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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon spacedriveapp

Can't add read-only locations

Open TwanLuttik opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Describe the bug

I was trying to add a location from a hard drive that is formatted for windows (forgot what the format is called) and is just read only so it can't write the .spacedrive file

CleanShot 2023-11-04 at 12 28 40@2x

Reproduction

  • Add a read only location

Expected behavior

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Platform and versions

8.10.2
cargo 1.72.1
rustc 1.72.1 (d5c2e9c34 2023-09-13) (Homebrew)

Stack trace

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Additional context

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TwanLuttik avatar Nov 04 '23 20:11 TwanLuttik

You can go to Privacy > Full Disk Access to make it work for now. it's tracked here https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/issues/1740

utkubakir avatar Nov 04 '23 21:11 utkubakir

Maybe I have worded this wrong but its a HDD formatted as NTFS so mac can't write to it.

TwanLuttik avatar Nov 04 '23 21:11 TwanLuttik

Maybe I have worded this wrong but its a HDD formatted as NTFS so mac can't write to it.

Right, my bad... This will be discussed internally, it would be nice to just get rid of .spacedrive files imo

utkubakir avatar Nov 04 '23 22:11 utkubakir