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Cannot backup due to permissions

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quantum

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Hi

I have occasionally experienced problems backing up my LR 5.7 to a drive on exiting.
It sometimes says something like "unable to back this is possibly due to permissions"

I've done it successfully today (as I say it's intermittent) but I thought I'd post the problem to see whether others have had this. It obviously would do this at the most inconvenient time after a lot of work I don;t want to lose.

Nothing has changed in my set up - i.e there's no change to location of back directory, which is on an external drive.

Thanks

John
 
If it sometimes works and sometime you get this message, your destination folder could be on an EHD that is offline. Or it could be that the destination disk is full OR the primary disk is full and there is not enough space on the primary disk for the temporary files.
 
Thanks. I've found that my operating drive C is getting full. It must be the temporary files as you say. Thanks
 
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