Hello everyone. Maybe a stupid question, but at the moment I cannot find anything inside my external HD when in PL7. The external HD is showing inside “Devices” in PL (as does “Macintosh HD”), but it’ s impossible to open it’ s contents (message I get: “This folder does not contain any image” ).
I’ m sure that not too long ago I could work of this external directly in PL. I still can see all my images (and other backups) placed in that external hard disk when opening Finder.
I probably do doing something wrong now?
All tips/advice very welcome!
Just to clarify ; Under “Devices” in PL7.2.0 I can see my external HD. There’ s no way to see (sub)folders inside it…no way to open this “Device” , as I can with Macintosh HD. In the past I could open External HD…go to a photos folder inside it…open it and choose specific folder to open images.
Inside PhotoLibrary I can see:
“Recent Searches”
“Folders”
“Devices” (here there are 2; external HD + Macintosh HD).
“Projects”
Am I missing something?
I really hope someone can give me advice on how to solve this.
Full disk access is not necessary. If you delete the entry (or the one in “Files and Folders”), macOS will ask you to set rights when necessary. Answered once, it will not ask again, so think carefully what your needs for security or convenience are.
Note that a time machine backup drive is blocked by respective access rights.
And then…strange that I can access and open images directly from my external HD when I work in Affinity Photo / Pixelmator Pro / ApolloOne/…
Maybe this points towards something wrong inside PL??
There aren’t any folders inside my “Lacie d2 Professional 10Tb” (my external HD)…so nothing to open!
This must be the definition of stupidity!!
I simply didn’ t think of those access rights! First thing I should have done…instead of panicking!
Feels like shooting a major event without any sd card…pfff…very embarrassing!
Thank you platypus/ Required and Joanna!
All is well now.
Well, after my third iMac, I like to think I’m (a bit) familiar with macOS
That’ s exactly why I consider this pretty stupid…I simply didn’t think of this.
And yes…there are more ways to demonstrate stupidity. I’ll not even try to mention the mistakes I made in photography
But then…it all started again!
No access to external HD…what?? Again??
I HAVE given PhotoLab access rights for o the drive in the security and integrity settings in macOS…and it worked perfectly fine for all day.
Then…shutting PL…and wanting to start again…same problem…I cannot open external HD!
Grrrrr…i’m puzzled…again!
It looks like I need step by step guidance here.
and then…I just disconnected my external HD. Waited for a few minutes. Connected again. Opened PL7 (version 7.2.0), and then…voilà…it’s there again and I can open it again. Seems good now.
That’ s strange, because before I could get into external from other photo programs…just not from PL.
So, I’m waiting for the next time this happens again…probably will be continued…
Is the format of your external Drive on NTFS or on ExFat. As NTFS is for Windows and Mac cannot write on it, only read. The best way to use as well on Win and on Mac is to have external drives in ExFat. Take a look at it as it may be the solution.
thank you dAprilli. External drive is formatted as it should be.
All is (still) well now. I probably have changed a setting somewhere I cannot remember. I think it will stay ok; opened and closed many times since the day before yesterday and I can work from external HD like it used to be. So…problem solved.
I know! Frustratin’ Ain’t it? I have an external drive that randomly(seemingly) disappears from some program I’m using. Fortunately, I just go to This PC and there it is.