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There is another long thread on the Airport Disk, and I am not sure if this is the same problem. My situation is that my file server died recently, and I am looking for its replacement. Airport Disk with my new base station appears ideal because I have a 300GB disk from my dead file server and a USB disk enclosure. I connected the disk to my iMac and formatted it to HFS. While still connected to my iMac, I copied over my iTunes library. This was the second time trying out the airport disk, so I created /Shared and /Users/username to work with file sharing with accounts. I then ejected the disk and connected to my airport base station (gigE, 7.2.1 firmware). My first test was to run a recursive diff between the two iTunes libraries. There were some files that differed, so I ran the diff again and a different set of files were identified as differing! I disconnected all users and moved the disk back to my iMac. I ran the diff again, and there were no differing files!
I haven't yet had time to investigate more, and I am wondering if others have seen similar symptoms.
Dan

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