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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: DougL on December 25, 2008, 01:51:03 pm
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I have Lightroom 2.2 on an IMac. I have 4 external drives connected, all of which appear on the desktop.
In attempting to back up my Lightroom catalogue, I get this error message:
"We're sorry, Lightroom was unable to back up the catalogue <filename>. You may wish to check folder permissions or available space."
When I choose a different external drive, I get the same message. All the drives have a lot of free space. Searching the net for this message gives me no hits.
Any advice?
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My bad. The error is with my Mac, not with Lightroom.
I bought a new Western Digital external drive. I assume it was FAT32 formatted, as it accepted files from the Mac (it has never been connected to a PC).
For no apparent reason and without any obvious notice, it became a read-only drive, although it retained its FAT32 format. I will move the existing data and reformat. I suspect this will fix it.
The upside to all this is that I have learned a fair bit about PC and Mac formatting schemes for external hard drives.