Photo Mark
New Member
- Joined
- Sep 29, 2018
- Messages
- 2
- Lightroom Experience
- Beginner
- Lightroom Version
- 5.x
- Operating System
Hi everyone. This is my first post. I have been using LR 5.7 on an Apple Mac with Sierra OS for 2-3 years but still feel like a novice! I have trawled through several forums, problems statement and helpful answers but still have a problem - which is this:
The hard drive with all my photos recently died, but I had copies of almost all on a Time Machine Backup drive.
I used Lightroom import to copy them onto a new external HDD (I used copy on Import so as not to ensure I kept and did not jeopardize the backed up files.
However I cannot now move them or delete them from the new external HDD using Lightroom. Regular "Delete from disk" and even using CMD-Option-Shift-Delete leads to an error message: "The file xxx could not be moved to the Trash Folder". Marking them as rejected and then trying to delete them does not work either. I have tried copying a folder of photos to my Mac HD to work with, but LR can't move them.
My external HDD does support trash. I have already used Finder to create and delete a folder in my Pictures folder - but it didn't fix the issue.
Is there something I can do to fix this? Happy to have any suggestions! Thanks in advance
The hard drive with all my photos recently died, but I had copies of almost all on a Time Machine Backup drive.
I used Lightroom import to copy them onto a new external HDD (I used copy on Import so as not to ensure I kept and did not jeopardize the backed up files.
However I cannot now move them or delete them from the new external HDD using Lightroom. Regular "Delete from disk" and even using CMD-Option-Shift-Delete leads to an error message: "The file xxx could not be moved to the Trash Folder". Marking them as rejected and then trying to delete them does not work either. I have tried copying a folder of photos to my Mac HD to work with, but LR can't move them.
My external HDD does support trash. I have already used Finder to create and delete a folder in my Pictures folder - but it didn't fix the issue.
Is there something I can do to fix this? Happy to have any suggestions! Thanks in advance