Been setting up my new (used) computer. (2019 Retina iMac running Sonoma 14.5) An Apple guy helped me set up the old computer so everything didn't sync to the cloud, thereby preventing me from paying more for cloud storage, a revenue stream that lags just behind the iPhone on Apple's books.
The new computer didn't benefit from whatever that guy did so, of course, my free storage was wiped out in a second and the ads to buy more space started appearing. I have only the smallest of needs for the iCloud; I certainly don't need to buy more space. "Documents" was the biggest villain so I stopped syncing that. Immediately, everything disappeared from my desktop, including my photos folder.
No need to panic. I've been down this road before. Sure enough, everything from my desktop was now in the Finder. I moved everything back where it was and everything is working perfectly EXCEPT Lightroom which won't start but instead gives me a "an error prevented Lightroon Classic from opening this catalog" message. All of the pictures are in the folder, a catalog is in the folder, but it won't launch. I've tried starting it both by clicking on the usual icon and by clicking on the catalog in the folder but neither works.
HELP! Save me from the evil cloud beings. It was running so nicely on this modern day machine. Now all is lost.
Many thanks to the wonderful person who can save me from this very special hell.
Secondary question: I guess Sonoma was the OS that was originally installed on this machine. I thought I had upgraded but . . . My question to the group is can I upgrade? Should I? Can this machine run the latest software? Specs:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac19,2
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i3
Processor Speed: 3.6 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 16 GB
System Firmware Version: 2022.100.22.0.0
OS Loader Version: 580~2215
SMC Version (system): 2.47f3
Serial Number (system): C02DF1EH07F5
Hardware UUID: 98445367-3958-5023-BAF3-59545F4E4EBA
Provisioning UDID: 98445367-3958-5023-BAF3-59545F4E4EBA
Macintosh HD:
Free: 133.07 GB (133,073,346,560 bytes)
Capacity: 250.69 GB (250,685,575,168 bytes)
Mount Point: /
File System: APFS
Writable: No
Ignore Ownership: No
BSD Name: disk1s1s1
Volume UUID: E3CA12ED-D15F-471D-B166-D523FAF40677
Physical Drive:
Device Name: APPLE SSD SM0256L
Media Name: AppleAPFSMedia
Medium Type: SSD
Protocol: PCI-Express
Internal: Yes
Partition Map Type: Unknown
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
Thansk again.
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