Add makedirs to FileUtil, move where the directory templates are created

[RhetTbull]

• Error: The SMB mounted folder "disappears" from mcOS and osxphotos gets "Errno 13" -- yeah! Have to figure out why after 22 hours straight working well and osxphotos exporting ~75K assets, the connection fails.

2025-11-13 16:15:39.003688 -- Exporting IMG_20240205_130446.HEIC (0BB4248D-DB86-4E67-BC3E-364E32EC4E4D.heic) (76594/112517)
2025-11-13 16:17:25.471106 -- Error exporting photo (0BB4248D-DB86-4E67-BC3E-364E32EC4E4D: IMG_20240205_130446.HEIC) as IMG_20240205_130446.jpeg: [Errno 57] Socket is not connected: '/Volumes/photo/xxx.HEIC'
2025-11-13 16:17:25.486767 -- Retrying export for photo (0BB4248D-DB86-4E67-BC3E-364E32EC4E4D: IMG_20240205_130446.HEIC)
2025-11-13 16:17:25.498956 -- Error exporting photo (0BB4248D-DB86-4E67-BC3E-364E32EC4E4D: IMG_20240205_130446.HEIC) as IMG_20240205_130446.jpeg: Invalid path passed to export
2025-11-13 16:17:25.499440 -- Retrying export for photo (0BB4248D-DB86-4E67-BC3E-364E32EC4E4D: IMG_20240205_130446.HEIC)
2025-11-13 16:17:25.502350 -- Error exporting photo (0BB4248D-DB86-4E67-BC3E-364E32EC4E4D: IMG_20240205_130446.HEIC) as IMG_20240205_130446.jpeg: Invalid path passed to export
Something went wrong and osxphotos encountered an error:
[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Volumes/photo'
Writing export database to 
/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Logs/.osxphotos_export.db
Crash log written to '/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Apps/osxphotos_crash.log'
Please file a bug report at https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos/issues with 
the crash log attached.
2025-11-13 16:17:27.224896 -- Cleaning up lock files

• Yes, I use --ramdb and its copying to a NAS Server.

• I also use the --report which yields the following counts which seem to be correct.

report.csv counts

[
{
  "exported_sum": 75462,
  "new_sum": 15144,
  "updated_sum": 60318,
  "skipped_sum": 2698,
  "exif_updated_sum": 75457,
  "touched_sum": 75462,
  "converted_to_jpeg_sum": 12654,
  "missing_sum": 4,
  "error_sum": 0,
  "exiftool_warning_sum": 0,
  "exiftool_error_sum": 0,
  "cleanup_deleted_file_sum": 0,
  "cleanup_deleted_directory_sum": 0,
  "exported_album_sum": 0
}
]

