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Could not copy a file to the destination folder because it is not writable. (70)

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
May 29, 2018
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I've seen similar threads but none have helped me. I am certain that the destination folder is writeable as I have written files there and so has Lightroom when it loads from my iPhone via WiFi.

Trying to read images from my OM-D, does not work when I connect by cable, does not work when I put the SD card in a USB card reader. Worked just fine for the past several years with my Canon and my OM-D since December 2017.

Here is the error message:

BUT I have my iPhone set to sync with Lightroom through WiFi and it is doing that just fine - I use the file structure yyyy/mm/dd and since May 19 I have not been able to upload a file from my OM-D but I have over 50 iPhone images that have uploaded just fine.

I have a 1TB drive with over 200GB of space.

I took a shot with my iPhone and one with my OM-D, the OM-D file will not load, the iPhone shot gets there fine through WiFi.

Running on a MacBook Pro Mid 2010

MacOS Sierra 10.12.6

Lightroom Classic CC updated very recently

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Randy Hufford

Community Expert

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It solved my issues. Hope this helps.

dj_paige

Legend

You are getting this error message because the selected Destination folder does not have write permission. The reason you can write other photos to this folder is because somehow, accidentally, the OM-D and the cell phone photos are not being imported to the same Destination folder. You need to change the destination folder in the Import dialog box when you import the OM-D to the same location as when you import from the cell phone, or change the permissions on this folder.

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MIT-MikeGAuthor

Inspiring

Yup, logically it sure sounds like a permissions problem with a folder. But I've checked multiple times and both the iPhone imports and OM-D imports are set up exactly the same way. Have been for many months. They always go into the same yyyy/mm/dd folders, but just yesterday (after a gap of a week or two of shooting with the OM-D) the OM-D files no longer will upload.

I'll look yet again - and I'm getting a friend to look with me.

I'd also like to say that I am a member of a camera club and at least two other members have recently had issues with importing to Lightroom, not the same issue as mine, but similar. One person is resorting to frequent hard restarts of his iMac and another is copying her SD cards onto her hard drive, then importing them from there because importing directly from the SD cards has become unreliable.

dj_paige

Legend

show us a screen capture of the Import dialog box when you attempt to import from OM-D

show us a screen capture of the permissions on the Destination folder for this import.

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MIT-MikeGAuthor

Inspiring

Just to clarify: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC, 7.3.1 Release, Camera Raw 10.3

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