File seen as read only

Peter Sidell

• March 13, 2015 17:44

In trying to process some recent files I encountered the following error message:
Cannot process the current selection
Only editable, online variants can be processed.
Please select variants that can be processed.

I didn't think the files were write protected. They are on an external hard drive which I have used for C1 processing many times.
I checked the info on the individual files and according to the Mac finder they are both readable and writable.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to what to try next?
OsX Yosemite 10.10.3 (Yosemite beta with photos)
iMac retina

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • March 14, 2015 16:10

  If you run a catalog, you could move some images to your internal disk or inside the catalog for testing. Same with a session, actually.
  If it still does not work, I would make a new session/catalog and try with both internal/external images.
  
  Have not tried the 10.10.3 beta yet, so no experience with that. You are running CO Pro 8.1.1?
  
  By the way, is there any indicator in the image, like an Offline sign in the viewer or a pencil with red line in the browser?

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  Peter Sidell

  • March 14, 2015 19:54

  I believe I have solved the problem - at least in part.
  First the images do indeed have the pencil with the red line indicating read only. Yes I am running C1 Pro 8.1.1
  When I went back and looked at the external drives I have been using i discovered I actually have more than one copy of the catalog that was giving me problems.
  I found what appeared to be the most recent catalog on the hard drive where I had originally imported the images. When I opened that catalog none of the files showed read only.
  Next I transferred that catalog file to the other drive - my archival drive - and after opening it and then pointing it to the locations everything, including the ability to process seems to be working just fine.
  My guess is that I had modified something in the metadata or processing recipe of the files marked read only which caused the older catalog to consider them read only. Somehow the metadata and precessing recipes were out of synch (my guess.)
  I tried the synchronize option in the library module with the older library and that didn't help.
  I don't know if there is another way to recover from that kind of mistake.
  Obviously I need to keep my catalog files better organized and synchronized.
  
  One thing I did find confusing is that some of the old versions of the catalog were in dated folders that also contained folders labeled: cache and originals.
  Interestingly the library file that worked didn't have those associated folders.

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