Mac Files on NAS???

[hhscr]

I have question I hope someone can help me with.

I copied some files from my Mac onto a NAS drive.

I can open the folder on a windows machine and the files have been copied to the NAS.

When I go into Finder on the Mac and Open the folder on the NAS no files show up.

Can someone help me determine why?

[Yama]

What kind of format do you have on your NAS drive?

[hhscr]

It is whatever it comes with.

It is a Raid Box so it has its own OS and I think it is a Linux system.

[aerosolcheese]

Just out of curiosity, what brand is it? I have a BUffalo Terastation NAS that I have had for a couple of years and have never had this problem...

[Yama]

You said your Mac is recognizing the drive exists just not reading it...

Just a wild guess but I would look into how the drives are formatted on your NAS. If they are NTFS I believe that is going to be your problem. With Fat32 you can read/write on mac and pc.

[hhscr]

Originally Posted by aerosolcheese

Just out of curiosity, what brand is it? I have a BUffalo Terastation NAS that I have had for a couple of years and have never had this problem...

It is a Thecus 4100pro.

Originally Posted by Yama

You said your Mac is recognizing the drive exists just not reading it...

Just a wild guess but I would look into how the drives are formatted on your NAS. If they are NTFS I believe that is going to be your problem. With Fat32 you can read/write on mac and pc.

The Mac sees the RAID Box and will also read the folders and data that is already on the Box.

It seems that when I have the MAC add to a folder, it is the data that was added by the MAC that the MAC wont see after it copies it to the Box.

[aerosolcheese]

How long are the file names? According to a document that I found on the Thecus site, "Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X can not see files on the network with names made up
of over 32 characters." Perhaps thats the issue?

[Yama]

http://www.virtual-hideout.net/revie...ro/index.shtml

"*Note: I have been speaking to Thecus frequently about this. And they have a new firmware version in the works that they claim will fix the problem with OSX. However, OSX can not write to NTFS partitions without 3rd party add-ons (that are not always 100% reliable), and Windows can not deal with HFS+ formatted drives. Which leaves FAT32 as the only cross system compatible format."

Without looking too closely it looks like your drives are NTFS. Although this is for a different Thecus.

[hhscr]

Originally Posted by aerosolcheese

How long are the file names? According to a document that I found on the Thecus site, "Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X can not see files on the network with names made up
of over 32 characters." Perhaps thats the issue?

I don't think they are longer than 32, but I will check.

Thanks thats good info to know!

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OK I have done a little more playing around and it seems that it is this one share on the device that is giving the trouble.

I can read and write to other shares and it works fine. But when I write a file to this particular share it writes it and them immediately it disappears from the finder window, as if it is being hidden for some reason. How do I go about checking to see if for some reason the items in this folder are marked to be hidden from finder???