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tonywilson3454
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September 29, 2023
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MacOS Sonoma completely breaks Sony camera compatibility

  • September 29, 2023
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The update to MacOS Sonoma introduces some new system privacy stuff that apparently prevents Lightroom Classic from seeing any photos on a connected camera, and thus nothing to import. It actally prevents the camera mounting its drives in the Finder as well, although if I remove the card and use a card reader, the drive mounts OK. 

 

The advice is to do the usual allowing Lightroom full disk access - but I already had done this, and it is switched on both in the Files and Folders and Full Disk Access sections of Settings > Security and Privacy. 

 

Does anyone know who needs to fix this? It's not specifically a LR issue (as I say the camera no longer mounts as a volume of files in the Finder either) - is it a Sony issue?

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    tonywilson3454
    tonywilson3454Author
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    September 29, 2023

    Additionally - this information seems to be outdated 

     

    https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/allow-permissions.html?trackingid=29NMCKMQ&mv=in-product

     

    This is not what I see when I go into the relevant section in Settings. 

     

      tonywilson3454
      tonywilson3454Author
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      September 29, 2023

      Update - if I turn off the full disk access for Lightroom, then those other options like desktop and documents do indeed appear, and are switched on. But neither LR nor the finder can see the folders of images when the card is in the camera, so it's still a bug. Neither full disk access or the files and folders option seem to allow LR to see the images. 

      Rikk Flohr_Photography
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      Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
      September 29, 2023

      Thank you, but I wasn't asking about this bug any more. I understand it's an apple Sony issue. I was asking why, when Sonoma has been available in beta for many months, a company as large as Adobe doesn't have Lightroom compatible after its release? We do pay for this stuff. 


      If you are new to the forums, my apologies. This has been explained many times before all over this forum:

      Much like a raw file for an unreleased camera, manufacturers reserve the right to make changes up until the actual release date - Apple is no different. Until an interfacing software is in a complete release state, the issue of compatibility is largely moot. Otherwise, time would be spent chasing, changing, and then reverting those changes to accommodate the moving target of the OS's bugs life cycle. 

       

      LrC 12.5 was released in August. Sonoma was released in September. Doubtless, the next release of LrC will be Sonoma compatible, but it is a little odd to expect it to be retroactive. 

       

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