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axcore / tartube

A GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Mac how to use an external drive as storage? #641

Closed rattailgamer closed 5 days ago

rattailgamer commented 1 month ago

I have a mac mini with only 120gb so I was hoping to change the storage to a bigger external drive. On my windows PC External Drives show up to add as database, but on Mac I can only interact with the main drive. Is there a way to make it work or would it maybe be for you possible too add?

Backstory if interested: Unfortunately the problems with recording full livestreams at top quality still isn't working with yt-dlp on windows and is failing every time, otherwise I would have just switched to some old windows laptop for auto download. But bc of that I'm unfortunately stuck with the Mac, as the main Streamer I use this for puts some streams behind a paywall right after they end. So right now I have to make copy to my main PC every couple days to clear the space up again and I would like if I could just let it run and only copy when I am either looking for a specific stream or every couple weeks to then sort it on my main PC and delete unneeded streams.

axcore commented 1 month ago

I don't use a mac so I don't know anything about the intricacies of external drives.

Users have reported that external drives are sometimes troublesome. The file selection window (in File > Database preferences...) is pure Gtk code, if it's not detecting an external drive then there may be nothing I can do about it.

A general solution is to run Tartube on the same drive to which you're downloading files; this seems to prevent a lot of problems. It should be possible to run Tartube's source code directly, without installing it, so you could keep a copy on every external drive you use.