P: Upgrading to Sequoia breaks tethering

[thinkingmind]

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

[todde61866495]

This saved me!!!!! Thank you so much for writing this. Updated to Sequoia and my R5 stopped tethering to LR. I spoke with Adobe/Canon/Apple for at least 4 hours in total with no help. You're amazing!!

[terryg47610459]

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

[IvanoTls]

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

[terryg47610459]

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

Have a nice day!

~Terry~

[marianr97404013]

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!!!😡

[natural_imagination7126]

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.

[marianr19656020]

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

[candace_5730]

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.

[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]

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

[marianr19656020]

You are welcome. It took me a long time to figure this out because logically speaking it kind of does not make sense. But it works and that is all what counts🥰