No, I was clicking on a "gallery" in Smugmug, down in the Publish Services section on the left. Every so often when I go to drop a picture from a LR filmstrip into a gallery, Smugmug comes up and says there is a new version of the plugin. It only takes only a few seconds and it comes right back up ready to use, so I did it and I THINK that's when all the disk writing started. (The photos are stored on a Drobo.)
History: My Mac Pro desktop got too old and I got a new 16" MacBook Pro M1 Pro in late December, and it came with Monterey. I expected speed bumps, and a lot of it was just finding where they had hidden or changed things. Misc issued noted below.
Updated PS and LR as soon as I got the computer set up, and have done newer updates as they came out.
Updated the OS to 12.2.1 several days ago (after doing a clone) and no immediate difference in issues. Had updated to the newest Lr a few days before that, but now rolled back to 11.1. Today I will kill Pref's and redo. Some people say that fixed the writing issue. (I kept them when I did the rollback.)
I'm not sure but I think the problem with constant writing in updating published galleries from LR started a few days ago when I downloaded the newest Smugmug plugin.
I downloaded the new LRTimelapse and they say to do 2 things:
In Pref's > Presets, they said to UNcheck "Store Presets with this Catalog"
In Catalog Settings > Metadata, they said to UN check Automatically Write Changes into XMP."
These may be a problem for general use??? I have UNDONE them but it hasn't changed to constant writing to the Drobo.
Numerous and probably unrelated issues with the new OS, each of which took a LONG time to figure out:
I have a 27" NEC monitor cpnnected with an HTML cable, to save a USB-C port. Configuring it to mirror was a challenge and sometimes it drops off. Can't calibrate without a display port cable but should be able to do so soon with an OS fix.
Pictures files are on a Drobo 5C and it has always been hard to start. Have just ordered another PSU, in hopes to fix that issue. It won't mount when the computer reboots -- I don't even know if it should! So it is a continuous hassle. Sometimes the Drobo unmounts for no obvious reason -- that's new with the new computer.
Had to completely redo 2 8T ChronoSync backup disks of image files, due to the new OS. Each took over 2 days, then 2 4T drives of data files. (They are on iCloud but I want a physical backup. also.)
Had to figure out how to boot in safe mode with the new OS, to do a clone (SuperDuper!) then found out safe mode wasn't needed if it worked without it.
PS palettes won't stay put. Finally found to "lock" them but they came unlocked again somehow. Difference in res between laptop and NEC monitor may be an issue??
Nik and Topaz filters were buggy. Or maybe just Nik? Too busy to keep track of it -- seem to be working now.
WiFi won't stay on the preferred network -- the one the printer is on.
But all this isn't related to the current problem. Thanks for any information on the LR issue!