• osxphotos_crash.log listed here

osxphotos_crash.log

osxphotos crash log
Created: 2025-11-13 16:17:26.933997
osxphotos version: 0.74.0
Platform: macOS-15.7.1-arm64-arm-64bit-Mach-O
Python version: 3.13.8 (main, Oct  7 2025, 12:01:51) [Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.3)]
sys.argv: ['/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Apps/.venv/bin/osxphotos', 'export', '/Volumes/photo/Family.Photos', '--exportdb', '/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Logs/.osxphotos_export.db', '--library', '/Users/msp/Pictures/Recreate.photoslibrary/database/Photos.sqlite', '--load-config', '/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Apps/colibri.toml', '--report', '/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Logs/report.csv']
CRASH_DATA:
locals: {'dest': '/Volumes/photo/Family.Photos', 'db': '/Users/msp/Pictures/Recreate.photoslibrary/database/Photos.sqlite', 'add_exported_to_album': None, 'add_missing_to_album': None, 'add_skipped_to_album': None, 'added_after': None, 'added_before': None, 'added_in_last': None, 'album': (), 'album_keyword': False, 'alt_db': None, 'alt_copy': False, 'append': False, 'fix_orientation': False, 'beta': False, 'burst': False, 'checkpoint': None, 'cleanup': False, 'cloudasset': False, 'config_only': False, 'convert_to_jpeg': False, 'crash_after': None, 'current_name': False, 'deleted': False, 'deleted_only': False, 'description': (), 'description_template': None, 'directory': None, 'download_missing': False, 'dry_run': False, 'duplicate': False, 'edited': False, 'edited_suffix': None, 'exif': (), 'exiftool': False, 'exiftool_merge_keywords': False, 'exiftool_merge_persons': False, 'exiftool_option': (), 'exiftool_path': None, 'export_as_hardlink': False, 'export_by_date': False, 'exportdb': '/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Logs/.osxphotos_export.db', 'external_edit': False, 'favorite': False, 'favorite_rating': False, 'filename_template': None, 'finder_tag_keywords': False, 'finder_tag_template': (), 'folder': (), 'force_update': False, 'from_date': None, 'from_time': None, 'has_comment': False, 'has_likes': False, 'has_raw': False, 'hdr': False, 'hidden': False, 'ignore_case': False, 'ignore_date_modified': False, 'ignore_exportdb': False, 'ignore_signature': False, 'in_album': False, 'incloud': False, 'is_reference': False, 'jpeg_ext': None, 'jpeg_quality': None, 'keep': (), 'keyword': (), 'keyword_template': (), 'label': (), 'limit': None, 'live': False, 'load_config': '/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Apps/colibri.toml', 'location': False, 'max_size': None, 'min_size': None, 'missing': False, 'name': (), 'no_comment': False, 'no_description': False, 'no_exportdb': False, 'no_keyword': False, 'no_likes': False, 'no_location': False, 'no_place': False, 'no_progress': False, 'no_title': False, 'not_burst': False, 'not_cloudasset': False, 'not_edited': False, 'not_favorite': False, 'not_hdr': False, 'not_hidden': False, 'not_in_album': False, 'not_incloud': False, 'not_live': False, 'not_missing': False, 'not_panorama': False, 'not_portrait': False, 'not_reference': False, 'not_screenshot': False, 'not_screen_recording': False, 'not_selfie': False, 'not_shared': False, 'not_slow_mo': False, 'not_time_lapse': False, 'only_movies': False, 'only_new': False, 'only_photos': False, 'original_suffix': None, 'overwrite': False, 'panorama': False, 'person': (), 'person_keyword': False, 'place': (), 'portrait': False, 'post_command': (), 'post_command_error': None, 'post_function': (), 'preview': False, 'preview_if_missing': False, 'preview_suffix': None, 'print_template': (), 'query_eval': (), 'query_function': (), 'ramdb': False, 'regex': (), 'replace_keywords': False, 'report': '/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Logs/report.csv', 'retry': None, 'save_config': None, 'screenshot': False, 'screen_recording': False, 'selfie': False, 'shared': False, 'export_aae': False, 'sidecar': (), 'sidecar_drop_ext': False, 'sidecar_template': (), 'skip_bursts': False, 'skip_edited': False, 'skip_live': False, 'skip_original_if_edited': False, 'skip_raw': False, 'skip_uuid': (), 'skip_uuid_from_file': None, 'slow_mo': False, 'strip': False, 'theme': None, 'time_lapse': False, 'timestamp': False, 'title': (), 'tmpdir': None, 'to_date': None, 'to_time': None, 'touch_file': False, 'update': False, 'update_errors': False, 'use_photokit': False, 'use_photos_export': False, 'uti': None, 'uuid': (), 'uuid_from_file': None, 'verbose_flag': 0, 'xattr_template': (), 'year': (), 'syndicated': False, 'not_syndicated': False, 'saved_to_library': False, 'not_saved_to_library': False, 'shared_moment': False, 'not_shared_moment': False, 'shared_library': False, 'not_shared_library': False, 'selected': False, 'ctx': <click.core.Context object at 0x11343ae90>, 'cli_obj': <osxphotos.cli.cli.CLI_Obj object at 0x1134d6120>}
