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Yep that fixed it.

Ah, not what I was expecting! ext4 is a proper file system. Good. Direct SATA connection -- Good -- this rules out flaky USB enclosures and CIFS/SMB networking devices that don't know how to work properly. The wide permissions being deliberate I can understand, please make sure to re-attach the doo...

Need more information about the external drive -- most importantly, is it using a FAT filesystem, or a proper one like ext4? How is it connected (USB, network?) Model number etc. (so others can Google what you've got). It is possible that the drive is using a FAT file system (which is pretty cluele...

I can't seem to be able to make zoneminder use an external drive. Despite having set the ownership and permissions of the directory correctly, it still fails.
Take a look at the attached images.
What am I missing?