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September 22, 2024
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Hi,

I am having issues in Tethering shoot, whereby lightroom will not connect to live view (but is able to import files from camera) and just hangs, it has to be killed in order quit. I am using lightroom on Intel Mac with MacOS Sequoia, camera is Canon 650D. Camera is able to connect via eos utlity and show live view.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

TM

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Correct answer marianr19656020

I found a way to fix the issue of Lr not recognising Canon camera. In Settings- Privacy and Security for Lr full disk access must be disabled! Then under Files and Folders a few options appear for Lr. The most important is Removable Volumes switch which must be set to ON. That's it. My Canon R5 is recognised and I can tether in Lr Classic 14.4

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candace_5730

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Hi,

Does anyone know if the Canon tethering issue has been fixed in Lightroom Classic? Everything was working fine for me, but when my husband updated our Mac to the Sequoia operating system (15.5), Lightroom will no longer recognize my Camera, a Canon 6D Mark II. I saw last year that people were having this issue. Has there still not been a workaround? I'm using Lightroom Classic 14.3.1. Thank you.

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marianr19656020Correct answer

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I found a way to fix the issue of Lr not recognising Canon camera. In Settings- Privacy and Security for Lr full disk access must be disabled! Then under Files and Folders a few options appear for Lr. The most important is Removable Volumes switch which must be set to ON. That's it. My Canon R5 is recognised and I can tether in Lr Classic 14.4

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candace_5730

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Wow---that worked! Thank you very much! I appreciate your advice on this.

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marianr19656020

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I have all boxes there checked, permissions to Lr allowed but tethering with my Canon5D4 still does not work

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ShawnBrookWilliams

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same, still not working

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natural_imagination7126

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Hi!

Spent 2 hours trying to establish tethering with Lightroom 14 and Nikon D850 on Macbook Pro with M3 processor running under Sequoia OS. Camera was visible for image transfer within operating system but not in Lightroom.
Finally I discovered what was causing the issue.

Go to MacOS Settings - Confidentiality and Security - Files and Folders and check permissions for Adobe Lightroom Classic. In my case there was one box unchecked. It was "external volumes" or something. After checking this box tethering started to work.

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marian riabic

New Participant

I just installed LR 14.2 on my MacBook Pro M1 with Sequioa and the tethering with Canon 5D4 is not working. The camera is not detected. I can see the camera in Image Capture but LR won't detect it. This is Feb 2025 and the issue still has not been resolved. I am Adobe paying customer with subscription and this sucks!!!🙎

terryg47610459

Participating Frequently

I too am having trouble on my Mac since upgrading to Sequoia 15.0.1. Since I have upgraded LR does not recognize my Nikon Cameras. Spent about 2 hours with Adobe support to no avail

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IvanoTls

Inspiring

See my previous post, may be solve your issue too. 🙂

terryg47610459

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I did try that, no luck, but thank you!

Have a nice day!

~Terry~

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IvanoTls

Inspiring

I was facing the same tethering issue on MacOS Sequoia 15.1., Lightroom 14.0.1 and my camera Nikon D850.

In the MacOs settings Private & Security/ Files & Folders / Adobe Lightroom Classic, the Network Volumes and Removable Volumes options were set to OFF. I switched them to ON and now tethering work seamlessly again.

Try this - the tethering issue might not be related to the kind of camera (Nikon/Canon) but rather to these missing Lightroom permissions.

PedalGeoff

Known Participant

This worked for me! I'm connecting a Canon 5D Mark IV to Sequoia 15.2 and Lightroom Classic 14.1.1.

Removeable Volumes was turned off. I turned that on, restarted Lightroom and voila, it worked.

Thanks!!

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marian riabic

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Where did you that? Is it in LR Preferences somehere?

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Marco Basile Images

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Hello everyone,

If you have upgraded to the new Lightroom Classic 14.0 and Photoshop 2025,, can you confirm that these will work correctly with Mac Sequoia 15.0.1, including tethering to Nikon? Thank you!

johnrellis

Brainiac

"including tethering to Nikon"

Note that this thread is specific to problems with Canon tethering, so you might want to post your query in another thread.

peter_emmett

New Participant

I ended up using Capture One to capture my images through tethering and then use the Auto Import function to bring them into Lightroom Classic. It's clunky, but this is the third time over the years I've used this solution until Adobe and Apple get the stuff together.

johnrellis

Brainiac

"I ended up using Capture One to capture my images through tethering and then use the Auto Import function to bring them into Lightroom Classic. "

A similar, less-expensive (but perhaps less featureful) workaround is to use the tethering utilities from the camera manufacturers (e.g. Canon EOS Utility).

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Community Manager

~~Presumably, this will be restored by a future OS update.~~

Installation of version 14.0 may mitigate the Sequoia tether issue.

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Rodolfo_Robles8584

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Hola, Al conectar mi cámara a mi laptop para hacer tethering la aplicacion de Lightroom se congela, tengo tanto mi macbook y camara 6D actualizada.

johnrellis

Brainiac

Which version of Mac OS?

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ryanschude

New Participant

Trying to tether multiple cameras to Lightroom Classic 13.5.1, all of which I have tethered to the same Lightroom before, and currently tether to Capture One (ruling out camera, cord, etc. issues), also am able to tether to another iMac using the same Lightroom version, granted the iMac was running Sonoma 14.6.1. This isn't just on my laptop either, have been running into this issue with other user's laptops.

My current operation system: Sequoia 15.0.1 (24A348)

Computer: Macbook Pro 16-inch, 2023, M3

Troubleshooting I have tried already:

1)Uninstalling and reinstalling Lightroom

2)Tried every port on computer

3)Different tether cables

4)Different sequence of turning camera on/off, plugging in, etc.

5)Deleted Lightroom Preferences via:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-tethered-capture-lightroom.html

6)Memory card in and out of camera

7)Destination folder both Pictures and Desktop

KR Seals

Community Expert

There are other accounts of Sequoia breaking tethering. A search of this forum will find them.

See this thread.

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.