techguy
Dec 02, 2004, 08:48 AM
HI all,
I'm a sysadmin posting a question on behalf of my users. To get around Finder's problem of being slow to refresh folder contents on Windows server shares, we've started trying out Pathfinder. This fixes that problem but it has seemed to introduce a new, stranger problem: a file that has just been updated (by another user) opens up as the older version, even though that older version is no longer in the folder.
Here are more details:
We have a windows 2000 server that has one volume being shared (via services for macintosh) to both Mac and PC users. There are two folders that store Quark 4 and Word files on this share, an old version and current version folder. When a user has to edit one of these files, he/she would copy the file from the current version folder to their local drive to begin editing. Then he would move the original file to the old version folder. This is to let other users know that this file is being worked on. Once the changes are finished, the newly updated file is put back in the current version folder. Throughout this, the file name is never changed, so both folders have the same files with the same filenames, just a different version.
Here's where the problem happens. When another user tries to open the just-updated file from the current version folder, he gets the original copy that was placed in the old version folder. If he tries again in a minute or two, then he gets the correct, updated version.
This sounds like a simple user file management error, but it's happened several times with more than one user in these past few weeks since pathfinder was installed. Because the new version eventually does open, it seems like OS X, Finder or Pathfinder caches not just file listings, but actual files. Maybe this is related to OS X's own refresh problems that caused us to try pathfinder in the first place, but either way, we're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Anybody have any solutions or suggestions?? :?:
I'm a sysadmin posting a question on behalf of my users. To get around Finder's problem of being slow to refresh folder contents on Windows server shares, we've started trying out Pathfinder. This fixes that problem but it has seemed to introduce a new, stranger problem: a file that has just been updated (by another user) opens up as the older version, even though that older version is no longer in the folder.
Here are more details:
We have a windows 2000 server that has one volume being shared (via services for macintosh) to both Mac and PC users. There are two folders that store Quark 4 and Word files on this share, an old version and current version folder. When a user has to edit one of these files, he/she would copy the file from the current version folder to their local drive to begin editing. Then he would move the original file to the old version folder. This is to let other users know that this file is being worked on. Once the changes are finished, the newly updated file is put back in the current version folder. Throughout this, the file name is never changed, so both folders have the same files with the same filenames, just a different version.
Here's where the problem happens. When another user tries to open the just-updated file from the current version folder, he gets the original copy that was placed in the old version folder. If he tries again in a minute or two, then he gets the correct, updated version.
This sounds like a simple user file management error, but it's happened several times with more than one user in these past few weeks since pathfinder was installed. Because the new version eventually does open, it seems like OS X, Finder or Pathfinder caches not just file listings, but actual files. Maybe this is related to OS X's own refresh problems that caused us to try pathfinder in the first place, but either way, we're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Anybody have any solutions or suggestions?? :?: