LRC Warning Message

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October 28, 2021
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Whenever I start LR Classic (currently V11 but same behavior with V10), I get the following warning (see attached screenshot). I click OK and everything seems to work.

Any idea why this occurs and can I get rid of it?

macOS

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Correct answer JohanElzenga

The suggestions are wrong. This is a different problem. What happened is that the destination folder of images synced down from the cloud was reset to your root user folder. Lightroom does not, and should not, have permissions to write to this folder. Go to Preferences - Lightroom Sync and choose another destination folder location.

JohanElzengaCorrect answer

Community Expert

The suggestions are wrong. This is a different problem. What happened is that the destination folder of images synced down from the cloud was reset to your root user folder. Lightroom does not, and should not, have permissions to write to this folder. Go to Preferences - Lightroom Sync and choose another destination folder location.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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nogfietsenAuthor

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This is sounding a little more plausible. My catalog, helper files and photos were moved to a clean external hard drive from a Time Machine backup (had the same issue when accessing everything on the Time Machine backup). The chosen sync destination and the associated permission is below. What alternative destination would make sense?

Thanks in advance,

Andy

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Actually, unticking the box 'Specify location for Lightroom's synced images' seems to do the trick.

@nogfietsen wrote:

Actually, unticking the box 'Specify location for Lightroom's synced images' seems to do the trick.

Yes, that will also do the trick, but you may not like the way it does that. What happens in that case is that Lightroom will once again use the inflexible 'Mobile Downloads.lrdata' package to store the images, located inside your catalog folder. Most people prefer not to use that, but use their own normal folder hierarchy.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

DdeGannes

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Removed, info supplied by GoldingD.

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