Drive mounting display issues.

[electricpig]

We're having display issues in PathFinder with mounted drives, either FireWire or CD/DVD. It often takes a long time (sometimes forever) to display a new drive in the Volumes list (or under 'Computer'). Switching to Apples Finder and more often than not the newly mounted drive is displayed.

Random, and confusing.

Any clues?

10.3.2 on Dual G5's

[neilio]

I don't see this problem with firewire drives per se, though I do see this happen occasionally with mounted disk images.

I'm not sure what to recommend, except for trying to repair permissions as that always seems to fix intermittent problems. You also might want to try trashing your Path Finder preferences to see if that clears things up. I use Path Finder with a wide variety of firewire drives with no problems.

[knghtbrd]

I've found that doing something that kinda makes it refresh the list usually brings up the list. It just doesn't always think to refresh if it doesn't know that it needs to.

[Durandal]

Quitting and relaunching Path Finder usually does the trick. I don't know if it gets its information from the disk arbitration table, like the Finder does, but you might try doing a disktool -r to refresh the arbitration table.

I would like to see a "refresh" function to force Path Finder to refresh the disks, though. Also, kqueue support would probably help.

[Darkside]

I've been experiencing a similar problem with an external FireWire drive.

Although the drive itself shows up in the root in a reasonable amount of time, the contents of the drive take a very long time to display. As someone else indicated, it's often faster to relaunch the Finder to access the files.

Some things I noticed:
- When you click on the drive, the spinning process indicator and stop icon show up in the bottom-right corner of the window, but after a few seconds, they vanish without any contents being displayed.
- If a different volume is displayed before clicking on the FireWire drive, the column title and contents of the previous volume is displayed even while the FireWire drive is selected.

[Anonymous]

This happens to me now and then too. Seems like whenever my machine has been on for days w/o a restart. Quitting PF and launching the Finder then allows me to see my disk. Really an annoying problem, I must admit.

[neilio]

I have confirmation that this is an OS bug. We're waiting to hear back from Apple on whether or not this will be fixed any time soon, or a workaround.