Hi All,

Hoping you can assist.

I have FMS18 running on Mac #1 in the office. This hosts a database with a lot of container fields. I recently moved the container fields external and during this move, have lost a lot of them. IN addition, the database is struggling to save new uploads to external storage.

Ideally, I want the database file, hosted on Mac #, with external storage on an external HDD which is USB3 to Mac #1

All clients are on the same Network;.

What am i doing wrong, because can't get it to work.

Right now, I've moved the storage folders back onto the Mac #1, but am getting an error "Cant write to external storage"

On macOS, when you manually move folders, they inherit the permissions of the user doing the move so you'll have to use the Terminal (or something like BatchMod) to make the owner fmserver of group fmsadmin and let that propagate down to all subfolders and files.

Remote Container folders should not be on an external USB drive.  RC files and folders need to be treated as the live FM files that they are, an external drive is too fragile for good operation.  I would strongly advise against it.

If you want to go ahead then you'll need to set permissions on that external drive just so, that FMS can read and write to it.  Not sure if that'll work entirely but it may.