Folder permission problem

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Permissions on files and album folders are working just fine but when beets creates the genre folder it does not set the permissions it gives this error

Error: Permission denied while creating /volume1/Tunes/Acid/Luke Vibert

So it created the genre folder if its not there but then fails on the album as the parent folder has the wrong permissions

Relevant config lines

permissions:
file: 644
dir: 755

paths:
default: $genre/$albumartist/[$year] $album/$track $title
singleton: Singletons/$artist - $title
comp: $genre/Various Artists/[$year] $album/$track $title ($artist)
albumtype:soundtrack: Soundtracks/[$year] $album/$track $title ($artist)

format_item: $genre - $artist - [$year] $album - $title
format_album: $genre - $albumartist [$year] - $album

Anyone got any ideas or is this a bug?

Thanks

2

That’s strange. I don’t see any obvious cause for this. Is there anything in the verbose log (beet import -vv)? Also, what do the permissions on the directory end up as, if not 755?

3

So seems like I am getting the same issue and have permissions set up the same in my config yaml :confused:

beets version 1.4.6
Python version 2.7.10
OS Mac High Sierra

Should also mention Im adding files to an external HD formated (ExFat)

4

Nevermind, found my issue.

5

Cool! Any chance you could describe what the problem is, to help future users who stumble across this thread?

6

Sure. For me it was the way I formatted my external hd. Had it as Exfat (read that this has some issues with permissions in general).