P: Lightroom Desktop Keeps saying 'Unable to Connect to Network'

Try and check privilege for your pictures folder or folder where you have LR catalogue (right click > get info or commmand+i on folder).

See 2 posts above..

Hope it helps.

Hello I can't work with the Lightroom because it's always telling me that the program can't connect to the server, I had already seen others complaining about the same error and try a lot of the sugestions that were made here in the forum, but nothing works out. I'm using it in the Macof my company with the lightroom latest version and our IT department also can not fixed it.
What can I do? This is the only program from the Creative Cloud that's making this error.

Hi I'm having the same issue I uninstall the software I even installed and lower version and I'm still getting the same issue can't connect to server. This all happened after I deleted the pictures in one bit Lightroom folders because for some reason I am unable to delete it any pictures in Lightroom and my memory is full. So after I cleared my memory the software won't work no more I need help

This worked for me! Thank you so so much. Been trying to fix this for 2 days with no luck.

You are my man!! Thank you for sharing this!

I am running Lightroom CC 5.3 on Big Sur and had the same "Unable to connect server" message.

I checked my Picture folder Privileges and noticed that for my admin username  I had a spinning circle saying "obtainig" instead of read/write. So I deleted that username and added it again setting privileges to Read/Write and applying to all files and folders contained (by clicking the circled three dots just down below). Lightroom got back working right away!

You are my man!!! Thank you so much for sharing this, it solved my problem!

I had a spinning "obtaining" in my admin username priviliges inside "Get info" for Pictures folder.  So I removed that user and readded the administrator with read/write privileges and clicked on the circled three dots just down below to apply to all folder included elements et voila! Worked for me right away!

It is weird that Lightroom (CC in my case) cannot output the error message about inconsistencies in Picture folder privileges.

I am running Lightroom version 5.3 on my Mac running macOS Monterey version 12.3.1. I have run Creative Cloud and allowed it to do all of the latest updates to Lightroom, Photoshop and Camera Raw. When I launch LightRoom I still receive "Can't connect to the server. Lightroom is having trouble connecting to the server. Please try again later." Then it immedately closes after a couple of seconds. I have no opportunity to look at settings or anything in the application.

Steve

I had this problem some time ago. For me there was a specific cause in that the Pictures folder on my mac was read only so that Lightroom was unable to write it's library file there. Once I gave Lightroom permissin to write there the issue was solved. It would be nice if one could specify the location of this file but it seems you can't. Also this error message can be very misleading as for me had nothing to do with network problems.

How did you correct this?

Steve