u/Ok_Golf1550

Hi everyone,

I'm running into a strange issue with Lightroom Classic. Whenever Lightroom tries to back up my catalog, I get the following error:

"Lightroom was unable to back up the catalog. Please check your folder permissions and make sure you have sufficient free space on both the backup drive and the drive containing the main catalog."

Here's what I've already tried:

• Verified that I have full read/write permissions on the backup folder.
• Verified that the destination drive has over 500 GB of free space.
• Tried backing up to a completely different folder.
• Tried backing up to a different physical drive.
• Lightroom Classic and Creative Cloud are fully up to date.
• Windows 11 is fully up to date.

The error is exactly the same every time. Has anyone run into this before? If so, what was the cause and how did you fix it? I'm using Lightroom Classic on Windows 11. The catalog itself opens and works normally. The issue only occurs when Lightroom tries to create the backup.

Thanks in advance!