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I used finder to copy tons of files to my NAS (Synology). This worked more or less well. Those files are used/modified from both Windows and Mac Computers.
Now when I access those directories from Mac, I see in finder a some folders greyed, and hence not accessible anymore. Using Terminal I looked at the permissions and attributes which looked ok for me. The Invisible Attribute is not set.
I saw that on all those directories the attribute "com.apple.FinderInfo" was set. I deleted those attributes with actually no effect ...
What else could I try to access those directories/files again ?
By the way - In other programs, like ForkLift or PathFinder I can see and access those files normally.
Thanks and brgds
Patrick

as an addition - the files/directories are stored on an external hard drive formated with FAT32.
Could this be an issue ?
tks, Patrick

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