I want to use the File integration so that I can create and write to my own logfile.
It appears to me that the addition to the configuration.yaml doesn’t do anything because the integration was not installed - however the integration won’t install unless I give it a valid file path - which I can’t do until the configuration file is accepted. I ran the configuration check and restarted home assistant so I don’t believe there is anything wrong with my syntax
Hi - you posted twice. Here is the other one. Can you please delete this one?
You must have set up external dirs incorrectly. Your logs show that. What did you try?
@jchh I don’t see duplicates. You just linked to this post, are you sure you weren’t running into a browser issue?
Your link just sends me back to here. I can’t find another post I’ve made
Sorry, both - I could have sworn I saw 2 versions, 2 minutes apart - I assumed it somehow posted twice.
Please accept my apologies.
I’ll try adding the "homeassistant: " line as in
homeassistant:
allowlist_external_dirs:
- “/config”
I assumed that would have been already done higher up in the hierarchy. I’ll let you know if that helps
No problem, Not John 
Ok sorted, my fault for making an assumption!