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blairy
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April 20, 2023
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Sharing catalog & NAS across Win11 PC and MacBook Pro 2023

  • April 20, 2023
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I've been using LR Classic for some years mostly on a Windows PC (now) running Win11.  This setup had my catalog on C:/ drive; some photos also on C:/drive with bulk of photos stored on my NAS.

I've recently added a MacBook into the mix.  My catalog is now on an external SSD and works fine with my Windows PC.  The catalog also works on my MacBook...BUT, my NAS is showing as offline in Lightroom.

The NAS is online and on my MacBook I can access the NAS through finder and have no trouble opening files (including photos) from the NAS.

Any clues as to what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated.

Cheers

blairy

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Sameer K
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Sameer KCommunity Manager
Community Manager
April 21, 2023

Hey @blairy. Welcome to the Lightroom Classic Community. I'll help you figure this out.

What version of macOS & Lightroom Classic are you working on?

 

Lightroom Classic on newer macOS versions needs extra permissions to access external drives & NAS drives.

Try this:

 

Let us know how it goes. Thanks!

Sameer K

 

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blairyAuthor
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April 22, 2023

Thanks Sameer.  I'm using Ventura 13.3.1 with Lightroom Classic 12.3.

I followed the instructions in the link you provided but my NAS is still not coming up.  When I try 'Find Missing Folder' I get the error message: An internal error has occurred.  Invalid Path.

Any other suggestions?

Cheers

blairy

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blairyAuthor
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April 29, 2023

Based on various internet sites and photography websites feedback it seems that I cannot use the same lightroom catalogue to point to a NAS from both a WIN11PC and a Macbook.  Win11 sees the NAS one way and MacBook another.  Based on this what I am trying to do cannot be accommodated.  Either I need to use my main Win11PC with the entire catalogue and run a subset  of that (with its own catalogue) on the MacBook utilising import/export function) OR run both machines with main catalogues pointed to the NAS and (somehow) keep them synchronised.

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