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davidg51
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June 6, 2019
Question

Message comes up on LR startup

  • June 6, 2019
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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

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    Akash Sharma
    Akash Sharma
    Legend
    June 6, 2019

    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

    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    June 6, 2019

    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?

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    davidg51Author
    Known Participant
    June 6, 2019

    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.

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