I am running the latest version of Lightroom and have suddenly, just today, started getting this error. Nothing about my PC has changed. I can't export ANYTHING to anywhere on the C drive. I simply get the error message "the file could not be written". I am the only user on the PC and am also the administrator -
I am running Windows 8 Release Preview 64bit with latest version of Lightroom.
Other PC specs:
AMD FX-4100 @ 3.6GHz
16GB DDR3 RAM
Asus 560 Ti DIRECTUCUII @ 930Hz
168GB hard drive (Ancient)
Yesterday Lightroom 5 worked fine. This morning, nothing will export, with the message "The file could not be written." This applies to dng and jpg files. Nothing has changed as the computer was shut down overnight. My HD has 98% (1.97 TB) space available and I have Mac OS X 10.8.5. I recently upgraded to LR5. Neither new files nor old files (on another HD) can be opened, although all files could be opened yesterday. What can I do?
When exporting from LR 4.4 (and 4.3) as a jpeg, "file could not be written" appears when saving to main hard drive. Exporting to a thumb drive or external drive of any kind works fine.
When I attempt to export a group of approximately 50 photos from LR4, a window opens at the end of the process saying "The file could not be written" along with a list of approximately 10-15 NEF file names. I have never had a problem exporting before, but I recently started storing my LR catalog and files on an external USB 3.0 drive.
Here are the details:LR4 with latest updatesWin 7 with latest updatesLR catalog and photo files stored on external USB 3.0 G: driveTrying to export to a folder on my desktop on C: drive (46GB free out of 134GB, solid state drive)LR files are NEF, exported files are JPGI've tried to export to the same group of photos multiple times with different names and different output file sizes (8MB, 5MB, 2MB). Each time the list of failures is different.Some of the thumbnails which appear in Windows Explorer are corrupted (part of the thumbnail is gray)When I try to export the same group of photos to the external USB 3.0, it works perfectly!
Here is an example of one of the LR log files:
The file could not be written. (17) G:2013Stratton and Colorado20132013-06-23\_D7K1915.NEF G:2013Stratton and Colorado20132013-06-23\_D7K1918.NEF G:2013Stratton and Colorado20132013-06-23\_D7K1919.NEF G:2013Stratton and Colorado20132013-06-23\_D7K1939.NEF G:2013Stratton and Colorado20132013-06-23\_D7K1948.NEF
I am new to Lightroom and evalutating 3.6 on a trial.I performed the following test:
1. Imported 3 pictures into Lightroom from my hard drive 2. In Lightroom, I made a keyword change to one photo (removed a keyword). 3. All three photos' Metadata icon show the arrow, indicating that there has been a change. (I only changed the keyword on one photo.) 4. I click the icon for the photo whose keyword I changed. 5. I get the message "The metadata for this photo has been changed in Lightroom. Save the changes to disk?" 6. I click "Yes". 7. The photo's Metadata icon shows an exclamation point. When you hover over the exclamation point, it shows the message "Sidecar has conflict".
I have two questions:
1. My expectation is that when I changed a keyword, or any other metadata, in LR, it will show up on the photo outside of LR. My understanding is that this is a functionality of LR. Am I wrong? (The Help files seem to indicate that this is a reasonable expectation.) 2. I am assuming, having read many posts on the forum, that the error message "Sidecar has conflict" is a bug. Am I right? (My understanding is that JPEGs don't have sidecar files, which just makes this message even more odd.)
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