For full transparency: An issue was found in org-brain [1] due to a change in functionality of org-attach-dir in commit ae9cd4370.
I've given it some thought and figured that particular change in functionality wasn't really needed and not obviously correct either. So org-attach-dir will now check the filesystem (again) to see if the attachment folder from DIR or ID property exist or not. The check can be skipped with a new optional flag. See commit 4b7eda1a2 for the fix. [1] https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain/pull/203 Regards Gustav