How to provide Full Disk Access on macOS
Since macOS 10.14 (Mojave), Apple introduced a new privacy structure to help ensure that all applications obtain user consent before accessing documents, downloads, desktop, iCloud Drive, and network volumes. This has been reinforced in newer versions of macOS. This change prevents unauthorized access to user files and folders.
When Full Disk access & Accessibility permissions are needed, users may be asked to or be required to change the setting in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy for Lightroom Classic manually.
While for the File & Folders access, the user is prompted to allow or deny when needed.
Why provide full disk access to Lightroom Classic?
Insufficient or broken permissions may restrict Lightroom Classic from functioning correctly and break your workflows. All tasks that require access to the computer's storage — importing/exporting images, cross-app workflows, reading/writing metadata, and more, behave unexpectedly. It may also lead to missing images, performance issues, unexpected sync issues, and random app crash on launch or while working on a file.
Watch this video for the steps:
Quick steps to enable full disk access and grant permissions to Lightroom Classic
Follow these steps to prevent the permissions issues from occurring:
❶ Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Click the Lock icon > Authorize via password > Unlock the lock to allow changes to system settings.
❷ Add Lightroom Classic by clicking on the (+) button & navigate to the Applications folder on macOS.
❸ Go to Full Disk Access and add Lightroom Classic by clicking on the (+) button & navigate to the Applications folder on macOS.
Note: Adding Lightroom Classic under Full Disk Access overrides Files and Folders settings.
❹ Click the Lock icon to save the changes. Restart your computer to see the applied changes.
Stay tuned for more tips to come.
Related links:
Lightroom Classic system requirements
Quick Tips: Optimize LrC preferences for better performance
Basic troubleshooting steps to fix issues in Lightroom Classic
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@Vesa5EC1wrote, "Changed manually permissions in folder of external hard drive".
Make sure you grant Full Disk Access, as described in step 3 of the original post in this thread. It looks like this:
Hi! I have gone through dozens of these threads and troubleshoted a lot, but I cannot figure out a solution to this problem. I've used the same drive to store my photos for lightroom for the last few years, but recently lightroom stopped allowing me to import anything from it, and it simply won't show anything that's on the drive. It shows up as a source, but when I click on it it says "no photos found". I hit include subfolders, I've changed privacy settings, I've updated the app and the OS system (mac os monterey 12.4), etc. but to no avail. Lightroom will read other external drives and sd cards, so I assume it's a specific issue with this one, but I can't figure out what could possibly be causing it.
Here's a screenshot of what I see:
In your screen shot, you have No Name and four total folders, If you click on each, do you ever see anything?
LIGHTROOM CLASSIC V11.4.1 Won't Export Any Files
I'm on a Macbook Pro OS 12.4
Help! For some reason lightroom won't export anything from my laptop at the moment. I've tried everything and restarting everything too. Any ideas what it could be or how to fix? When I send files to get exported everything runs normal until the loading bar just stays still and no files get exported so I have to cancel it. Doesn't show any erros happening either.
{Thread title updated by moderator}
I'm unable to import images from an external drive. During the import process the drive is visible but when selected, its shows no files or folders. See attached screen shot. I've also attached a screen shot of the files on the external drive. This just started happening out of nowhere. Any help would be appreciated!
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