Not Detecting New Files on External Drive in macOS

[alminQSD]

Environment:

• OS: macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 (23C71)
• Node.js version: v14.17.0
• Chokidar version: 3.5.3

Issue: Chokidar fails to detect new files added to external and network drives on macOS. It functions correctly for local paths (e.g., /Users/myUser/Downloads/testFolder) and also works as expected on Windows for both local, network, and external drives. However, on macOS, it does not trigger 'add' events for new files in /Volumes/MyExternalDrive.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Set up Chokidar to watch a path on an external or network drive.
2. Add new files to this path.
3. Observe that Chokidar does not emit 'add' events on macOS.

Expected Behavior: Chokidar should detect and emit events for new files on external and network drives, similar to its behavior with local directories and as it does on Windows.

Additional Context:

• The issue persists even with usePolling: true.
• The external drive is formatted as exFAT.
• When the external drive is formatted as APFS, it functions properly.
• This issue is specific to macOS; the same setup works on Windows.

Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[mdivkovic-speech]

Bump. @paulmillr is this on the radar?

[paulmillr]

@mdivkovic-speech no. Why would it be?

[paulmillr]

#1305