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Hi Tim,
They're Crucial 2TB SSD.
Incidentally, I tried Harry's suggestion - reformatted the FAT32 drive, plugged it into the Pi, Moode sees the drive, which I'd renamed as USB Drive, rebooted the Pi & my Mac, but when I look at the Pi 5 on the network it gives this drive the previous name & I can't log onto it.
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Couple things:
1. Use a different disk label that doesn't have "USB" in it. This will ensure that there is no odd conflict with the reserved directory and link name "USB" that moode uses.
2. If you are seeing duplicates in moode Library it means that those Mac OS hidden files are still present on the drive. Run the command I posted earlier to delete them.
3. MacOS automatic network discovery is not very timely or reliable in my decades of experience with Mac. Eventually it picks up the new names but not always... You can always try from the Mac system menu bar: Go > Connect to server and then enter something like smb://moode
In practice I find that its much easier and way faster to update USB drives using my Mac and then after plugging them into a Pi run the previously posted command to wipe out those incredibly annoying hidden files and directories. Just make sure on your Mac that you click the "un-mount" button for the drive before unplugging it or MacOS will display some sort of warning notification.
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Thanks Tim. I've run out of time today but I'll persist later in the week. Incidentally, the duplicates show on the Mac-formatted drive as used previously, so that command still won't work on the files.
I still can't grasp why the disk with the identical files etc., but formatted as FAT32 won't show the music folder…
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Its not obvious to me what might be happening on your end but for sure Fat32 drives work just fine in moode and things like macOS hidden files can be easily deleted on those drives.
MacOS native formatted drives i.e., "MacOS Extended" or APFS are read-only when auto-mounted in Linux and so the hidden files can't be deleted.
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08-01-2024, 11:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2024, 11:47 AM by suffolktony.)
Ahhh…I'm now in our holiday home & using my Macbook. I renamed the FAT32 disk as pifat, & Moode recognised it. And finally saw & played a couple of music files I'd put on there. I can also see & log onto this Pi-attached disk from the network & have full access. Yipee!
I've left things churning away, transferring all the music across the network. It'll take a day or so (!) but that's fine. Thank heavens for that!
Thanks for all the help!
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I'm glad to hear that you got it worked out!
