Won't recognize a new folder of music unless it's at the root of the watched folder[Solved]

  1. If I try to rename the “DSF” folder, the “Mozart” folder, or any other folders within “Mozart”, the Finder wants my admin password. That’s not true for other folders in Roon-Music. So maybe there is something to the permissions angle.

However, when I look at the permissions, they appear correct and it doesn’t look as if there is a specialized ACL on the folder or any of the files (besides the .DS_Store). The presence of the “._.DSStore” is also odd, I’ve not seen that before.

(output of ls -al on Mozart folder)
drwx------ 1 pinkerton 5000 16384 Feb 17 17:25 .
drwx------ 1 pinkerton 5000 16384 Feb 17 17:25 …
-rwx------@ 1 pinkerton 5000 6148 Feb 17 17:28 .DS_Store
-rwx------ 1 pinkerton 5000 4096 Feb 6 11:34 ._.DS_Store
drwx------ 1 pinkerton 5000 16384 Feb 7 15:44 DSF
-rwx------ 1 pinkerton 5000 340295 Feb 6 01:31 Front.png
-rwx------ 1 pinkerton 5000 3368845312 Feb 6 01:44 Mozart - Piano Concertos.iso
drwx------ 1 pinkerton 5000 16384 Feb 6 01:35 art

Hey @Mike_Pinkerton – could you look at the link above again?

I guessing that will help, and you might also try just copying the files onto a local drive, deleting the old directory, making a new directory, and copying the files back. Hopefully that does it, but let me know if not.

There is also a way to cleanup these files when running windows using a batch file.

More info here: https://ardamis.com/tag/apple/

I tried using dot_clean. While the Finder could still access the files, the command-line no longer could, refusing to list the directory. I copied all the files (with the Finder) from my NAS to the local drive, deleted the original, then back into the “• DSD” directory.

All works fine now. Something must have gotten corrupted during the copy. Sorry for all the hassles, and thanks to everyone who provided suggestions. You can move this to the SOLVED bin.

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Thanks for letting us know @Mike_Pinkerton. Glad you were able to sort this out.