Networked drive and files

At work i have the common scenario, my "personality" and documents are all stored on a network drive. I.e. everything i do is off of the network drive. Its backed up. I'm trying to figure out what the best way is to do things. symbolic link v. rsync (etc.) backup.
The goal is to have the documents be able to be spotlighted, but yet backed up. Problem, documents have to be local to be spotlighted in SL or anything else and they are not backed up on my mac, only on network drive. Thoughts. Right now rsync seems to work best (as opposed to symbolic linking) but is kinda primitive. Essentially, all of my data is just backed up once a day to the network drive with a rsync script. That way if i'm off site i can access the files from another computer on the network and just email myself the updated doc and save it on the local machine and have it backed up at the end of the day. Primitive, yes, works barely. Thoughts?

Chronosync might be a good solution for you instead of rsync. It is very flexible and has its own
built in backup scheduler. It can configured just about any way you can dream up.
http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html
Kj ♘

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You said it was a network drive. So is someone else on the network using that same file or may have have left with excel still accessing it on their system?

Network Drives and Bugs - A Word of Caution

A couple of weeks ago I replaced my trusty Buffalo 802.11b/g wireless router with an AirPort Extreme Base Station so that I could set up a network drive using a 500GB USB hard drive attached to the AEBS, which was considerably less expensive than buying a dedicated network drive/file server appliance.
Yesterday my Apple TV lost its network connection for no apparent reason and I was unable to reconnect it. After resetting both the Apple TV and the AEBS I still could not establish a connection due to an "incorrect password" that was not incorrect. After re-entering the same password again into the AEBS and then the Apple TV I could finally reconnect. I would think that this problem would be attributed to a software bug in either the AEBS or the Apple TV.
During the re-syncing process I started getting error messages that iTunes could not find many of my files. It turns out that iTunes could only find files that were imported into it after I moved the library to the network drive. Files that had been imported prior to the network drive had to re-imported back into iTunes before it would recognize the correct file path for these files even though the correct file path to the network drive was specified in the iTunes Preferences.
It appears that iTunes was not automatically checking the library path specified in the Preferences settings for the files it couldn't find, possibly the result of another bug in iTunes.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9) The more I think, the more I think I shouldn't think more.

In any case, it
shouldn't matter whether the files were pre-loaded or
copied over the network as long as the files are
actually on the drive and the specified file path is
correct.
The file path specified in Preferences > Advanced > General just specifies where the iTunes Music Folder is located, not the path to any particular media file, which could be anywhere. Changing this preference affects all future files imported into the Music Folder but not those already in the iTunes library. IOW, this is more like a default location than a global file path.
The library file is a database stored on the local drive in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library. It contains the iTunes metadata reference record for each media file, among other things. There is also an iTunes Music Library.xml file in the ~/Music/iTunes/ folder, used by other applications. (See What are the iTunes library files? for more about this.)
The content of these files is maintained by the iTunes app, not the file system. So if you manually move your iTunes Music Folder to another location (IOW, not through the application), the database may not be updated properly, leading to error messages because the file path info may be wrong.
To avoid this, you should follow the procedure described in iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Music folder or iTunes for Windows: Moving your iTunes Music folder.
I believe ... the lost files in iTunes may be the
result of software bugs in iTunes, Apple TV
and/or AirPort Extreme.
For this much at least, the "bug" is in your expectation of what setting the iTunes preference does, not in the operation of the application itself. It may or may not have anything to do with your other problems, of course.

Lightroom has trouble reading RAW files on my network drive ("The file appears to be unsupported or

Hey guys, I currently run LR5 on Mac OSX. I've had my RAWs on an external HDD and have smart previews built for those files. Recently, I upgraded to a new router, the ASUS RT-N65U, and plugged in my WD My Passport Ultra HDD (FAT32 filesystem) into to. Now I've put my RAWs on the network drive, and verified via MD5 checksums that the files are being read correctly (albeit rather slowly) from the network drive.
However, whenever I try to view one of the photos on the network drive, Lightroom complains, "The file appears to be unsupported or damaged". I've verified via MD5 that the files are not damaged. Does anyone know how I can get LR to be happy with the files on my network drive?
(Bonus question: how do I make my network drive faster?)
Thanks!

