|
Mac GeekeryGet your geek on. |
|
blog advertising is good for you
recent popular content
User login
|
As more and more of our machines are running on Tiger this issue has become more and more of an annoyance. When a user exports, saves, downloads… a file often the document is not visible on the finder. Originally I thought this was only on Server Volumes and maybe an issue with 10.3 server to 10.4 client. However it is now apparent that it is on the client as a whole, the only foolproof work around is to relaunch the finder (but I wouldnt really call this a solution) The files can be seen via the terminal and files on Server Volumes can be seen from other machines. If you wait long enough they do update, but in a production environment this is no good. No one seems to be able to help, including Mr Google, Anyone Know?
About hacktop
Author Biography An IT Department of 1, so many heads its hard to get tops that fit. |
This issue is quite old, but should have been resolved in 10.4. In 10.4 the Finder subscribes to kernel filesystem events for any directory it is displaying and updates the windows when the kernel tells it that the filesystem changed in that area.
This works on AFP volumes as well as the server detects the change, tells AFP, and AFP tells the clients to update their view.
If this isn’t working for you, then something more fundamental is going on with your system. Have you tested various systems, both ones that use the network and ones that do not? Have you updated all the way to 10.4.8 + Security Updates? Have you tried both AFP and SMB shares?
Mac OS X Internals might be a good help for this as well, so that you know how kevent is working here.