cfg: {'add_exported_to_album': None, 'add_missing_to_album': None, 'add_skipped_to_album': None, 'added_after': None, 'added_before': None, 'added_in_last': None, 'album': (), 'album_keyword': False, 'alt_copy': False, 'alt_db': None, 'append': False, 'beta': False, 'burst': False, 'checkpoint': None, 'cleanup': True, 'cloudasset': False, 'convert_to_jpeg': True, 'crash_after': None, 'current_name': False, 'db': '/Users/msp/Pictures/Recreate.photoslibrary/database/Photos.sqlite', 'deleted': False, 'deleted_only': False, 'description': (), 'description_template': 'Album:{album|sort,}{newline}Description:{descr,}', 'directory': '{album|filter(startswith 1|2)?{album|function:tree.py::determine_folder_name},0000-0000}/{album|filter(startswith 1|2)[/,.|:,.]}', 'download_missing': True, 'dry_run': False, 'duplicate': False, 'edited': False, 'edited_suffix': None, 'exif': (), 'exiftool': True, 'exiftool_merge_keywords': True, 'exiftool_merge_persons': True, 'exiftool_option': (), 'exiftool_path': None, 'export_aae': False, 'export_as_hardlink': False, 'export_by_date': False, 'exportdb': '/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Logs/.osxphotos_export.db', 'external_edit': False, 'favorite': False, 'favorite_rating': False, 'filename_template': None, 'finder_tag_keywords': False, 'finder_tag_template': (), 'fix_orientation': False, 'folder': ('iPhoto Events', 'Family'), 'force_update': False, 'from_date': None, 'from_time': None, 'has_comment': False, 'has_likes': False, 'has_raw': False, 'hdr': False, 'hidden': False, 'ignore_case': False, 'ignore_date_modified': False, 'ignore_exportdb': True, 'ignore_signature': False, 'in_album': False, 'incloud': False, 'is_reference': False, 'jpeg_ext': None, 'jpeg_quality': None, 'keep': ('index.png', '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].png'), 'keyword': (), 'keyword_template': ('{keyword}', '{label}', '{searchinfo.activity?activity:{searchinfo.activity},}', '{searchinfo.venue_type?venue_type:{searchinfo.venue_type},}', '{person|sort|function:persons.py::myfilter}', '{function:media_keywords.py::media_keywords}'), 'label': (), 'library': None, 'limit': None, 'live': False, 'location': False, 'max_size': None, 'min_size': None, 'missing': False, 'name': (), 'no_comment': False, 'no_description': False, 'no_exportdb': False, 'no_keyword': False, 'no_likes': False, 'no_location': False, 'no_place': False, 'no_progress': True, 'no_title': False, 'not_burst': False, 'not_cloudasset': False, 'not_edited': False, 'not_favorite': False, 'not_hdr': False, 'not_hidden': True, 'not_in_album': False, 'not_incloud': False, 'not_live': False, 'not_missing': False, 'not_panorama': False, 'not_portrait': False, 'not_reference': False, 'not_saved_to_library': False, 'not_screen_recording': False, 'not_screenshot': False, 'not_selfie': False, 'not_shared': False, 'not_shared_library': False, 'not_shared_moment': False, 'not_slow_mo': False, 'not_syndicated': False, 'not_time_lapse': False, 'only_movies': False, 'only_new': False, 'only_photos': False, 'original_suffix': None, 'overwrite': False, 'panorama': False, 'person': (), 'person_keyword': False, 'place': (), 'portrait': False, 'post_command': (), 'post_command_error': None, 'post_function': (), 'preview': False, 'preview_if_missing': False, 'preview_suffix': None, 'print_template': (), 'query_eval': (), 'query_function': (), 'ramdb': True, 'regex': (), 'replace_keywords': False, 'report': '/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Logs/report.csv', 'retry': 2, 'saved_to_library': False, 'screen_recording': False, 'screenshot': False, 'selected': False, 'selfie': False, 'shared': False, 'shared_library': False, 'shared_moment': False, 'sidecar': (), 'sidecar_drop_ext': False, 'sidecar_template': (), 'skip_bursts': True, 'skip_edited': False, 'skip_live': False, 'skip_original_if_edited': True, 'skip_raw': True, 'skip_uuid': (), 'skip_uuid_from_file': None, 'slow_mo': False, 'strip': True, 'syndicated': False, 'theme': None, 'time_lapse': False, 'timestamp': True, 'title': (), 'tmpdir': None, 'to_date': None, 'to_time': None, 'touch_file': True, 'update': True, 'update_errors': False, 'use_photokit': False, 'use_photos_export': False, 'uti': None, 'uuid': (), 'uuid_from_file': None, 'verbose': True, 'xattr_template': (), 'year': ()}
osxphotos version: 0.74.0
Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Volumes/photo'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Apps/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/osxphotos/crash_reporter.py", line 79, in wrapped
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Apps/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/osxphotos/cli/export.py", line 1077, in export
    return_code = export_cli(**locals())
  File "/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Apps/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/osxphotos/cli/export.py", line 1922, in export_cli
    export_results = export_photo(**kwargs)
  File "/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Apps/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/osxphotos/cli/export.py", line 2381, in export_photo
    dest_paths = get_dirnames_from_template(
        photo,
    ...<6 lines>...
        export_db=export_db,
    )
  File "/Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Apps/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/osxphotos/cli/export.py", line 2931, in get_dirnames_from_template
    os.makedirs(dest_path)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "<frozen os>", line 218, in makedirs
  File "<frozen os>", line 218, in makedirs
  File "<frozen os>", line 218, in makedirs
  File "<frozen os>", line 228, in makedirs
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Volumes/photo'

