Mac MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 Error Loading Folder Unauthorized for External Hard Drive

Roon Core Machine

Roon 2.0 Build 1272
MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
Mac Mini 2012

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Description of Issue

This is similar to an issue a number of Roon customers had when storing their music on an external hard drive and running MacOS Catalina. I believe it was resolved by a Roon fix.

When I select Settings>Storage, click Add Folder, and then select an external hard drive to which I’ve copied my Music library, I receive the message “Error Loading Folder. Unauthorized.”

I’ve given “everyone” read/write access to the hard drive and the Music and iTunes folders.

I’m sure there’s something I’m missing in either the Mac or Roon setup.

I have close to a 1TB library of music, and would like to move it to an external drive, so that I can upgrade to the new 500GB Mac Mini, rather than fork out much more for the 2TB model.

Thanks a bunch for your help.
Steve

Take a look at this post.

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Thanks, Martin. That did the trick!

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