File from AFP volume vanished!

I had a user yesterday attempt to modify the name of an InDesign CS3 file she had been working on a shared volume and it just disappeared on her. She stated that there was a error "30 or something" and then the file just disappeared. I did a search myself on the (G5 Xserve - 10.4.9) server and I could not locate the file anywhere.
This server has not caused us any problems in the past, has 75% free space on the boot drive and 50% free space on the Xserve RAID the file in question resided on.
Any ideas as to what may have happened to this file and how I might prevent this from happening in the future?

Although I have not seen this behavior with CS3 products, such errors are much more common with CS2 products. Since you didn't actually see what happened, I'd go with the following generic suggestions:
1. Update your server to Mac OS X Server 10.4.11. (I noticed you're still at 10.4.9.)
2. Make sure that InDesign CS3 is up-to-date (5.0.1).
3. Was the user attempting to rename the file using Finder or Adobe Bridge or the Version Cue save panel? (Hint: Just use Finder!)
4. If the user is, in fact, using a CS2 product, the best thing to do would be to copy the file to the local computer, modify it, then copy it back to the server.
--Gerrit

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Originally Posted by chas
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