Import Issue: "Could not copy a file to the destination folder because it is not writable (1)"
I recently purchased a Macbook Pro 16" with lots of power and plenty of space in the box (3.8TB available). I am running macOS Catalina (10.15.3) and Lightroom Classic ver 9.2.
My previous catalogue on my previous computer was stored on an external drive.
When I installed LR on my new MBP, I connected the external drive and used the "Copy" command in the Import window to copy 77 GBytes to my new hard drive.
I read a number of posts on this forum relating to this same sort of issue, but must confess, I am not super tech savvy. The point most of the people recommending solutions focussed on ensuring that read/write permissions were set for the "owner" and/or "Everyone" had to have "Read & Write" privileges enabled.
My directory structure was set up originally as the LR default (I am not sure what that was because it was a couple of months ago and I am just starting to add new photos now). I believe I decided after the import, that all of the files should be under my "Pictures" directory. So I moved all of the files that I had just set up with the import, and moved them to the new location. This move operation was completed in "Finder", not in Lightroom. (That was probably a mistake...)
After the move operation, I checked Lightroom and I could see all of my photos (can't remember whether I had to do anything to ensure I can see them, but I could see them...).
Today, I wanted to import a photo as a precursor to importing another 50 or so GBytes and found myself confronted with an inability to import even one picture.
The issue was related to the subject warning.
I used Finder to check the permissions for the directory tree where my photos are stored: Pictures, for Lightroom CC, for 2010, for 2010-10-24 (the date of the photo I was trying to import) and added Read/Write for "Everyone", in each of those 4 directories ("I" already had read/write). LR raised the flag of "Could not copy a file to the destination folder because it is not writable (1)". I then tried connecting my Canon camera and tried to import a picture I took today, where there was no Lightroom directory structure created for today. Again same story.
As I said, I saw posts similar to this, but the solutions that were posted did not work for me. I apologise in advance if the answer was there, but I was unable to discern it.
Thoughts? If you need any screen grabs, I can certainly do that.
Thanks in advance.
Ken
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