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MacOS directories incomplete
My network is small with only Macs connected. It accesses the ReadyNAS via SMB. One directory has about 16K files and/or folders. Often when I open this directory only some of the folders show up in ...
I have no solution, but would consider the following:
As only macs are on your network, why not using AFP instead of SMB services for workstation to nas communication. As the macs would be "native speakers" in that environment, things might be easier. In the end you might be able to get rid of SMB completely.
Retired_Member wrote:
As only macs are on your network, why not using AFP instead of SMB services for workstation to nas communication.
This will work now, though it is important to note that Apple has deprecated AFP - so it might not work in the long term.
Blues11 wrote:
One directory has about 16K files and/or folders. Often when I open this directory only some of the folders show up in Mac's Finder and the total Size is completely wrong, often showing more space than the 4 hard drives in the NAS have.
What firmware are you running? I recall seeing this issue quite a while ago, but I haven't seen a recent report.
Yes, with Apple moving away from AFP there is specific functionality that will only work using SMB.
I'm running the latest firmware, 6.9.3.
What's strange is that the directory will sometimes display all of the folders and other times it will display just a random quantity. After a while (sometimes 20 or 30 minutes, sometimes a few minutes) the entire directory will be displayed.
It's just so unnerving to try to scroll to a directory and it seemingly doesn't exist.
Hi Blues11
OS 6.8 made an enhancement on the SMB protocol for MacOS users.
The issue might be with the loading of directories with large amount of files. Since you are on OS 6.9.3 have you tried enabling this enhancement?
Hope this helps!
Regards
It's been a while and I came to check if there was a solution to the problem. I have the time because I created a directory and copied some files to it, but when I moved to the higher level folder the directory I just created is not there. It's been about fifteen minutes and I was hoping it would show up by now (along with perhaps four or five hundred other directories in that folder), but so far no luck. Maybe another ten or twenty minutes and the directory listing will be accurate.
Also, I thought I had replied to the earlier message, but I see that I may not have. However, I did enable the enhanced SMB several months ago. It didn't seem to do anything to fix this problem.
Thank you.
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