'No photos found' on my Samsung Extreme external SSD

[drew_13121961]

Hello,

I have a newish Macbook Pro M3 Max, 48GB of memory and Sequoia 15.3.2. I have plugged in a Samsung Extreme SSD which has a lot of folders containing images (raw and processed), which has been my Lightroom library on an older Intel based Mac (from end 2019). When I open LCC on the new Mac with the SSD plugged in, Finder can see the contents no problem, but LCC just says 'no photos found', despite having subfolders ticked and the drive visible at the root of the tree view on the left. Anybody any ideas why this is?

Regards

Andrew Richards

[Sameer K]

Hey, @drew_13121961. Welcome to the Lightroom Classic Community. I'll help you figure this out. 

Just to be sure, ensure Lightroom Classic has the required permissions on the macOS: https://adobe.ly/43zB3AJ 

Let us know how it goes. Thanks! 

Sameer K

(Type '@' and type my name to mention me when you reply)

[jane-e]

...which has been my Lightroom library

Andrew Richards

By @drew_13121961

I've moved your post from using the community to the Lightroom Classic (LRC) forum.

Please confirm that when you say LCC, you mean Lightroom Classic (LRC)?

Jane

[drew_13121961 · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your interest. Yes, Lightroom Classic. I had some posts to refer to after I had posted myself and was able to work out the solution from these, i.e. give full disk access in system settings in the Mac OS. That has fixed the problem. All a bit tiresome and tedious.......

[jane-e]

@drew_13121961 

Gatekeeper has been part of macOS for several versions now. I'm glad you found the solution!

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/gatekeeper-and-runtime-protection-sec5599b66df/web

Jane