FYI - Lightroom and Mac OS Catalina Issues (Adobe addressing): Last two days (after Catalina upgrade) in Lightroom, I came across 2 issues. 1) importing files through File>Import Files...

Bogin Bob Loc: Tampa Bay, Florida

Last two days (after Catalina upgrade) in Lightroom, I came across 2 issues.
1) importing files through File>Import Files and Videos ... I have 8 Macintosh HD drives visible as a source
2) the USB slots on the MacBook Pro do not recognize adapters or card readers

Adobe Support this morning confirmed these are 2 of many issues with Catalina
See https://helpx.adobe.com/in/lightroom-cc/kb/known-issues.html#sa_src=web-messaging

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

Bogin Bob wrote:

Last two days (after Catalina upgrade) in Lightroom, I came across 2 issues.
1) importing files through File>Import Files and Videos ... I have 8 Macintosh HD drives visible as a source
2) the USB slots on the MacBook Pro do not recognize adapters or card readers

Adobe Support this morning confirmed these are 2 of many issues with Catalina
See https://helpx.adobe.com/in/lightroom-cc/kb/known-issues.html#sa_src=web-messaging

Please confirm that this applies to LR and not LR Classic, since I had planned to install Catalina on my computers today. If the problem does affect LR Classic, I will hold off on the OS upgrade.

Thank you.

coolhanduke Loc: Redondo Beach, CA

I just purchased the new MacBook Pro 16". I started a clean install with all software. There are a number of issues surfacing with various software.

I was on the phone with Apple for half an hour with Spotify issues. Never resolved.

Did a clean download of PS and LR CC. If you have an auxiliary drive plugged into the Mac, Bridge does not see it. You have to copy files to the desktop to work on them.

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

Bogin Bob wrote:

Last two days (after Catalina upgrade) in Lightroom, I came across 2 issues.
1) importing files through File>Import Files and Videos ... I have 8 Macintosh HD drives visible as a source
2) the USB slots on the MacBook Pro do not recognize adapters or card readers

Adobe Support this morning confirmed these are 2 of many issues with Catalina
See https://helpx.adobe.com/in/lightroom-cc/kb/known-issues.html#sa_src=web-messaging

Here's another good info source: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/whats-new-in-lightroom-classic-9-1/?utm_source=The+Lightroom+Queen&utm_campaign=ffa4f70ce5-Newsletter_2019_08_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4d9d446d9f-ffa4f70ce5-341147013&mc_cid=ffa4f70ce5&mc_eid=f6504c4984

Bogin Bob Loc: Tampa Bay, Florida

Check the link ... the issues I have are with Adobe Lightroom CC ... I see today Adobe releases 9.1 ... bug fixes

rdistlerath

My new MacBook Pro works fine with Bridge on the old operating system. Once upgraded to Catalina, the spacebar command in Bridge no longer brought up full screen images. Some inherent conflict. Removed Catalina and restored old system and all works now.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

coolhanduke wrote:

I just purchased the new MacBook Pro 16". I started a clean install with all software. There are a number of issues surfacing with various software.

I was on the phone with Apple for half an hour with Spotify issues. Never resolved.

Did a clean download of PS and LR CC. If you have an auxiliary drive plugged into the Mac, Bridge does not see it. You have to copy files to the desktop to work on them.

Is the external drive formatted as APFS or MacOS Extended, Journaled, or some Windows standard? It is entirely possible that Adobe has issues with a particular drive format. Indeed, it cannot migrate images from a drive with READ ONLY access.

(APFS is Apple's new standard. MacOS is somewhat backward compatible with MacOS Extended, Journaled. It reads and writes ExFAT and other FAT versions, reads NTFS, and writes NTFS only if you enable Apple's experimental support feature for it, or you install Paragon NTFS or some other third party solution.)

bonjac Loc: Santa Ynez, CA 93460

bpulv wrote:

Please confirm that this applies to LR and not LR Classic, since I had planned to install Catalina on my computers today. If the problem does affect LR Classic, I will hold off on the OS upgrade.

Thank you.

From my own experience, I upgraded to Catalina only to find the my LR Classic (version 6) would not open. Rather I was instructed to uninstall LR Classic and then re-install. I did uninstall but could not re-install. I spent over an hour and a half in the adobe quagmire and never did figure it out. Adobe Support was useless. I am now trying to decide what to do.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

bonjac wrote:

From my own experience, I upgraded to Catalina only to find the my LR Classic (version 6) would not open. Rather I was instructed to uninstall LR Classic and then re-install. I did uninstall but could not re-install. I spent over an hour and a half in the adobe quagmire and never did figure it out. Adobe Support was useless. I am now trying to decide what to do.

Lightroom 6 IS NOT Lightroom Classic. Lightroom Classic is a Creative Cloud subscription product.

For $9.99 plus tax per month, you get Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC (highly evolved from Lightroom Mobile), Lightroom CLASSIC CC (highly evolved from Lr 6), plus Adobe Bridge and other goodies.

These apps are updated frequently, as long as you pay the monthly fee. You can stop paying for a while, then start paying again when you need to, without losing any work.

Most people using the cloud versions have few issues with MacOS Catalina.

Lightroom 6 is ancient and no longer supported.

jsimp3 Loc: Tennessee

I was happy to see this post due to the challenges I've experienced after installing Catalina on both my laptop and desktop. The most concerning are the issues with Lightroom Classic. I have a number of external HD's connected and a large majority of the images in collections and collection sets were not visible. I also spent hours on the phone with Adobe with no solution. I was directed to install the updated version of Catalina, but the rep could not promise that the update would resolve the issues.

John Howard Loc: SW Florida and Blue Ridge Mountains of NC.

Don’t. Somewhere between Adobe LR Classic and Apple Catalina there is a misconnect. Slowness and lots of non functionality. I think it is so bad Adobe should stop the monthly charge until it is fixed.