Mac Crashes on Lightroom Import

[David21958765hlkw]

Hi all - I have been having an issue with my Macbook Pro (2021 M1) crashing on the first photo import attempt. It does not seem to matter how many photos I try to import, the computer crashes upon hitting the import button. After restarting the computer, it usually imports without issues. I have started doing one bogus import to let the computer crash so that I can get on with actual work. I saw one other post about someone's M2 Mac behaving in a possibly similar way, but otherwise I can't find any information or answers about this. I am not sure if this started with an update of LR or the Mac - it seemed to start randomly several months or longer ago. The Mac itself seems fine - All other apps behave normally. My colleague with an older Mac does not have this problem. Any ideas? Thanks

[dj_paige]

Are you talking about Lightroom (Lr icon) or Lightroom Classic (LrC icon)? What version NUMBER? We need the version NUMBER and not words like "latest" or "up-to-date".

If the entire MAC crashes, not just your Lr or LrC crashes, this is almost always a hardware malfunction somewhere.

[David21958765hlkw]

Classic 15.0

thanks

[Aleke]

Hi @David21958765hlkw
Just checking in to see if you're still running into that issue. Let me know when you get a chance!
Thanks so much,
Alek

[David21958765hlkw · Accepted solution]

@Aleke Thank you for checking in. I think I was able to isolate the issue to the external hard drive (My Passport for Mac SSD), where I had been storing the photo files. I transferred all of my LRC photo files to a new external hard drive (OWC Envoy Pro FX) and so far I've imported files three times in a row as a test without any issues (it had been every single time). If the problem starts up again I will write back on this thread, but so far seems like an issue with the SSD.