Cannot edit photos with Luminar 4 on latest update of Big Sur
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My Mac recently updated to 11.1 of Big Sur and I am running Luminar 4.3.2. I can no longer edit my photos in Luminar 4.
I see triangle with an exclamation mark in the middle located in the upper left of photos. They appear in my library and on the screen when I try to edit a specific photo. I also see the same icon in front of all of my Folders in right pane of the Library view.
In the past, I have seen this when Luminar 4 could not find a photo on the disk.
Actions I took:
- I verified that my photos are still in the same location
- I manually added Full Disk Access for Luminar 4 in the Privacy Settings, but that did not help
It would appear there is an incompatibility between Luminar 4.3.2 and the Big Sur 11.1.
Please advise.
Thank you,
Lance
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Hi Lance,
Is the folder you tried to locate a system one? (e.g. Pictures, Desktop, Documents, etc.)
Please reach our team at https://skylum.com/support and provide a screenshot of your Catalog file structure: http://prntscr.com/w77shs
I may suggest creating an empty folder on your computer and copy / move all the files located in the lost folder there. After this, in Luminar right-click the lost folder > Locate Folder > select the newly created folder that contains all the files from the lost folder.
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My photos reside in a structure under my Pictures directory located in my home directory: ~/Pictures/Photos
For clarity, I used Luminar 4 the day before the Big Sur update to 11.1 and it worked fine. I tried to use Luminar 4 the day after the Big Sur update to 11.1 and I had this problem.
Your suggestion to move / copy is not feasible, unless it is a guaranteed solution. My photo library is 600gb in size. That will trigger an arbitrary massive Time Machine event.
If that is the solution, I would like an articulation as to what happened and why that solves the problem because it will cause me to loose data on my backup as Time Machine will discard other backups.
Also, since I granted Luminar full disk access, accessing the files in my home directory should not be an issue. There is something else going on with your software.
While I appreciate the privacy, there is nothing concerning to me about posting the screenshot in this context.
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I experimented with this Sklyum problem with Big Sur by turning off Time Machine and renaming the folder with pictures from "Photos" to "myphotos". I then did the "Locate Folder" in Luminar 4 to point to the renamed directory and Luminar 4 worked as expected.
I then renamed the directory back to "Photos" and now Luminar 4 crashes on launch.
PLEASE NOTE SKYLUM: None of this was an issue until the 11.1 update of Big Sur. It would seem that you still have issues with Big Sur.
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Interestingly, I downloaded the On1 Raw trial today and it had absolutely no issue loading and editing my photos exactly where they reside: ~/Pictures/Photos
By comparison, Luminar 4 just crashes now.
Wonder what it will take for Skylum to acknowledge their support for Big Sir is lacking...
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