• Before I go and run it again, I need to make sure it actually skips already exported pics.

• sqlite3 .osxphotos_export.db is showing me:

sqlite> select count(*) from export_data;
count(*)
--------
107813  
sqlite> select count(*) from photoinfo;
count(*)
--------
105659  

• And then I went into the history table.. and it seems the files are being savagely updated in Photos thus generating diffs and new signatures (?)... which prompts osxphotos (correctly!) to (re)exports. And the odd skip entry shows up... Will it ever stabilise, as I'm running after my first export in five days!!! -- I guess, back to the first bullet: figure out why the SMB Mount connects drops.
  • Idea/thought: will double-check the retry timeout to write to a file to see if a larger one would allow me somehow to re-mount the SMDB filesystem... avoiding the restart of osxphotos export

 select e.id, e.uuid,  dest_mtime, timestamp, error, h.datetime, h.action, h.diff from export_data e, history h, history_path hp where h.filepath_id = hp.id and  e.uuid = hp.uuid  group by e.id, e.filepath_normalized, e.uuid,  dest_mtime, digest, timestamp, error, h.datetime, h.action order by hp.uuid limit 10
   ...> ;
id     uuid                                  dest_mtime    timestamp                error   datetime                 action                      diff                                 
-----  ------------------------------------  ------------  -----------------------  ------  -----------------------  --------------------------  -------------------------------------
48694  000038D2-3B1B-4C5D-8767-B9C9AA6D6DF5  1310998675.0  2025-11-13 08:13:51.888  <NULL>  2025-11-09 23:29:59.713  new                         <NULL>                               
48694  000038D2-3B1B-4C5D-8767-B9C9AA6D6DF5  1310998675.0  2025-11-13 08:13:51.888  <NULL>  2025-11-12 01:18:16.964  update: DEST_SIG_DIFFERENT  [["adjustment_type", "removed", [0]]]
48694  000038D2-3B1B-4C5D-8767-B9C9AA6D6DF5  1310998675.0  2025-11-13 08:13:51.888  <NULL>  2025-11-13 08:13:51.888  skip                        [["adjustment_type", "removed", [0]]]
55986  0000BA18-134D-4B8E-90DF-C3E059A247BA  1334474471.0  2025-11-12 22:27:12.732  <NULL>  2025-11-10 03:53:01.583  new                         <NULL>                               
55986  0000BA18-134D-4B8E-90DF-C3E059A247BA  1334474471.0  2025-11-12 22:27:12.732  <NULL>  2025-11-12 22:27:12.732  update: DEST_SIG_DIFFERENT  [["adjustment_type", "removed", [0]]]
20814  0000F631-B34D-41EF-8EAF-89A6E8D4B18B  1679225364.0  2025-11-09 07:06:41.299  <NULL>  2025-11-09 07:06:41.299  new                         <NULL>                               
73593  000126EB-BC9D-4E20-80DB-328C74874527  1714734902.0  2025-11-12 20:39:38.180  <NULL>  2025-11-10 22:38:44.874  new                         <NULL>                               
73593  000126EB-BC9D-4E20-80DB-328C74874527  1714734902.0  2025-11-12 20:39:38.180  <NULL>  2025-11-10 22:38:45.178  new                         [["adjustment_type", "removed", [0]]]
73593  000126EB-BC9D-4E20-80DB-328C74874527  1714734902.0  2025-11-12 20:39:38.180  <NULL>  2025-11-11 20:13:41.023  update: DEST_SIG_DIFFERENT  [["adjustment_type", "removed", [0]]]
73593  000126EB-BC9D-4E20-80DB-328C74874527  1714734902.0  2025-11-12 20:39:38.180  <NULL>  2025-11-11 20:13:41.405  update: DEST_SIG_DIFFERENT  [["adjustment_type", "removed", [0]]]

Originally posted by @oPromessa in #2002 (reply in thread)

[oPromessa]

@RhetTbull

• I've added makers to Fileutil and adjusted it use.

• I'm working on adding tenacity retry on all operations of the fileutil.py classes (if you have time 😄: oPromessa/issue2004-- let me know if you agree.

