed by Adobe.  Only option is to run the migration on a Mac and use the result on Windows.

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