Introduction

I’ve moved my iTunes music library content to my NAS. I’m using automount to keep iTunes happy without losing the connection to the files. After upgrading to macOS Catalina, automount did not work as it used to.

Changed structure of filesystem

Reason is the changed structure in the APFS container. If you have a look at the disk utility, it will show you a system container and a user container. The system contains macOS and is write protected, while the user container contains all your apps, data and so on.

You’ll just have to prepend your existing automount paths with /System/Volumes/Data. Now you’ll just have to run

sudo automount -vc

and the automounts are working again.

I had to change the iTunes settings back to my automount folder, as the upgrade to Catalina reset it to its default location in your users folder.