🔎 Quick Tips: How to give Full Disk Access to Lightroom Classic on macOS

I get a message saying 'could not copy to destination folder because it is not writable'

I do not know if this is a coincidence or not - but this started after I updated my desktop Mac to Monterey

Après la dernière mise-à-jour du 17 août, j'ai ce message "Lightroom Classic n'a pas accès à certains dossiers Standard" Comment puis-je donner accès à ces dossiers. Merci pour votre aide. Mac OS.

Léo-Guy de Repentigny

Québec QC Canada

lgder@outlook.com

Hi, I am having trouble importing photos in Lightroom classic from my MacBook, options for desktop etc are greyed out, I think I need to allow Lightroom Classic access to files/pictures stored on my computer, but I can't find the option to do this. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

many thanks

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I had hoped this would solve my problem, but it appears that it does not. 

I was about to try consolodating my legacy mess of random folders with images in my MacOS Pictures folder. My approach was to import them and move so LRc would organise them under Year and date default structure. However, with all the images I ried to do this with, it says I do not have write permission.

Setup: OSX 12.5 M1 MBP 16" and LRc 11.4.1

I have checked the following:

• The folders all have R/W access for the User/Pictures
• I have followed the process above and have enabled LRc in Accessibility (then locked) and full disk access (and locked again).
• I have restarted several times, and double checked all these points, and still I get the same error.
• I also checked the existing default folders for 2022 and the permissions are the same. 

In LRc I can see it has tried to create the folders to import into, but it fails, and the folders remain with a "?" in the app, but have not been created on the drive.

I also tried to create a new library and it craeated the folder and everything seemed fine, but the same thing happened. I tried to import using move and it siad no permissions.

Have I missed something, or what is the next step to try and solve this?  Help appreciated!

Cada vez que abro lightroom me aparece el siguiente mensaje, ¿Alguien sabe como solucionarlo?

Lightroom no puede escribir en los siguientes directorios. Hasta que se solucione este problema, la sincronización con Lightroom podría no funcionar correctamente.

/Users

Tengo la ultima versión de Lightroom Classic y trabajo con un Mac M1 Pro actualizado a la ultima versión de macOS Monterey

Gracias por la ayuda!

Hi,

When I try to Export photos nothing happens. The sub folder gets created but no photos inside. Anyone else experienced this? I'm on macOS Monterey 12.5, Lightroom Classic 11.4.1.

Thanks!

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Hi, I work with smart preview catalogs. The client sent a catalog with gray squares in the development and library modules.

This is definitely a smart preview catalog at least because "smart previews.Irdata" file is inside

and the checkmark in the Histogram menu

But it looks like it's a catalog sent without smart previews and that's why I see message "The file could not be found" on each photo.

If I click on the smart preview icon in the upper right corner of any photo in the timeline, this message appears

There were no such problems before. The client always exported the same way and everything worked

 What could be the reason?

macOS Monterey and Lightroom v11.1 on both computers.