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🔎 Quick Tips: How to give Full Disk Access to Lightroom Classic on macOS

Adobe Employee ,
Apr 29, 2022 Apr 29, 2022

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How to provide Full Disk Access on macOS

 

Since macOS 10.14 (Mojave), Apple introduced a new privacy structure to help ensure that all applications obtain user consent before accessing documents, downloads, desktop, iCloud Drive, and network volumes. This has been reinforced in newer versions of macOS. This change prevents unauthorized access to user files and folders.


When Full Disk access & Accessibility permissions are needed, users may be asked to or be required to change the setting in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy for Lightroom Classic manually.   

While for the File & Folders access, the user is prompted to allow or deny when needed. 

 

Why provide full disk access to Lightroom Classic?

Insufficient or broken permissions may restrict Lightroom Classic from functioning correctly and break your workflows. All tasks that require access to the computer's storage importing/exporting images, cross-app workflows, reading/writing metadata,  and more, behave unexpectedly. It may also lead to missing images, performance issues, unexpected sync issues, and random app crash on launch or while working on a file. 

 

Watch this video for the steps:

 

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Quick steps to enable full disk access and grant permissions to Lightroom Classic

 Follow these steps to prevent the permissions issues from occurring: 

 

❶  Go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Click the Lock icon > Authorize via password > Unlock the lock to allow changes to system settings. 

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  Add Lightroom Classic by clicking on the (+) button & navigate to the Applications folder on macOS.

 

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  Go to Full Disk Access and add Lightroom Classic by clicking on the (+) button & navigate to the Applications folder on macOS.
Note: Adding Lightroom Classic under Full Disk Access overrides Files and Folders settings. 

 

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  Click the Lock icon to save the changes. Restart your computer to see the applied changes. 

 

 

Stay tuned for more tips to come.

 

Related links:

Lightroom Classic system requirements 

Quick Tips: Optimize LrC preferences for better performance 

Basic troubleshooting steps to fix issues in Lightroom Classic 

 

 

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New Here ,
Apr 16, 2022 Apr 16, 2022

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John Rellis-did a great job fixing a very irritating issue. Cause still remains a mystery. Key is must have LR and PS listed under Full Access if not there must add and must open lock at bottom of page before can activate anything. GRR

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Apr 21, 2022 Apr 21, 2022

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Thank you John, I was getting worried! STAR!

 

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Apr 24, 2022 Apr 24, 2022

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Thank you so much!!!! It worked!

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May 06, 2022 May 06, 2022

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yep! nailed it - thanks mate - worked first time!

 

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May 08, 2022 May 08, 2022

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Thankyou! Finally something that worked!!!! Lifesaver. 

 

Adobe really need to fix this issue! 

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May 09, 2022 May 09, 2022

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@kimberleyf47967911 wrote:

Thankyou! Finally something that worked!!!! Lifesaver. 

 

Adobe really need to fix this issue! 



I'm not sure Adobe can fix this. This is an Apple issue.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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May 14, 2022 May 14, 2022

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Its not really an Adobe issue from what I can see. Many other applications I have installed also require you to allow full disk access. Just the nature of the Operating System.

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May 13, 2022 May 13, 2022

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Thank you John you legend, i lost so much time trying to work this out until I saw your post! 

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Apr 16, 2022 Apr 16, 2022

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I agree with Kent and John, as a single user on my desktop computer I am comfortable with setting my Adobe apps with "Full disk access". Selected this option a couple years ago.

 

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5, Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; Camera OM-D E-M1

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Jun 01, 2022 Jun 01, 2022

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This was the step required for me to get going again.

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May 01, 2022 May 01, 2022

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THANK YOU !!!

 

ADOBE needs to HIRE YOU on the SPOT !!!

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Tx much-glad it helped-amazing how frustrating these little things can be!!

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Aug 02, 2022 Aug 02, 2022

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Thank you!

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Apr 15, 2022 Apr 15, 2022

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Solved. The Full Disc Access solution is working for me. 

 

Thanks to everyone for all their help!

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Apr 20, 2022 Apr 20, 2022

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Thank you, it worked.

Karine

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May 06, 2022 May 06, 2022

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Yes - it is an unexpected extra step that we did not have to do before. 

One thing to remember though is that almost every application I have installed, from Adobe and others, on the newer systems requires this step!!!

I have done several complete clean installs of Monterey on my own and several friends computers, and then re installed all their software, and almost every application required this step to complete.

The NEW normal!

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May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022

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Hi John, Im going thru the same issue but when I click on the + I dont get the Applications> adobe Lightroom Classic option ?

 

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May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022

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"Im going thru the same issue but when I click on the + I dont get the Applications> adobe Lightroom Classic option ?"

 

Please post a full-resolution screenshot of what you see after you click +.

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May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022

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So if I understand you correctly, you go to the System Preferenes, then select Security & Privcay, then  Select FUll Disk Access in the left colum and then unlock the lock at the bottom left of the full window. In the scrollable pane on the right, have you looked for the Lightroom Classic? Mine in this screen shot is already checked as it should be. 

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May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022

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If yours is not checked, just click the blank checkbox next to it.

 

 

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May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022

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CLikcin ghte Plus sign under the right side pane, takes you to a window where you can select Applications, and then if you select Lightroom Classic, you could click the Open button which would be available.

 

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Theoretically you should not need to go to that step because if you installed Lightroom Classic it should appear in the SYstem Preferences Security window under full disk access.

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Apple changed the security requirements. When Lightroom Classic was installed, adding it to 'Files and Folders' was enough, so that is what the installer normally did. A fresh install should indeed not force you to do this, but an update could and even without updating Lightroom Classic you could get this problem, because it's MacOS that changed things.

 

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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Thank you for that explanation, Johan!!

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Monterey 12.3 beta M1 Macbook Pro

Lightroom Classic 11.2

OWC 6.2.1

When I try to open an existing catalog on external drive Thunderbay I have the following error:

"The Lightroom catalog cannot be used because the parent folder “/Volumes/ThunderBay/2021_Christmas_Card/2021_Christmas_Card” does not allow files to be created within it." This error is reported no matter the particular Lightroom catalog. It goes on to say it is a permissions problem. 

 

I have determined it is not a permissions problem. This has been confirm both by Apple tech support and Indiana University tech support. 

Further, Lightroom can create a new catalog on Thunderbay and it subsequently opens normally.

Steps I have taken.

1. I have manually reset permissions according to Adobe suggestion before posting here.

2. I have conferred with Apple tech support that determined permission were correct.

3. I called Adobe tech support who refused to talk to me since I got my Lightroom through

Indiana University. Adobe said talk to Indiana University tech support.

4. I spent about two hours with Indiana University tech support and they gave up. They suggested I contact OWC, the manufacturer of the drive.

5. I contacted OWC tech support and followed their instructions to send a tech report from their softwore from my computer. I did. OWC is not familiar with Lightroom. OWC has no solution.

 

a. I can make a new catelog on the drive and it works properly. 

b. I can copy a catalog that doesn't open from the drive to my Macbook Pro and it opens properly. I can copy the very same file back to the external Thunderbay drive and it won't open.

c. Lightroom can update and open older catalogs from an external drive that is not a raid array.

 

I conclude that Lightroom has some bug in interfacing with a OWC raid array. 

Adobe tech support won't talk to me and Apple, Indiana University and OWC have given up.

 

I hope someone reading this has a viable solution.

Jim Brown

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