Message comes up on LR startup

[davidg51]

I use 3 hard drives for my photos. My catalogue is on the computer. Each time I start up I get this message in a window.....[Lightroom cannot write to the following directories. Until this problem is resolved, syncing from Lightroom may not function correctly.]..It lists my X hard drive which i'm not using.

Again I have 2 other drives I am using.

Should I be doing something to stop this message instead of just hitting the OK button to make it go away???

Thanks, David

[Just Shoot Me]

Something in the LR catalog is looking to that X drive.

Do you have or did you have images on that drive that are imported into the LR catalog?

[davidg51]

HI Akash,

The letter "I" external drive was my original catalogue and photo storage, has about 30, 000 photos on it. It had my photos and LR Cat file.

Adobe support had me move my LR Cat file to my computers drive. I merged another catalogue X to this one..

I took a LR private course and they taught us to start lightroom from an external drive and have the LR Cat on that drive too. I thought you should have one catalogue on each external drive you use.

Since then I've learned to keep one catalogue on the computer and use multiple hard drives for the photos, which makes more sense.

I can't find any Adobe documentation that teaches that...

thanks for your help.

[davidg51]

I'm using Adobe Lightroom Classice 8.3.1 I use the CC version

[Rob_Cullen]

It doesn't really matter where your catalog is located- but obviously on an external drive you must have the drive attached to use the catalog. One Catalog located on the fastest internal drive is often recommended (unless you want to use your catalog remotely).

Now your photo files-

They can exist on any number of drives, internal and external, and the Catalog will reference those files anywhere, but to edit, develop, print, those photos, the drive with those photos must be connected, otherwise the photos show as "Missing" in the catalog.

I have three drives connected C: D: E:  -Note the Green light to indicate they are "Online"

If I remove the USB E: Drive the Green light goes out and drive is marked as "Offline"-

Now my E: drive is showing all my photos on that drive as "Missing"- and as I have not used photos on this drive for some time, and maybe rebuilt my previews at some stage- it does not even show me previews, just grey images.

Re-connecting the USB drive will allow the photos to re-link and re-build the previews.

I use the CC version

All Adobe software is now "CC"-  v8.3.1 is now referred to as "Lightroom-Classic". The cloudy version 2.3 is now called "Lightroom"- confusing hey!

[davidg51]

Thanks all useful info

I have one more issue. I always have some photos that haven't synched. The message says so many pending or synching, but it never does it. How do I get those images to synch. I've attached a screen shot. I don't know how these ended up not being synched.

Also, that button that says "Delete All Synced Data". Is that something that should be done??

Thanks for your help, I am not a fan of Adobes Help documentation, it is not written for people to understand..Dave Girson

[Jao vdL]

What is set for the sync location in your Lightroom preferences->Lightroom Sync settings?

[davidg51]

Hi, i'm attaching a screen shot. Not sure why I have the file location for sybnched photos...What file is supposed to be there? I can't find instructions for the preference section...

Also, should we be deleting synched data from time to time???

Thanks

DAvid

[Jao vdL]

Your Lightroom is set to sync images from the mobile side that are in the cloud to the missing X-drive. You should specify a different location for the Lightroom Synced images. Also, your catalog must still be referring to a lot of images on X which is where all the sync errors are coming from. You should probably turn off the syncing on those in Lightroom to clear those errors.

[Rob_Cullen]

Some general advice also-

I note your filenames include commas.

Suggestion- do not use characters in filenames that Lightroom may consider "illegal"

[davidg51]

Thanks for your information..my situation is mostly the same setup as yours...David

On Thursday, June 6, 2019, 11:29:47 PM CDT, WobertC <forums_noreply@adobe.com> wrote:

Message comes up on LR startup

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It doesn't really matter where your catalog is located- but obviously on an external drive you must have the drive attached to use the catalog. One Catalog located on the fastest internal drive is often recommended (unless you want to use your catalog remotely).

Now your photo files-

They can exist on any number of drives, internal and external, and the Catalog will reference those files anywhere, but to edit, develop, print, those photos, the drive with those photos must be connected, otherwise the photos show as "Missing" in the catalog.

I have three drives connected C: D: E:  -Note the Green light to indicate they are "Online"

https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-11111431-1767446/ScreenShot011.jpg

If I remove the USB E: Drive the Green light goes out and drive is marked as "Offline"-

https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-11111431-1767447/ScreenShot012.jpg

Now my E: drive is showing all my photos on that drive as "Missing"- and as I have not used photos on this drive for some time, and maybe rebuilt my previews at some stage- it does not even show me previews, just grey images.

https://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-11111431-1767448/ScreenShot013.jpg

Re-connecting the USB drive will allow the photos to re-link and re-build the previews.

I use the CC version

All Adobe software is now "CC"-  v8.3.1 is now referred to as "Lightroom-Classic". The cloudy version 2.3 is now called "Lightroom"- confusing hey!

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[Akash Sharma]

Hi David,

This is not a typical experience as Lightroom is showing an error message "Lightroom cannot write to the following directories. Until this problem is resolved, syncing from Lightroom may not function correctly".

Which version of Lightroom Classic are you using and what is your operating system and its version?

Could you please take a look at this similar discussions below and let us know if they help in resolving the issue?

"Lightroom cannot write to the following directories" | Photoshop Family Customer Community

Lightroom cannot write to the following directories

Thanks,

Akash