[tasuraji]

Hey,

I am new in the forum but am currently experiencing issues with TinyMediaManager. I just moved to a new apartment and re-set-up my entertainment system. In the process, I moved my media server (NAS) and added several new titles to my collection. When trying to manage the library with TinyMediaManager now, I am encountering the problem of not being able to update the library. My last run of TMM was about half a year ago on a different network.

Every time I try to press "Update data sources", I receive the error "Data source /Volumes/TV-Shows not available - skipping", even though I did mount the network drive "TV-Shows" beforehand.

I have tried updating from Catalina to OS X 11, re-installing TinyMediaManager, using different methods to mount the drives, a second mac computer (MacBook), and giving TMM full disk access. A test source (some movies in a desktop folder) work fine when not on the mapped network drive.

My system is a MacMini(2018) with
   -> Java Vers: 1.8.0_271
   -> TMM Vers: 3.1.10

Here is an excerpt from the TMM.log:

Code:

2020-11-15 01:53:46,495 INFO  [tmmpool-main-task-T2-G17] o.t.c.t.tasks.TvShowUpdateDatasourceTask:174 - Start UDS on datasource: /Volumes/TV-Shows
2020-11-15 01:53:46,511 ERROR [tmmpool-main-task-T2-G17] o.t.c.t.tasks.TvShowUpdateDatasourceTask:1125 - list files failed: /Volumes/TV-Shows: Operation not permitted
2020-11-15 01:53:46,513 INFO  [tmmpool-main-task-T2-G17] o.t.c.t.tasks.TvShowUpdateDatasourceTask:307 - getting Mediainfo...
2020-11-15 01:53:46,513 INFO  [tmmpool-main-task-T2-G17] o.t.c.t.tasks.TvShowUpdateDatasourceTask:343 - Done updating datasource - took 00:00:00.018

I am not sure if I am just missing some permissions for Java, external volumes, or what. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I would be more than happy to provide log-files if helpful.

Thanks in advance!

[mlaggner]

you have already identified the core information:

Code:

2020-11-15 01:53:46,511 ERROR [tmmpool-main-task-T2-G17] o.t.c.t.tasks.TvShowUpdateDatasourceTask:1125 - list files failed: /Volumes/TV-Shows: Operation not permitted


looks like something in your setup is preventing the tmm process of listing files from this source.. I cannot say whether this is the share itself (NAS permissions), the mount options OR macOS gatekeeper itself - but this is definitely something you need to solve yourself

[tasuraji]

Hey mlaggner,

thanks for the fast reply.

I found the problem and a fix. The fact that the problem appeared on two different machines and the fact that I now successfully was able to use different external volumes (non-network) for my library clearly pointed towards a NAS share/mapping problem. Even though I tried mapping with SMB/AFP/NFS before, I never tried mapping outside the /Volumes/ Section of my computer. A combination of the two links (netnerds.net alone resulted in empty folders and forums.plex.tv alone maps a folder that also doesn't work for me) worked for me to map the shares to my User Folder:

Create a folder in your Home directory for the NAS (e.g. /User/me/MyCloudEX2Ultra) and for each of the shares you want to map (e.g. /User/USERNAME/MyCloudEX2Ultra/Movies, /Users/USERNAME/MyCloudEX2Ultra/TV-Shows)
From a terminal window:

Code:

sudo touch /etc/auto_afp
sudo chmod 600 /etc/auto_afp

Opening the auto_afp file with nano

Code:

sudo nano /etc/auto_afp

and adding (while replacing the capitalised sections with your details)

Code:

SHARE     -fstype=afp    afp://USER:PASSWORD@NETWORKLOCATION/SHARE

for each share. For me this was: 

Code:

Movies          -fstype=afp     afp://ME:PSWD@MyCloudEX2Ultra/Movies
TV-Shows        -fstype=afp     afp://ME:PSWD@MyCloudEX2Ultra/TV-Shows

Saving with contol+o and closing with control+x.
Opening and adding

Code:

sudo nano /etc/auto_master

adding (while replacing the capitalised sections with your details) one extra line to the file:

Code:

/Users/USERNAME/FOLDER                    auto_afp        -nosuid

Here, FOLDER is the initially created folder in your Home directory for the NAS (e.g. /User/me/MyCloudEX2Ultra). This leaves my example with:

Code:

/Users/me/MyCloudEX2Ultra                    auto_afp        -nosuid

Saving with contol+o and closing with control+x.
Restarting automount

Code:

sudo automount -vc

should map the new drives correctly in the home directory. The shares should now also be correctly mounted after rebooting!

I am guessing the problem was some permissions error for the /Volumes directory. I hope this helps others.

Cheers!

[mlaggner]

Thanks for the detailed information which may help other users too