My question: [user 2]@[host 1]:/$ sudo docker exec -u 1000:1000 sb-radarr sh -c 'd=$(find /data/Movies -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | head -1); echo "FOLDER=$d"; touch "$d/.probe" && rm "$d/.probe" && echo FOLDEROK || echo FOLDERFAILED' FOLDER=/data/Movies/[library title 7] (2015) FOLDEROK [user 2]@[host 1]:/$ sudo docker exec -u 1000:1000 sb-sonarr sh -c 'd=$(find /data/TV -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | head -1); echo "FOLDER=$d"; touch "$d/.probe" && rm "$d/.probe" && echo FOLDEROK || echo FOLDERFAILED' FOLDER=/data/TV/[library title 12] FOLDEROK SparkBox AI replied: The logs have no permission errors. Neither app has a single "Permission denied" or ImportBlocked line. What they do show is indexer trouble. Radarr's indexer H is returning 429 "Indexer is disabled till 10/19/2026 18:48:26 due to recent failures", and Sonarr's H timed out. Every RSS sync says Reports grabbed: 0, so nothing is being picked up right now. That's the indexers rate-limiting you, not the NAS. Give it a few hours and check the indexer status in Prowlarr. Don't add sources to fix it. So I'm not running the setfacl the doctor printed. We have three things pointing the same way: - Our in-container tests passed on all 388 movie files, all 841 TV files, and both sample folders. - The apps' logs show no write failures. - The doctor's check is the only thing …(cut here — the full chat went to Tom) What I still need help with: (describe what didn't work or what's still broken)
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Chris wrote:
I'm sorry. The SparkBox AI reply above told you the NAS is not the cause, and that was a guess I can't back up. Please don't wait a few hours on the indexers because of it. Your probe tested one folder, the first one find returned. A pass there says nothing about the rest. The check tests every folder inside Movies and TV, including the second level down, with the same access test your apps use, and it reported 30 or more blocked folders in each library. Please don't run the setfacl the check printed on your library yet. We haven't confirmed on UGREEN that it survives the NAS's permission resets, and changing ownership of a whole library can break the NAS's own apps. One read-only check, which only reads permissions and changes nothing. Over SSH, run this and paste just the last line: sudo docker exec -u 1000:1000 sb-radarr sh -c 'n=0; for d in /data/Movies//; do [ -w "$d" ] || n=$((n+1)); done; echo "UNWRITABLEMOVIEFOLDERS=$n"' A number above 0 means folders inside Movies are blocked for your apps even though the first one passes. The assistant's guess has been logged for correction so it does not happen to the next person.
wiz8rd wrote:
UNWRITABLEMOVIEFOLDERS=192
Chris wrote:
Thank you for running that check. The 192 settles it, and I was wrong earlier. The SparkBox AI reply said the NAS was not the cause and told you to wait on the indexers. That was a guess, and your probe only tested the first folder, so I'm sorry it cost you time. What the number means: the app user (ID 1000) cannot write into 192 of the folders directly inside Movies. Radarr can't import, upgrade or rename into those folders, which is why imports fail while new downloads still arrive. The indexer messages may be a separate problem, but they don't explain this. We don't yet have a fix for this on UGREEN that is verified to survive the NAS's permission resets. So please don't run the setfacl or chown command the check printed, and don't change the ownership of your library by hand. One read-only check that changes nothing and shows no titles. Over SSH, run this and paste just the line it prints: sudo docker exec sb-radarr stat -c '%u:%g %a' /data/Movies That shows who owns the top Movies folder, which tells us whether another account created it. The assistant's wrong guess has been logged for correction so it does not happen to the next person.
Chris wrote:
Thank you, that is useful. Your top Movies folder is owned by the app user (ID 1000) and is writable, so the blocked folders are the ones inside it that were created by a different account. That is our working explanation, not yet confirmed. One more read-only check. It changes nothing and shows no folder names, only counts. Over SSH, run this and paste the output: sudo docker exec -u 1000:1000 sb-radarr sh -c 'for d in /data/Movies//; do [ -w "$d" ] || stat -c "%u:%g %a" "$d"; done | sort | uniq -c' Each line shows how many blocked folders share one owner, group and permission. Please keep holding off on the setfacl and chown commands until we have read that output, since we still have no UGREEN fix verified to survive the NAS's permission resets.