P: Backup to NAS hangs at "Copying Catalog"

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December 22, 2020
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Hi! After losing a hard drive to a spilled cup of coffee (thankfully, not a single file lost), I just upgraded to new M1 MacBook Air with Big Sur 11.1. I have Lightroom Classic version 10.1 installed and working well, except when I backup the catalog to my Synology NAS as I close out of Lightroom, it hangs on the backup at "Copying Catalog". I've let it run for hours and nothing.

If I backup to the local SSD everything works great. Lightroom has no issues accessing the NAS for import and access to the original raw files that I keep on the NAS. It does seem to start the backup as the NAS will show the dated folder along with the Catalog.lcat file and lrcat-wal file, but it never zips and completes the process. I found a post that suggested giving Lightroom access to Full Disk, which I've tried, but that didn't seem to make any difference.

I've been manually copying the backups to the NAS without issue, but really want this to work automatically to ensure I always have good backups. HELP! Thanks in advance!

MacBook Air M1

Big Sur 11.1

Lightroom Classic 10.1

Synology DS718+

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Tony_See

Inspiring

If its of any help to your situation I am using LRC on an iMac and I use Transmit very reliably to backup/sync files to a NAS.

But I'm one version of the Mac OS down from you.

I'm really cautious on updates.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Did this work on your older machine before? Curious if you've ever had it work this way. This might be a file locking issue. Does it work well if you move files within Classic to the NAS drive or if you import images with a destination on the NAS?