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September 9, 2024
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Lightroom cannot write to the target disk?

  • September 9, 2024
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I just started having this problem today. I've been working on importing batches of photos for products I sell on Etsy. In the morning, imports seemed to be working fine, and I had around 227 gigs free on the NVME drive I am importing to (happens to be my C: drive, windows 11). 

 

Over the last few hours, I've been having problems where the LAST image (RAW) of the batch I am importing, always fails to write during import. My total free space is now 224 gigs, so there is PLENTY of space left. I've tried other write testing on the drive, both manually (just copying files in) as well as with some testing tools, and everything seems to be perfectly fine with the drive. It is a very high speed NVME drive that is plugged directly into one of the M.2 slots on my motherboard, and it does not conflict with video card PCI-e lanes or anything like that (it enjoys its full 4x lanes without conflict at all times.) 

 

I'm really baffled why this is happening. The drive seems to be totally fine. It only seems to be LRC that is having trouble. I've restarted it a few times. It was recently updated, maybe a few days to possibly a week ago. I haven't updated LR in quite some time before that, and there are some changes compared to what I was familiar with before. I've checked the configuration settings, verified that everything is good, correct and to my liking.

 

I'm just baffled...anyone have any idea why this is occurring?

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Correct answer JRista

Well, figured this out. Apparently where I was choosing to import all my photos was a part of my local Microsoft OneDrive sync area. As such, OneDrive was syncing everything, instantly, WHILE importing. I don't know why this just became an issue today, as I've had my photos here about a year and a half or more now. But I started noticing sync erros with OneDrive, and it was a bunch of the images I was importing. Pausing OneDrive syncing seems to have resolved the issue.

 

Hopefully if anyone else runs into this, this will help them resolve the issue. Don't know if it can happen with other online drives, but I've occasionally had sync issues like this with OneDrive in the past with other things. (Microsoft REALLY needs to add a configurable delay for its sync, so that it doesn't start trying to sync while data is still being written, or doesn't lock a directory while files are being written into it!) 

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JRistaAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 9, 2024

Well, figured this out. Apparently where I was choosing to import all my photos was a part of my local Microsoft OneDrive sync area. As such, OneDrive was syncing everything, instantly, WHILE importing. I don't know why this just became an issue today, as I've had my photos here about a year and a half or more now. But I started noticing sync erros with OneDrive, and it was a bunch of the images I was importing. Pausing OneDrive syncing seems to have resolved the issue.

 

Hopefully if anyone else runs into this, this will help them resolve the issue. Don't know if it can happen with other online drives, but I've occasionally had sync issues like this with OneDrive in the past with other things. (Microsoft REALLY needs to add a configurable delay for its sync, so that it doesn't start trying to sync while data is still being written, or doesn't lock a directory while files are being written into it!) 

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