I switched from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom (on my Windows desktop) last year, but I still edit all of my files locally on my PC with no issues. Since the most recent update (7.3), as I am going through my photos and flagging them, I will get the following message on a few random pictures: "File is not editable Lightroom cannot save edits to "filename.jpg" because it is read only. Please change the permissions and try again or import files to the cloud." All of the files in the folder have the same permissions, none are set to read-only, and it does let me edit - it is more of an inconvenience of having to click ok on the box as I am going through the pictures.
I can't even see half the files on my computer when browsing locally with LR. Never gotten an answer on why. It's infurating. Would love to see a solution since it seems to be a common complaint.
Lightroom Classic has imported all my photos and organised as per date folders...
But I've recently started taking pics in NEF (raw) and JPG. (my nikon needs JPG to send previews to my phone)
For obvious reasons I only edit raw, but I've realised it is trying to save the edit as JPG when the (original) JPG already exists with the same file name.
Thanks for the reply, but that is different from what I am getting - I am using Lightroom (not Classic), and I only work with JPG files, and I randomly get this message one a few pictures each time I am going through and marking the ones I plan on editing...
I am having the same problem. I had this back in April or May and reverted back to the older version and everything was fine again. Now months later I decided to update to the lateset version and now I am back to the same issue. File is not editable. The message really slows down the process of going through photos. If I don't see an update or solution soon, I will be reverting back to the older version.
I'm attempting to see if I can preview and pre-edit my files in Lr on my local disk and then do further edits in LrC. Same problem as outlined above - "File is not editable". Of course it isn't - Lr is supposed to produce a sidecar file with the edits! It seems to produce the .xmp, but every time I edit the photo I get the same error message. Lr is unusable for my use case - returning to using FastRawViewer for preedit and then import to LrC. Per other posts in this thread, Adobe induced this error in an update.
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