Hi T, thanks for the reply.
I have tried all this to no avail:
Max 9 is only listed in the security preferences.
It only show internal volumes, not the removeable volumes option.
Full Disk Access doesn’t solve the problem.
So I remove Max 9. Max 8 now shows up in the security preferences.
Again, no removeable volumes option and Full Disk Access doesn’t solve the problem.
Notes that Max’s own sfrecord~ works, but not spat5.sfrecord~
Then I test on a different computer where I had not installed max9. It still works fine!!
So Max9 seems to have done something mysterious to the security preferences effecting only Spat5. Removing Max9 didn’t help, and maybe there is a library or similar file I missed (there is no deinstall with Max 9 that I can see).
I then downloaded and reinstalled a fresh Spat5. Still no change.
However: “/open /Volume/MY_EXTERNAL_HARD_DRIVE/test.wav” to spat5.sfrecord~ does in fact work! But I do not get a dialogue asking to access the external volume, even though the file is recording now to the external volume. But if I then send “/open” to spat5.sfrecord~ the error message pops up again. The same is true for both Max8 and Max9.
So sending the full path is a work around, but maybe points to something else weird with permissions?
Natasha