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Trond Braadland
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April 30, 2018
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Lightroom not able to import from NAS

  • April 30, 2018
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After the latest update to Lightroom CC Classic I am not able to import images from my Asustor NAS. I works fine with the cloud-based Lightroom CC, and with Photoshop. With LR CC Classic, nothing happens when I click the network station (except for a spinning wheel). There is no problem writing to the NAS, however. I tried putting som metadata into an image and then saving it. No problem there. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what the problem can be? And yes, I have checked the network privileges and restarted LR several times.

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    Sean McCormack
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    Sean McCormackCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 10, 2018

    You should be able to have photos on the NAS, just not the catalog itself.

    Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
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    herruwe
    Participant
    July 10, 2018

    The catalogue is on the hard drive. But importing a bigger bunch of assets from an external source to your computer the import dialogue just freezes and nothing happens for at least an hour what I have tested.

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    Eugene34163252ne0t
    Participant
    December 10, 2023

    So basically an expensive software fails at the most basic functions needed.  Look for another solution. Run!

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    herruwe
    Participant
    July 10, 2018

    Try to copy a folder with a bunch of assets (e.g. 20 pics) from your NAS/Server to your HDD.

    Link Lightroom with it. Delete the copies again after import to Lightroom. Lightroom will now ask you for help finding the source. Now link to your Server or NAS (without a frozen import dialogue) and import the rest to your catalogue.

    I have done this Import folder by folder, so I can not say how it works when importing the whole catalogue of 20-30.000 assets but it works with imports around approx 500-1000 pics from a camera wit 50MB file size per asset.

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