Permissions

paxroman wrote:

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But my concern is still that as an Admin I do not have permission to access all the folders.

Mike

Apple has protected the Operating System (OS), itself, from any unauthorized modification, even to the point of making the OS Volume a signed, read-only disk image.

Hence, you, even as an “administrator”, do not have any sort of write privileges on the OS Volume.

This is what was causing the “no permission” issues with trying to make any changes to “System>Application”.

Skylum discontinued support for Luminar 3 over a year ago. Even at that time it was not supported on Big Sur. I doubt its ability to run under Monterey.

Skylum's official position is that Luminar 3 is legacy and does not get compatibility updates. They did offer a free Luminar 4 license to all Luminar 3 owners on Macs with Big Sur or Monterey who experienced crashes during export.  Give them a holler about your problem with installation, perhaps they will extend the offer to you.

This is another example of how Skylum quickly abandons support for its products. I fell for the initial releases of Luminar and Creative Kit only to have Skylum totally abandon both of them within a year. They have continued the practice with every successive release of Luminar. I haven't (and won't) purchase any further apps from them for this reason.

Further, I realize that my earlier post did not address your permissions question. I suspect the problem is not actually a permissions problem, but has something to do with the Luminar 3 installer and Luminar 3 itself.

Note also that the later release of Luminar 4 only works on M1 Macs with Rosetta 2. And the even later release of Luminar AI is the only version that actually has native M1 support. That does not bode well for Luminar 3 working on either an M1 Mac or on Monterey.

If you really want to stick with Luminar then I suggest the solution is to upgrade to Luminar AI and every future version Skylum releases. But at $50-$80 per Luminar release per year, the Photoshop/Lightroom solution is only slightly more and is a much better all-around solution with better support.

I recall similar error messages when I tried to delete a file owned by System that was moved to the Recovered Items folder. The only way I found to delete the file was to boot another installed version of macOS. I could then change the file ownership and ultimately delete the file.

I'm using an old version of Lightroom (V6.14) with Monterey. It kind of works, but can't be re-installed since its installer is a 32-bit application. This version of Lightroom may even run on a M1 Mac but it's probably time to find an alternative.

- Pie Lover

There may be a way (see below) but, IMHO, best to find another solution.

- Pie Lover