10.5.1 Worse ... airport disk invisible now

The airport disk was already badly managed with 10.5.0.
Now with 10.5.1 it is worse, I can see the name of my airport disk on the left side of the finder but when I try to connect ... nothing happens and the folders on my airport disk do not show up. Connect or disconnect doesn't work either ...
same behaviour on my 3 macs ...

Yep. I'm seeing the same thing. 1 TB external attached to the AEBS. iMac with 10.4.11 sees it and can read and write data just fine. Dell PC with XP, same thing. G4 Powerbook with 10.5.1, no dice. I can see the AEBS under shared in the sidebar, but not the drive. If I do actually get the drive to show up and try and open it, it will show me as logged in but no data, and it also shows the disk as read only. The base is running the 7.2.1 firmware. It worked OK before the update. Glad I've only installed Leopard on this non critical laptop so far. It's been pretty much a disaster. It's not getting anywhere near my work Macbook Pro for a long time.

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  • Files/folders not showing up with Airport Disk but are there?

    I've recently bought the Airport Extreme, I was all excited about Airport Disk but there is a weird, extremly annoying bug.
    On my USB hard drive connected using Airport Disk, I have a folder called music. When I open this folder, OS X starts reading the directory and files/folders show up one by one, but then it just all disappears - and the folder shows nothing. In Windows, it shows nothing at all in the folder. However, when I reconnect the drive using USB to my MacBook Pro, all my music is there and I can see all the files.
    I have a feeling this is something to do with this:
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305040
    as I have German and Japanese music files imported by iTunes which are not named in English (ie the filenames are encoded in Japanese etc etc)
    Another strange thing is, in Windows, if I type the direct path to a folder (which is inside the supposed empty folder) I will be able to access it.
    What's going on Apple?...
    Anyone else got this issue?...
    Thanks
    macbook pro   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

    Hi Everyone,
    I was experiencing the same. on the XP box it just wouldnt show anything period and on the Mac, the finder would briefly display the contents of the drive before disappearing. Spoke to Tier 2 and they thought I should reformat the drive, since he thought it likely that due to severing the drives connection that the format was corrupt...
    I did manage to fix it myself and I'll tell you how. First I hardwired the drive via USB to the Mac. noticed an item called FROM which had no size, no date modified and type was --. I deleted the RECYCLED folder (which results when you delete something from the drive thru XP)
    then i hardwired it to the PC. deleted the "FROM" folder which in this case was a file folder, and 237MB approx in size. I also deleted the ".DSStore" and ".Trashes" files. .DSStore is basically the icon cache and .Trashes is when you delete something on the airdisk from the Mac. reconnected the drive and POOF! it worked Problem is now solved.
    So to summate, i think in my case it was more the discrepancy between the FROM not showing up as anything on the Mac, versus it being a full fledged folder to windows xp. i just thought i would pass this along...
    Macbook C2D 2.0GHZ   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

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