2.5.1 for MacOS update stopped recognising my entire farm

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Harvester and node is run on Mac M1 Mini.
Have 128 of HDDs, 16-18TB each (NTFS). And one small 5TB external HDD (ExFAT).
Up until the update all was working fine and now no plots on NTFS HDDs can be recognised by Chia software. But only small 5TB HDD (ExFAT) works fine. Lost entire farm pretty much.

Removed and added back entire directory to the plots.

Update: updated to macOS Sequoia too.

Logs: 2025-02-17T21:40:16.489 2.5.1 harvester chia.plotting.util : WARNING Error reading directory /Volumes/Farm128/Pool1 [Errno 22] Invalid argument: ā€˜/Volumes/Farm128/Pool1ā€™

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Hey! I relayed this to the support channel on the official Discord and this is a possibility (credits to scrutinous):

possible ntfs filesystem corruption. probable fix is to attach the hard drives to a windows machine to repair the filesystem, then move them back

though that ā€œinvalid argumentā€ is somewhat different from what I would expect :thinking:

if the mount location is Farm128 and ā€œpool1ā€ is a subdirectory then that error would make sense

but if the mount location is pool1 then that path should still exist, even if the filesystem isnā€™t mounted there

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Thanks! Can you advise what channel you used, cant find the discussion to ask further questions

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I used #support - hereā€™s a link.

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