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importing into lightroom catalog on a mac

Feb 21, 2012 7:24 PM

I just moved my lightroom catalog on an external drive to a mac from a pc.  I got the entire catalog moved with no issues or problems except for this.  When I try to import new photos i get a message saying that the file cannont be read and that the files were not imported.  Has anyone else run into this issue while using a mac?  Thanks for any help

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  • John Blair
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    1. John Blair,
    Feb 21, 2012 8:35 PM   in reply to pmeshanic
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    How did you format the external drive?  It needs to be FAT32 if you want it to be able to be read and written by both PC and Mac.  Sometimes when LR says "cannot be read" it also or instead means "cannot be written".

     

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    John G. Blair Studio

    Occidental, California

     
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    2. pmeshanic,
    Feb 22, 2012 7:02 PM   in reply to John Blair
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    it was in nfts format, i just changed it over to the newer version of fats32 and will let you know how that works as soon as I am able to work with it again.  Thank you for the suggestion....

     
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    3. pmeshanic,
    Feb 29, 2012 10:31 AM   in reply to John Blair
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    it worked like a  charm,, thank you so much for the assistance.  I appreciate it!!!!

     
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    4. pmeshanic,
    Mar 4, 2012 3:13 PM   in reply to pmeshanic
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    I just tried to import some new photos using the same external drives that I was successful with before, now they are giving me the same "cannot be written" message but all of the hard drives are formatted to fats...any other suggestions on what I can try next? 

     
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