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Permissions: lightroom does not have write permission to some standard user folders

Community Beginner ,
May 14, 2020 May 14, 2020

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Hello everyone,

After installing Xrite color checker & DNG profiler I was unable to locate the plugin so logged out of LR thinking it may need to restart to see said plugins. When relaunching LR I got: "lightroom does not have write permission to some standard user folders", see screen shots.

 

So far I have done the following:

Created another user login with admin permissions, LR works fine. 

None of the following has changed anything:

Rebooted in safe mode

Rebooted in PRAM mode, not sure of correct terminology here 🙂 ... opt+command+P+R

Moved Xrite Color Checker & DNG Profiler to the trash (they were actually apps, not plugins)

Trashed BashScriptDebug.txt file

Given LR & PS permissions in Security & Privacy. As you can see from the screenshot I have no option for files & folders in security & privacy.

Same problem when opening old LR version

Ripped my hair out & googled until my fingers bled.

 

I found on this forum a thread where someone said they manually changed permissions by running a script, but didnt give any indication of what or how. sadly I know zippo about scripts.

 

All updates are current.

 

Looking forward to your replies, many many thanks in advance.

Lyn

 

24inch iMac, late 2014

High Sierra

LR Classic

 

 

 

 

 

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Community Expert , May 15, 2020 May 15, 2020

Try the followingopen up terminal.app (type terminal in the looking glass top right in the menubar)

 

type (just copy and paste):

 

diskutil resetUserPermissions / `id -u`

 

This will take a while and will reset the permissions in your home folder. Might fix your problem.

 

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New Here ,
Oct 03, 2023 Oct 03, 2023

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For those still having this issue in 2023, I just fixed it very quickly with using a script to restore permissions. That information can be found here: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/lightroom-basic-troubleshooting-fix-most-issues.html#Tr... 

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