Version 1.3 - Pre-release Bugs and Issues

[nate]

Hi @whintz!

Yes, this is a known issue with Lightroom 8.3 for Windows, and you need to downgrade to Lightroom 8.2 until Adobe fixes it. It only effects some users, but for those it effects, it seems to break all exporting of photos to specific folders (both trying to export through the regular export dialog in Lightroom, but also plugins like Negative Lab pro that rely on being able to export images to analyze them).

See this thread:

Error with Lightroom 8.3 on Windows 10

Hi Nate, I think this is definitely an Adobe problem with the recent update because I found a number of people reporting the same message when trying to export images after the update, but I am unable to use NLP. Whenever I launch the plugin and hit the Convert Negative button, I get the error message “Specified folder is not writable.” I discovered the issue trying to convert a newly scanned image in my C;\Users…\Pictures folder, and then also tried to convert an existing image on my external …

I believe Adobe already has a fix in pre-release so hopefully that will be ready for general use very soon!