macOS Catalina’s new security model broke Roon - how does this happen?

[Jan_Willem (- Loves vibrating air -)]

On the 28th of June Roon had knowledge of the problems with external USB disc access on Catalina beta (see forum). That’s FOUR months ago! Some serious problems here…

[Speed_Racer (Threatened Dinosaur)]

Yes, I said on this forum a while back that Roon should be testing with beta macOS releases to be aware of what is coming so they could get ahead of issues. @danny, the COO, told me that was a waste of time.

[danny (Danny Dulai)]

Fix is out.

Roon 1.6 (Build 475) Is Live For macOS (Catalina Fixes)

Hi everyone, We’re happy to finally release a fix for our storage issues on macOS Catalina. Resolving this issue took significantly more effort than we anticipated, and we are implementing some changes to our development process to ensure this never happens again. We’ll also be crediting Roon members affected by this issue – affected Roon members should receive an email with more details. We appreciate how frustrating this has been for some of you, and we also appreciate everyone’s patience a…

[Quentin_in_FranCisco (BANNED)]

Thanks danny.
By hindsight, I think I posted some harsh comments on Roon, for that I sincerely apologize.

[Andrew_Moran]

Much appreciated

[Henri]

Thanks!

[Jim_F]

That’s great.

[Sander_Zwier]

Thanks, can we go back to complaining about search now?

[Rob_Minten]

Great, update works. Adding the music back to my library!

[Pluto]

Before I do anything, I’d like to know if I should install the Catalina point release or the Roon update first?

[john (John Iburg)]

Hello @Pluto,

It should not matter what order you install the updates in.

-John

[maximasr]

I copied my files to another external drive and mounted the drive on another mac and used SMB to access the music files, Roon worked, it can access remote attached disks, not attached external drives. I just Downloaded the update for Catalina and it worked perfectly. Thanks

[MarkO (Mark)]

Bang on. Upgraded & works great.

[emre_isiklar]

Well done!

[rrwwss52 (Robert)]

Everything good now?

[Pluto]

Thank you. Today I chose to update Catalina to the point release. When the download started I walked away. A couple of hours later I checked and Roon was running and asking permission to use external disks and. Voila! Great work. I was pleasantly surprised by the auto install of latest Roon. Thx again,

[Bill_G]

While I was waiting after my Catalina upgrade I rediscovered the Roon Radio Paradise feed I setup which was great, but it’s wonderful to get the main attached drive back in service. Many thanks!