Reinstalling Lightroom 5 from the Creative Cloud

Question

Assistance required. I have had to delete the previously installed Lightroom 5 Creative Cloud app. however the download app tells me that Lightroom 5 is still installed . Tried restarting the computer to no avail. How do I reinstall Lightroom 5 from my Creative Cloud membership??

Answer 1

I had the same problem where Lightroom 5 would not reinstall from Creative Cloud.
I used the uninstallers located in the Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers folder.
I also followed all four steps under "When you open the Creative Cloud desktop application, programs are listed as up-to-date even though they are not installed", which included "removing all installed Adobe Creative software. Once all Adobe Creative software has been removed, use the CS Cleaner Tool to ensure a complete removal".  Still the Creative Cloud desktop application listed Lightroom 5 as up-to-date.
The it occurred to me that I have an external hard drive that I use to keep a backup of my primary drive that is on at all times.  I ejected the external drive, signed out and back into Creative Cloud and bingo! the Creative Cloud desktop application allowed me to reinstall Lightroom 5.  I did have to keep the external hard drive disconnected through the entire reinstall process, because when I reconnected it during the download of Lightroom 5 it again installed on my external hard drive.  So I had to disconnect again, sign out and back into CC and reinstall before connecting my external hard drive again.
My problems began when I upgraded Lightroom 5 to v5.5.  It seems as thought v5.5 was installed on my external hard drive, even though v5 was clearly on my primary drive (I know, because I saw the app there).
So I offer this as a possible solution to anyone still having this problem.
In my case I have a Mac running Version 10.9: "Mavericks".  The backup program I use, ChronoSync, is configured to maintain an identical image that I can actually boot from in case of a primary hard drive failure.
Question:  Is there a way to direct CC to install LR 5 and all other products on my primary hard drive?  I see this in the forum which implies I can't.  Of course in my case it is apparently confused over what my local drive is, so disregarding my preference is not working.
Why can't I install Lightroom to a custom location through the Creative Cloud?
Lightroom must be installed to your local drive and can't be installed to custom location like other Creative Cloud apps. Lightroom always installs to the default location and disregards any preference you select for a custom location. This behavior is as designed.