Hi Larry,
Could it be that LR does not handle properly the expansion of "~" as the
home directory? (E.g. you need to surround it with quotation marks, or
something like that?)
Sorry, it was rather difficult to understand the step you were doing while
moving the directories - from your initial posting and from the support
ticket you filed with Adobe, but I think I've finally understood it from
your latest response to Godfrey.
I agree it is a weird behavior of LR.
I also had a big problem with LR and file systems: LR (on Windows) refused
to have its database (catalog) on the Windows network share. At least,
that was the case with LR 3.x. That prevented me from being able to work
with the same LR database conveniently from two computers (laptop that
went with me everywhere and a more powerful desktop that also had PS
installed on it), with the files sitting on the local file-server.
The only viable solution for that required using an external HDD.
I don't know if LR on Mac allowed the catalog on an NFS-mounted partition.
I actually wonder if the limitations I described might be the reason for
how LR on Mac works with the softlinks to the directory.
Good luck!
Igor
Larry Colen Mon, Feb 14, 2022 5:48 PM wrote:
I just did a test. My home directory /Users/lrc is symbolically linked to
/Volume/ssd_raid/Users/lrc.
If instead of pointing lightroom at ~/photos_fresh I point it to
/Volume/ssd_raid/Users/lrc/photos_fresh
I can move files from there to my archive drive without problems.
Lightroom breaks on symbolic links.
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