Lightroom classic 8.2.1 - Photos have read-only access

[miroslavd47537441]

Photos have read-only access

I upgraded from Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 to CC subscription Lightroom Classic 8.2.1.

My images are stored on internal hard drive.

With Lightroom 5.7 I have no problem to write metadata into photos. However, when I try the same with Lightroom classic 8.2.1, I'm getting error - photos have read-only access.

But when I check photos, the check mark for "read-only" is unchecked.

Permissions - I'm the only user (administrator), and all of principals (windows 10) have full access to image files.

After trying a lot of things (changing permissions, installing/un-installing lightroom, creating new catalogs, ..) I finally figured out what is the problem:

My image files are on virtual drive. I created virtual drive using DOS command "subst" (historical reasons; subst D: G:\...\....\....\Photos ).

Lightroom 5.7 doesn't have any problem with such created virtual drive, can write metadata into jpg files, but Lightroom Classic (newest version) can't. Always getting message "Photos have read-only access".

If I dismount the virtual drive and point the Lightroom Classic 8.2.1 catalog folder to the real location of photos, then the metadata writing works.

So my questions are:

• is this a bug in Lightroom Classic 8.2.1 that it sees jpg files on virtual drive as "read-only" or is this intentional? Lightroom 5.7 has no problem with it.
• Is there some way around this issue so I can continue using my virtual drive? (a lot of my applications are dependent on it).

[erikw21487043]

I have the same problem, no idea how to fix this

[warshado@gmail.com]

me too

[erikw21487043]

I also have trouble with this. 

[GoldingD]

Two year old posting with no solution, Original poster may have fixed or moved on, who knows.

No idea what the Operating System is for any of the people posting.

Please post your own problem. When you do include the following:

• Complete Adobe program name and vetsion
• Complete Operating System name and version
• CPU info
• RAM info
• Any error message you get
• Any screenshots that might help

This community site does not work all that well to Me To postings, largely a member issue.

[warshado@gmail.com]

I have had problems with this for years.  when attempting to save metadata lightroom . first it gives me a message that an unknown error was encounter while trying to save metadata then it

gives me an error saying I have read only access.

Using windows 10

custom built machine from Puget systems

plenty of ram

not on external drive

Lightroom 11.0

[wojtekk550i]

Here's what help me:

Open Lightroom, go to Edit -> Catalog ->

Here's what help me:

Open Lightroom, go to Edit -> Catalog -> Metadata

In "Editing" window uncheck "Automatically write changes into XMP"

Next step is to click on the icon showing problem on Your photo and choose option that You want ("Import Settings from Disk" or "Retry Metadata Export") and it's done.

In "Editing" window uncheck "Automatically write changes into XMP"

Next step is to click on the icon showing problem on Your photo and choose option that You want (Import Settings from Disk or Retry Metadata Export) and it's done.