  • The recovery mechanism I found was by running AppleScript to open an alias to the SMB export destination folder which forces macOs to re-mount the SMB export folder. It works! Maybe not the most elegant... but hey!
  • The alias for now is created manually. I can maybe add an option to create it or instruction on how the user should do so.
  • All of these should be arguments to be used by users with SMB disconnect issues (to be worked on)

• "move where the directory templates are created" -- do you want to give me some pointers on this one?

[RhetTbull]

Great! I'll take a look at your branch this week.

"move where the directory templates are created" -- do you want to give me some pointers on this one?

Currently, in osxphotos/cli/export.py, get_dirnames_from_template is evaluated to render the --directory template. This also creates the directories use os.makedirs if not --dry-run. This means the directories are created before anything is exported. If osxphotos was stopped or it crashed, you could end up with empty folders in the export. It would probably be better to create the directory, if needed, at the time the file is actually exported. Without looking at the code, I'm guessing this is likely in osxphotos/photoexporter.py which would need to check to see if the destination path exists and if not, call FileUtil.makedirs. The dummy dry-run version of FileUtil would handle the dry run case and not actually create the directories.

osxphotos/osxphotos/cli/export.py

Lines 2922 to 2932 in 9e65353

	dest_paths = []
	for dirname in dirnames:
	if strip:
	dirname = dirname.strip()
	dirname = sanitize_filepath(dirname)
	dest_path = os.path.join(dest, dirname)
	if not is_valid_filepath(dest_path):
	raise ValueError(f"Invalid file path: '{dest_path}'")
	if not dry_run and not os.path.isdir(dest_path):
	os.makedirs(dest_path)
	dest_paths.append(dest_path)

[oPromessa]

• I'm working on adding tenacity retry on all operations of the fileutil.py classes (if you have time 😄: oPromessa/issue2004-- let me know if you agree.

1. YAY ! 1st export finally succeeded after non-stop 3 days and 6 hours for 112K pics and several videos!

2025-11-20 01:22:15.954170 -- Processed: 112517 photos, exported: 1874, updated: 102912, skipped: 10033, updated EXIF data: 104779, missing: 4, error: 4, touched date: 104786
2025-11-20 01:22:15.954368 -- Elapsed time: 3 days, 6:26:44
(...)
2025-11-20 02:05:18.563842 -- Deleted: 3 files, 0 directories
2025-11-20 02:05:20.339747 -- Wrote export report to /Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Logs/report.csv
2025-11-20 02:05:20.340052 -- Writing export database changes back to /Users/msp/Pictures/Pictures/Logs/.osxphotos_export.db
2025-11-20 02:05:22.031043 -- Cleaning up lock files
[warning] Result: 0

2. Noticed this code is masking OSError errno and not allowing tenacity do work. It's not a problem, but we may have to revisit it.
   

   osxphotos/osxphotos/fileutil.py

   Lines 328 to 330 in 9e65353

   	shutil.copy(str(src), str(dest))
   	except Exception as e:
   	raise OSError(f"Error copying {src} to {dest}: {e}") from e

