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Read only icon on my files, please help

Daniel Salazar
hi all, after an issue with my drive, I am getting on some of my pictures on the drive where I have a backup of my RAW Files a read only icon. this means according to phase one:
"A crossed over pencil will appear in the bottom right corner of an image if a file is unsupported or if you don’t have the access rights to edit a file. You might see this read-only icon if you try to edit images files located on a camera or a CD.
Note: JPEG files will have a read-only icon if the Enable JPEG Editing option is unchecked. "

Now my question would be, how can I change this?, I cannot process the files nor create a new variant or export, nothing.

Please help! I've reviewed my privileges on the drive and re-assigned read & write and apply them. Until now, not working.

Cheers,
Daniel
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Hi Daniel,

    had a similar issue a few days ago. Are your files located on an external drive? Mine were, and I solved the issue by simply moving them to an internal drive and afterwards back to the external one.

    Regards,
    Joerg
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  • Daniel Salazar
    yes, I have them in two different external drives and both show the same.
    I will try doing what you did. Will keep this thread updated.
    What I don't understand is the sudden behaviour.
    Did something particular happened to you before this?
    To me, I had a corrupted drive on a RAID 5.
    cheers,
    Daniel
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  • SFA
    Daniel,

    You don't say whether you are using a catalog or a session but either way my guess would be that your disk problems have in some way broken the internal index links for the catalog/session database. Possibly the disk has a different internal name now ..... there are all sorts of possibilities.

    Joerg's solution sounds simple to execute.

    Otherwise it would be a matter of re-connecting the files to the catalog using the option provided or doing something similar in a session - perhaps re-establish a "Favourite" or simply navigate to the folder location on the drive and take things from there.

    If that does not help then it probably is a "permissions" thing that seems to come up quite frequently on Macs.


    Grant
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  • Permanently deleted user
    I had used the external drive formatted in NTFS together with Paragon NTFS. That caused kernel panics and I decided to use ExFAT in the future. Formatted all my drives to this file system and in one directory where Paragon NTFS shot down my Mac I had the described issue. For testing purposes I would recommend experimenting not with all images, but with a few first. If it works (what I guess), you can use this workaround with the all images.

    Regards,
    Joerg
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  • Daniel Salazar
    I am using a catalog and I already rebuild permissions. Weird is, this is happening just with several files and not with all of them.

    What I also did, I copied the files that have the problem to the same location, duplicating them and adding them into the catalog. This let me use the files, the problem is, all my corrections, keywording, etc cannot apply it, I have to start all over again. This could mean that the problem is caused by the XMP sidecar and not by the RAW file.
    Cheers,
    Daniel
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  • Zwilla
    [quote="dasle" wrote:

    Note: JPEG files will have a read-only icon if the Enable JPEG Editing option is unchecked. "
    l

    my jpeg files on my macbook, what now.
    Where can I found the option?

    thx

    upps, I found it and it works 😄
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  • artemesia66
    I recently had this issue with a folder of images in my catalogue. No idea how it happened in the first place, but I solved it by removing the images from the catalogue (without deleting them) and then syncing the folder, which re-imported them.
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  • Ade Hodgetts
    [quote="Zwilla" wrote:
    [quote="dasle" wrote:

    Note: JPEG files will have a read-only icon if the Enable JPEG Editing option is unchecked. "
    l

    my jpeg files on my macbook, what now.
    Where can I found the option?

    thx

    upps, I found it and it works 😄


    Hi

    Can you tell me were you found Enable JPEG Editing.....can't find it?
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="LongSticks" wrote:
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    Can you tell me were you found Enable JPEG Editing.....can't find it?

    You can find it in Preferences > Image tab
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