# Debug or DebugWriteInput path for MacOs
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/debug-or-debugwriteinput-path-for-macos/70700
**Category:** Web Sources Discussion
**Created:** [February 16, 2026, 12:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/debug-or-debugwriteinput-path-for-macos/70700 "2026-02-16T00:07:17Z")
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### Author:  [@bharting](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bharting)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 12:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/debug-or-debugwriteinput-path-for-macos/70700/1 "2026-02-16T00:07:17Z")
I have seen we should use absolute paths for Debug and DebugWriteInput files. In MacOs, those look like this:
Debug "ON" "/Volumes/Transitorium/tmp/debug.out"
Debug "ON" "/Users/bill/Documents/debug.out"
It doesn’t matter what I enter, I do not get a log file.
Same issue with DebugWriteInput:
DebugWriteInput "/Volumes/Transitorium/tmp/debug-input.out"
DebugWriteInput "/Users/bill/Documents/debug-input.out"
What format should we be using on MacOS?
Thanks,
Bill
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### Author:  [@moebear](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/moebear)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/debug-or-debugwriteinput-path-for-macos/70700/2 "2026-02-16T17:18:09Z")
I’m not sure if the issue you're encountering is the same as mine. Since the "Developing Tag Sources" manual is somewhat ambiguous, I’d like to share my solution with you.
Simply put, you need to write it as shown below. There should be no syntax errors, and it must successfully connect to a valid, reachable location:
[ParserScriptIndex]=...
debug "on" "debug.txt"
DebugWriteInput "debug-input\_Index.out" ...