Finder & WebDav folders

When I connect to a WebDav folder using Finder it is painfully slow. Is this normal? And, if so, would anyone know of a real-time sync program that works between a Mac and WebDav folders?

I had the same problem a while back and it had to do with the .DS_Store file. Some time back in the 10.3 server days Apple hacked the http.conf file to stop the uploading of this invisible file because it was considered to be a security risk. The reason you can upload files is that even if you do a "Select All" command the finder will not grab the .DS_Store file, but because every folder on OS X contains the .DS_Store file when you grab a folder you get the disallowed file with it and Apache will refuse the upload. If you do not have nested folders in your upload you can quickly use the command line to delete the .DS_Store before you upload. If what you are uploading has many nested folders the you may need to get a utility that will strip all .DS_Store files from your files. There are a number of them on the net. As a last resort you can hack your http.conf file and remove the "fix" Apple put in.
Hope this helps you out.
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Assuming this book supports standard Open... dialogues the first of these is what you want:
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b: On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.

Finding invisible folders

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