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Hi - I'm running Adobe Lightroom 6.14 on Mac OS 10.13.5. Have recently encountered issues in importing pictures into Lightroom from both external card and even from another subfolder under Pictures. Lightroom does not import any images and reports "Could not copy a file to the destination folder because it is not writable."
I have confirmed that I have "read & write" authorization for Pictures and its subfolders, and I can manually copy a picture into the Pictures>2018 folder and I'm able to create a new subfolder for the relevant day. Permissions on the drive have been checked/repaired. Disk Utility First Aid didn't find any issues either.
Everything was working fine until about May 20 (date of last picture imports). Since then, no updates to Lightroom until the issue appeared. Sounds like a Mac issue, but don't know what it could be.
Has anyone encountered the same issue?
Thanks,
Christian
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Are you able to import directly from pictures using “Add” rather than “Copy” in the import dialog?
If you expand the Destination panel on the right can you select the 2018 sub-folder?
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Hi - That worked! Rather than selecting the main hard drive as in the past, I selected the Pictures folder, and then Lightroom was able to create the subfolders under Pictures>2018, and import (copy) the photos into the library. Thanks!
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Do you have the 'Make Second Copy to...' option in the Import dialog checked? Maybe that destination is not writable for some reason.
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Hi - Nope, had not checked that option. Thanks though.
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I realise it can be difficult to duplicate an unwanted fault, but can you post a screen shot of the LR error message Christian?
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Thanks everybody!