Ah !!! Finally ,this worked.

Thank you very much !!!

Ok

Sorry .. it is mounted at /home/abhilzs/MediaHome/ where abhilzs is my username. According to one of the tutorials i followed while setting up the media server it had asked me to mount the drive to a folder in 'home' so i had set it up that way. Didnt know the implications of it that time. In any ...

The files are in /home/MediaHome/ . That is the location of the files that i am trying to access. That in itself is an external HDD mounted to that folder.

Is there a specific user/process/service for filebot that i should grant access to [using chown] ?

I had a similar issue with accessing these folders through plex. I was able to fix it by granting 'plex' access to those folders . Tried the same with 'filebot' but it didnt work.

I updated to 17.04 and was able to install a newer version of filebot. But now i cant access the folders that contain my files. It gives an error message saying "permission denied'

I am on 16.04 LTS. I am new to the Linux environment so need to look up what Gnome app and Snappy packages are
Let me try it out and see will let you know .

My version is 4.6.1 -ubuntu..is there a newer version?

If so can you provide the steps to update it , i dont see any pending updates in the ubuntu store

I am starting to see the same issue with my Filebot application FileNotFoundException: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebot/scripts/m1/sysinfo.groovy java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebot/scripts/m1/sysinfo.groovy at net.filebot.web.WebRequest.fetch(WebRequest ...