Cannot import from home sharing since Mojave. Unknown error (-50)

I'd be surprised if there is an issue with your permissions, however offhand this is only thing I can think of right now.

Use Get Info on the folders you want to copy to or from in turn. Click the lock at the bottom right to make changes. Make sure that locked isn't ticked and that your own account has read & write access, then use the gear icon to apply the permissions to enclosed items and confirm.

tt2

I don't know why it isn't working, but in the meantime there is nothing to stop you sharing the media folder of each machine to the other over your network. You can copy content into the Automatically Add to iTunes folder inside the media folder to import it.

tt2

I'm having the same issue...although I can't specifically confirm that it is due to Mojave (it may have been an issue before the upgrade and I just didn't notice).

I have a MacBook Pro 2018 that I upgraded today to Mojave and I am using home sharing with my main iTunes library on an iMAC...it was running High Sierra. While songs that I have purchased from iTunes on my iMac show up in the iTunes library on my MBP automatically, I noticed that I can't use the import function to import songs from my iMac to my MBP. This is true for songs that I downloaded into my iTunes Library from sources other than the iTunes store...but it is also true for songs from the iTunes store. When I try to import the song I get the message: There was a problem downloading "Song X". An unknown error occurred (-50). I thought the issue might be related to the fact that I was running Mojave on my MBP and High Sierra on my iMac...so I upgraded my iMac to Mojave as well...but the problem remains.

Perhaps on a related note, there also seems to be an issue with how Recently Added view works via Home Sharing. If I am pointed in iTunes at my MBP Library in the Recently Added View and I click on the Album, I will see the song. When I use Home Sharing to look at the Library on my iMac, if I am in Recently Added and I click on the Album even ones downloaded from iTunes, the song is not listed. It is somehow .a function of when the song was entered into the iTunes Library...songs in the library for more than 3 months seem to be ok.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? I have verified that both my MBP and my iMac are on the same home Wifi network. In addition, if I use the iTunes Add to Library function and connect to the directory on my iMac where the song is located, I can import it that way...so it doesn't appear to be a networking issue

I am experiencing exactly the same problem as you have described here, and the problem only started after I installed Mojave on my iMac, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Hopefully, Apple will sort out this glitch in the new operating system soon. I've not been able to find a solution using any of the tips suggested here.

Definitely an issue with Homesharing in Mojave. As an update to my previous post, I thought that songs I purchased from iTunes on my iMac were still being downloaded to iTunes on my MBP...and that the homesharing issue was only with music I imported on my own. In fact it appears to be a problem with all music. I just bought a song on iTunes via my iMac and when I go to my MBP it does not show up.

Does anyone from Apple monitor these discussions?

DASchicago wrote:

Does anyone from Apple monitor these discussions?

No. Use Feedback - iTunes - Apple.

tt2

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2

I think I'm out of ideas on this one. 😕

tt2

Rebuild your iTunes library, a slight hassle but worked for me. (delete old library file, and re import your files to build a new one)