3. SMB connection failed and recovered about 7 times with a few scenarios.

fileutil error/recovery messages for SMB network failures on a 3 day run

$ grep fileutil PhotosExport.cron.err    
2025-11-16 18:55:45,247 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: Error copying /var/folders/4q/ld0370gd27scll_n3_5_qss80000gn/T/osxphotos_export_mb274rmn/371662D6-8DB7-41A2-91F5-435A4E7E5251_exiftool.jpeg to /Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
2025-11-16 18:55:45,262 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Volumes/photo' 
2025-11-16 18:55:45,263 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.makedirs' after 0.000(s), this was the 1st time calling it.
2025-11-16 18:55:45,263 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 129 - ⚠️  fileutil: SMB error: retrying mount SMB alias /Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/Export/export/working/nas_export_alias.alias to continue...
2025-11-16 18:55:49,962 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 145 - ✅  fileutil: re-mounted SMB alias successfully.
(...)
2025-11-17 04:35:38,903 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: Error copying /var/folders/4q/ld0370gd27scll_n3_5_qss80000gn/T/osxphotos_export_anh44jji/7064430D-4BFD-4899-8513-B6C0643D858A_exiftool.jpeg to /Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
2025-11-17 04:35:38,989 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Volumes/photo' 
2025-11-17 04:35:38,990 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.makedirs' after 0.000(s), this was the 1st time calling it.
2025-11-17 04:35:38,990 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 129 - ⚠️  fileutil: SMB error: retrying mount SMB alias /Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/Export/export/working/nas_export_alias.alias to continue...
2025-11-17 04:35:40,279 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 145 - ✅  fileutil: re-mounted SMB alias successfully.
(...)
2025-11-17 13:38:09,254 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 57] Socket is not connected: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
2025-11-17 13:38:09,255 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.unlink' after 107.058(s), this was the 1st time calling it.
2025-11-17 13:38:09,255 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 129 - ⚠️  fileutil: SMB error: retrying mount SMB alias /Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/Export/export/working/nas_export_alias.alias to continue...
2025-11-17 13:38:12,885 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 145 - ✅  fileutil: re-mounted SMB alias successfully.
2025-11-17 13:38:23,269 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
(...)
2025-11-17 17:15:06,738 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
(...)
2025-11-17 21:49:59,879 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 57] Socket is not connected: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
2025-11-17 21:49:59,903 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.unlink' after 107.487(s), this was the 1st time calling it.
2025-11-17 21:49:59,903 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 129 - ⚠️  fileutil: SMB error: retrying mount SMB alias /Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/Export/export/working/nas_export_alias.alias to continue...
2025-11-17 21:50:02,413 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 145 - ✅  fileutil: re-mounted SMB alias successfully.
2025-11-17 21:50:15,888 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
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2025-11-18 07:31:52,948 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 57] Socket is not connected: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
2025-11-18 07:31:52,948 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.unlink' after 106.541(s), this was the 1st time calling it.
2025-11-18 07:31:52,948 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 129 - ⚠️  fileutil: SMB error: retrying mount SMB alias /Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/Export/export/working/nas_export_alias.alias to continue...
2025-11-18 07:31:53,120 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 145 - ✅  fileutil: re-mounted SMB alias successfully.
2025-11-18 07:32:03,242 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 57] Socket is not connected: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
2025-11-18 07:32:03,242 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.unlink' after 116.835(s), this was the 2nd time calling it.
2025-11-18 07:32:03,242 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 129 - ⚠️  fileutil: SMB error: retrying mount SMB alias /Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/Export/export/working/nas_export_alias.alias to continue...
2025-11-18 07:32:03,389 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 145 - ✅  fileutil: re-mounted SMB alias successfully.
2025-11-18 07:32:13,444 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 57] Socket is not connected: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
2025-11-18 07:32:13,444 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.unlink' after 127.037(s), this was the 3rd time calling it.
2025-11-18 07:32:13,476 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 57] Socket is not connected: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
2025-11-18 07:32:13,476 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.makedirs' after 0.000(s), this was the 1st time calling it.
2025-11-18 07:32:13,476 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 129 - ⚠️  fileutil: SMB error: retrying mount SMB alias /Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/Export/export/working/nas_export_alias.alias to continue...
2025-11-18 07:32:13,575 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 145 - ✅  fileutil: re-mounted SMB alias successfully.
2025-11-18 07:32:23,630 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Volumes/photo' 
2025-11-18 07:32:23,631 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.makedirs' after 10.154(s), this was the 2nd time calling it.
2025-11-18 07:32:23,631 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 129 - ⚠️  fileutil: SMB error: retrying mount SMB alias /Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/Export/export/working/nas_export_alias.alias to continue...
2025-11-18 07:32:24,738 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 145 - ✅  fileutil: re-mounted SMB alias successfully.
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2025-11-20 01:13:04,906 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 57] Socket is not connected: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
2025-11-20 01:13:04,918 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.unlink' after 105.992(s), this was the 1st time calling it.
2025-11-20 01:13:04,918 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 129 - ⚠️  fileutil: SMB error: retrying mount SMB alias /Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/Export/export/working/nas_export_alias.alias to continue...
2025-11-20 01:13:05,204 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 145 - ✅  fileutil: re-mounted SMB alias successfully.
2025-11-20 01:13:15,355 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Volumes/photo/path/to/Photo.xxx' 
2025-11-20 01:13:15,399 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 85 - ⚠️  fileutil: exception: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Volumes/photo' 
2025-11-20 01:13:15,399 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - after.py - 44 - Finished call to 'osxphotos.fileutil.FileUtilMacOS.makedirs' after 0.000(s), this was the 1st time calling it.
2025-11-20 01:13:15,399 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 129 - ⚠️  fileutil: SMB error: retrying mount SMB alias /Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/Export/export/working/nas_export_alias.alias to continue...
2025-11-20 01:13:16,934 - osxphotos.fileutil - WARNING - fileutil.py - 145 - ✅  fileutil: re-mounted SMB alias successfully.

4. Got your point on moving location for makedirs -- will work on that later on.