Question

Lightroom Classic 15.1 - macOs Tahoe - Lightroom drops connection to camera (Nikon Z6 3) for imports

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December 29, 2025
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Hello - I wonder if anyone can help with this issue.. When I connect my camera (Nikon z6 3) to my mac running lightroom classic to import photos via USB, the camera briefly displays the screen to tell me that it is in upload mode but after a second or two the connection is dropped and lightroom will not ingest photos from the camera.

The weird bit is that if I start Nikon Transfer 2, that app maintains a stable connection to the camera (also using USB-C), which allows me to import to Lightroom (!), so all is not lost but frankly that is not a great solution. I would be grateful for any suggestions for a fix.

Regards,

Aidan Gaule

macOS

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Anonymous

Hi, I have this exact same issue, but I would like to add a bit more information. everything was working fine and I was able to import directly from my Nikon Z8 into my Mac/Lighroom Classic until I updated my Mac to Tahoe 26.2. Inmediately after updating the issue you stated above started. I tried all the obvious... restating, changing calbes, checking firmware versions, etc. Until I decided to check with my wife's Mac, which had not been updated to Tahoe 26.2. And the moment I connected the camera to her Mac, all went back to normal. So in my opinion this is a Mac OS system issue.

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sparktownianaAuthor

Hi Marcelo,

I agree that this issue appeared with Tahoe. However the fact that Nikon Transfer can maintain a connection and Lightroom can't suggests that there is a specific interaction with LIghtroom that adobe perhaps should look at.

Aidan

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Anonymous

That is correct. My point is that even if Lightroom is not open when you connect the camera via USBC, the camera stays in upload priority for a second or two and the inmediatelly goes back to shoting priority, something that before the update (which I confirmed with my wife's mac) did not happen. So I feel that there is something that either Apple or Nikon will have to fix, but for sure it would be nice if Adobe helps...

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Aleke

Community Manager

Hi @sparktowniana, welcome to the community!
As a first step, could you make sure Lightroom Classic has full disk access on your machine? You can follow the steps in this guide:
https://adobe.ly/3N83dPf
Thanks so much!
Alek

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