Available jails showing error (Honestly not sure what's going on...)

I believe this all started when I was brave (see also stupid) enough to try to add a folder in the iocage for emby via windows since I'm a bit weak at the command line and was getting an error that a folder path within emby didn't exist. shortly after adding the folder I upgraded to 11.4.1 and the system wouldn't boot. I suspected a bad usb drive to I cloned to another usb drive and it was showing the same issues as the original drive. I was however able to install on the new usb drive and transfer the configuration to the new usb drive. after booting though I ran into several issues that I wish I had better documented...

Since the new usb drive had the configuration I wanted (user accounts and groups etc) I exported the conifg and wiped the usb drive entirely. After uploading the config I started to install emby and got the error below.

When selecting available jails I receive the following error:

Error: concurrent.futures.process._RemoteTraceback:
"""
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iocage_lib/ioc_plugin.py", line 643, in fetch_plugin_index
self.__clone_repo(git_server, git_working_dir)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iocage_lib/ioc_plugin.py", line 1255, in __clone_repo
porcelain.pull(destination, repo_url, errstream=devnull)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dulwich/porcelain.py", line 826, in pull
r.reset_index(tree=tree)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dulwich/repo.py", line 950, in reset_index
validate_path_element=validate_path_element)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dulwich/index.py", line 530, in build_index_from_tree
obj, entry.mode, full_path, honor_filemode=honor_filemode)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dulwich/index.py", line 460, in build_file_from_blob
os.chmod(target_path, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: b'/mnt/z2_4tbx5/iocage/.plugin_index/madsonic.json'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/process.py", line 175, in _process_worker
r = call_item.fn(*call_item.args, **call_item.kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/worker.py", line 131, in main_worker
res = loop.run_until_complete(coro)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/asyncio/base_events.py", line 468, in run_until_complete
return future.result()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/worker.py", line 91, in _run
return await self._call(name, serviceobj, methodobj, params=args, job=job)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/worker.py", line 84, in _call
return methodobj(*params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/worker.py", line 84, in _call
return methodobj(*params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/schema.py", line 668, in nf
return f(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/plugins/jail.py", line 530, in list_resource
header=False)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iocage_lib/iocage.py", line 914, in fetch
icon=True, official=official)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iocage_lib/ioc_plugin.py", line 650, in fetch_plugin_index
_callback=self.callback)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iocage_lib/ioc_common.py", line 90, in logit
_callback(content, exception)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iocage_lib/ioc_common.py", line 64, in callback
raise callback_exception(message)
RuntimeError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: b'/mnt/z2_4tbx5/iocage/.plugin_index/madsonic.json'
"""

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/main.py", line 166, in call_method
result = await self.middleware.call_method(self, message)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/main.py", line 1097, in call_method
return await self._call(message['method'], serviceobj, methodobj, params, app=app, io_thread=False)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/main.py", line 1042, in _call
return await self._call_worker(name, *args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/main.py", line 1062, in _call_worker
return await self.run_in_proc(main_worker, name, args, job)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/main.py", line 996, in run_in_proc
return await self.run_in_executor(self.__procpool, method, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/middlewared/main.py", line 972, in run_in_executor
return await loop.run_in_executor(pool, functools.partial(method, *args, **kwargs))
RuntimeError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: b'/mnt/z2_4tbx5/iocage/.plugin_index/madsonic.json'

To be honest I have no idea what it means... but I tried then to wipe the new USB drive and start from scratch instead of uploading a config. Unfortunately, I'm still getting this error when searching for available jails.

If anyone knows what I can do (aside from wiping my pool and starting over) I'd really appreciate the help.