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Bazarr cannot write to this directory.

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Hi rogs!

All of a sudden I'm getting this message in Bazarr:
"Bazarr cannot write to this directory."

Not sure where to go from here. doesn't give me the same error for radarr but only for sonarr.

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Re: Bazarr cannot write to this directory.

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I see this in my Bazarr notifications:
"We're about to drop support for legacy Sonarr and Radarr versions (prior to v3). If you're still using those legacy versions, please consider upgrading ASAP."

Not sure if this means anything...

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Re: Bazarr cannot write to this directory.

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Hey @badteddy!

Did you change the permissions in your config directory? YAMS already runs Sonarr/Radarr v3, so it's safe to ignore that warning.

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Re: Bazarr cannot write to this directory.

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Hi rogs I dont recall changing any permissions.

How do I check?

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Re: Bazarr cannot write to this directory.

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First of all, check the logs to see what directory is it complaining about. You can check the logs by running:

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docker logs bazarr

Once you see the directory, make sure the user that runs YAMS has full permissions on it:

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sudo chown -R user:user /the/directory/with/wrong/permissions

(replace user with the correct user and /the/directory/with/wrong/permissions with the correct directory

And finally, restart YAMS

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yams restart
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