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Hi Guys,

I will definitely begin with a thank you.  I am delighted with this software.  Totally awesome and saves so much time.  

I'll cut to the chase,  I have recently purchased a 1TB external HD on firewire 800 for my MAC.  Part of the reason being that my poor 300GB mac HD reached it capacity.

I wanted to know how to point SABNZBD (0.4.2) so that it saves the downloads straight to the external hard drive.  Presently when I navigate to :

Config > Folders

I see that it seems to unchangeably reference to :

/Users/Stuart  (Stuart being the user, me)

I tried creating an alias in the 'Stuart' folder that points to the external HD, but that didnt work.  Interestingly, ever since I have been tinkering around I now cant even save files to any other folder anywhere!  I recieve this error:

[assembler] Disk error on creating file /Users/Stuart/converted/incomplete/[name of the title I am downloading here]

If anyone could kindly advise I would be very grateful.

Many Thanks



Info Requested :

Version: 0.4.2
OS: OSX Leopard 10.5.4
Install-type: OSx .app
Skin: Default
Firewall Software: Little Snitch
Are you using IPV6? No
Is the issue reproducible? yes

First try to get to a situation where you can copy files with Finder, so that mounting ad access rights are simple.
I don't know what you mean by alias, but a symbolic link works on Linux, so that should work on OSX too.

Further for efficiency I would put the "incomplete" folder on the local harddisk
and the "complete" folder(s) on the new drive.

Hi Shypike,

I'm not sure I know what you mean.  I have only switched to OSx a few months ago so please excuse my ignorance.  I can copy files with Finder anywhere on any disk.  Mounting and access rights?  How do I give SAB access rights?

Yes alias as in symbolic link.  It was all working nicely until i tried to point it to the alias (shortcut / symbolic link etc).  Now it seems to have no rights to write to disk (any disk, local or external).  Perplexing.

I note though, as per pair of dimes advise, I tried to specify the save location as /volumes/[name of external HD] and low and behold it actually created two folders (named by me, which were 'complete' and 'incomplete') but then proceeded to give me disk write errors subsequently.

Just looked at the MAC install guide: http://sabnzbd.wikidot.com/howto-osx-src This seems to make some suggestion on installing pyton and some other weird stuff!  However I am already on 10.5.4 so I guess thats not necessary?  Hmm

I'm such an MAC noob! haha.  I am guessing this must be a result of permissions.  Hmm I only know NTFS (windows), not so good with MFS (Mac file system)

Thanks a lot

If you use the OSX app, there's no need to install Python.

For more answers you are dependent on other OSX users on this forum.
I'm just as much an OSX noob as you are...

Hi stuart.sgp,

As shypike mentioned, if you use osx app, you don't need to install anything.
NTFS volumes on mac osx are mounted read only and you can't write on it.

Here some way to resolve your issue :

- format your external drive in HFS+ (Mac OS Filesystem) but you'll not be able to read/write from Windows PC
- install macfuse with NTFS-G support (it's seem working, i'm not personnaly using it...) to read/write on NTFS volumes

and mount your volume before starting sabnzbd because of this (read this thread)

Hope it helps