UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
The File Chooser panel in Astro Pixel Processor does not directly show you, how you can access the data on network/NAS/SMB/.. shares because normally, they need to be mounted first for Astro Pixel Processor to be able to access the shares.
The best solution to get problem free access to the network/NAS/SMB/.. shares is to have them mounted automatically when you log in to your MacOS operating system.
This information was provided by:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/05/04/automatically-connect-to-network-drive-mac-os-x/
- First make sure that you can access the network share with Apple's Finder. If you can access the share it means that the share is mounted. Once mounted, you can add them to your Login items to have them automatically mounted on login.
- Setting Up Automatic Connections to the Network Drive on Login:
- Open System Preferences and click on “Users & Groups”
- Select your user name from the list and then click the “Login Items” tab
- Drag & drop a mounted network drive into the login items list
- Optional: check the “Hide” box to keep the drives window from opening on each login and boot
This can be used to automatically connect to and mount SMB drives for those that need to share files with a Windows PC often, though you’ll need to enable SAMBA beforehand within File Sharing preferences.
Confirm the drive will automatically mount by logging out of the active user account and logging back in, or by rebooting the Mac.
In Astro Pixel Processor, you will find the network shares with the File Chooser panel under the folder
/Volumes/[Network Share]/
[Network Share] should be replaced by the name of that particular share 😉
Please let us know if you have any additional questions regarding accessing network shares.
Kind regards,
Mabula
Hello,
I want to access an external USB-C drive and I thought that this post would be the solution to the problem but... I have followed the directions and external USB-C does indeed show up as a Login item when I open System Preferences on my Macbook but I do not see the drive when I try to set the working directory in AstroPixel Processor. Things like OneDrive and DropBox show up but not the external drive. FYI the file path is Users/myname. How would I add the external drive to the file path?
Never Mind 🙂 I found it, it is now under the /Volumes
Walter
I like these kind of posts that solve themselves. 😉
Hi,
I tried this with my Synology NAS, in MacOS Monterey. I was able to get the volume selectable as working directory. It is visible in Volumes. However, there are no files nor folders visible to select for processing. Absolutely nothing is visible. At the same time, the finder shows everything as normal.
Help is very welcome! Thanks!
Hans
I'm working on replacing the filechooser we have in APP, I hope this will solve these issues.
