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Photos have read-only access
I upgraded from Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 to CC subscription Lightroom Classic 8.2.1.
My images are stored on internal hard drive.
With Lightroom 5.7 I have no problem to write metadata into photos. However, when I try the same with Lightroom classic 8.2.1, I'm getting error - photos have read-only access.
But when I check photos, the check mark for "read-only" is unchecked.
Permissions - I'm the only user (administrator), and all of principals (windows 10) have full access to image files.
After trying a lot of things (changing permissions, installing/un-installing lightroom, creating new catalogs, ..) I finally figured out what is the problem:
My image files are on virtual drive. I created virtual drive using DOS command "subst" (historical reasons; subst D: G:\...\....\....\Photos ).
Lightroom 5.7 doesn't have any problem with such created virtual drive, can write metadata into jpg files, but Lightroom Classic (newest version) can't. Always getting message "Photos have read-only access".
If I dismount the virtual drive and point the Lightroom Classic 8.2.1 catalog folder to the real location of photos, then the metadata writing works.
So my questions are:
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I have the same problem, no idea how to fix this
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me too
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I also have trouble with this.
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Two year old posting with no solution, Original poster may have fixed or moved on, who knows.
No idea what the Operating System is for any of the people posting.
Please post your own problem. When you do include the following:
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I have had problems with this for years. when attempting to save metadata lightroom . first it gives me a message that an unknown error was encounter while trying to save metadata then it
gives me an error saying I have read only access.
Using windows 10
custom built machine from Puget systems
plenty of ram
not on external drive
Lightroom 11.0
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Here's what help me:
Open Lightroom, go to Edit -> Catalog ->
Here's what help me:
Open Lightroom, go to Edit -> Catalog -> Metadata
In "Editing" window uncheck "Automatically write changes into XMP"
Next step is to click on the icon showing problem on Your photo and choose option that You want ("Import Settings from Disk" or "Retry Metadata Export") and it's done.
In "Editing" window uncheck "Automatically write changes into XMP"
Next step is to click on the icon showing problem on Your photo and choose option that You want (Import Settings from Disk or Retry Metadata Export) and it's done.