Got RAWs from a D7000 and D600, LR v5.2 [922700].
Oddly things are working now... I ejectected the network drive in Finder and reconnected to my router. Lightroom no longer has problems viewing the photos, even after I closed my laptop and reopenned it. I think the problem might occur when my laptop goes to sleep for a long time and I reconnect. Will repoert back when I try that.
I'm using an external HDD attached to my router. The reason I don't plug the external HDD to my laptop directly is I don't want to keep doing it every time I want to access my photos, and my laptop only has limited disk capacity since it's an SSD.

Network drives and System Update updating itself (Error 1327.Invalid Drive)

I have a Windows network share permanently mapped as a network drive on my system. This prevents Lenovo System Update 5 from updating itself.
Here is what happens:
Launch Lenovo System Update and click Next to look for updates.
When 'Searching for agent updates' it will tell me: 'System Update is updating itself. Your copy of System Update needs to be updated. Click OK to begin updating System Update.'
Click OK, Lenovo System Update will download the update and appear to install it.
At the end it will tell me: 'System Update was installed successfully'
Click Close, just to be sure I wait for a while so System Update can finish whatever it is doing in the background (if anything at all).
When nothing appears to happen I launch Lenovo System Update manually and it will tell me it needs to update itself again, and go to the same process as above. The update did not install successfully at all. System update keeps updating itself in a loop.
Next thing I tried is manually downloading the latest System Update version from http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=TVSU-UPDATE
I downloaded systemupdate503-09-17-2013.exe for my Windows 7 machine.
The installer detects to old version of System Update and offers to uninstall that. I click Yes.
A moment later the real error appears: 'Error 1327.Invalid Drive: S:\'
The only thing I can do now is press OK to close the installer.
The S:\ drive is my network drive which is permanently mapped to a share on my NAS.
It is not an invalid drive, S:\ opens fine in Windows Explorer.
I don't know why the System Update installer wants to access my S: drive in the first place. All my applications are installed on C:. While I did move some special folders like My Pictures and My Videos to S:, the relevant folders My Documents and Desktop are still on C:.
I have found a workaround to the problem above:
Close Lenovo System Update completely when it says it needs to update itself.
Run Command Prompt as Administrator (find it in the start menu, righ-click it and 'Run as administrator').
Type 'subst s: c:\' without the quotes. Replace s: with the drive letter of your network drive, and c: should be an existing regular drive.
Now run Lenovo System Update again and let it update itself.
You'll notice System Update now restarts itself after updating and there are no problems.
Once you are done with System Update, type 'subst s: /D' to delete the substituted virtual drive. Don't worry, this will not delete your actual network drive.
The workaround does the job, but it would be nice to see an actual fix from Lenovo. I have a ThinkPad X230 running 64bit Windows 7 Professional if this is relevant.

Please try either of the workaround.
1. Create a new Admin user, log on in that and then you can install Adobe Reader,
or
2. easier solution is just create a dummy folder on your machine anywhere, lets says Folder name "Dummy" in c:\
not go to command prompt
and type subst I: c:\dummy
and you are all set to go.
once you are done, you can remove that virtual drive mapping by
subst I:\ /d
please let me know if works.

Store music on a network drive and access from different computers

hi!
i have several mac's and windows pc's here and a windows server. i want to store my music on the server and let all itunes' access the same library to have ratings etc. all the same on all machines.
when i set the itunes folder to my network drive and open itunes it does not find any of my music.
my next idea was to run itunes on the server and to use the music sharing function but my macs can't access the windows itunes library because of some error -3259. my windows itunes can access the windows itunes without problems, the imacs itunes can't
anyhow its a bad solution when i have to sync my ipods with the server since this one is in the basement
does anybody know something about itunes libraries on a network drive ?
thanks a lot
philip

Hi !
Did nobody has developed a kind of sync tool yet ? Its interesting to know that the library is always stored locally. I think it should be possible then to copy the library from one computer to all others only the network name must be the same on all computers.
I'll try it

I am new to mac. Do I need to store photos on the hard drive to use iPhoto or can I store pics on a network drive and still edit with iPhoto?

I am new to mac. Do I need to store photos on the hard drive to use iPhoto or can I store pics on a network drive and still edit with iPhoto?

iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, exporting, saving edits and sharing the photos.
See this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168
for more. Note also the comment:
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I need help from some Apple people. I have an iPod Touch and I wanted to load it up with some fresh music but I currently don't have a PC. I found an app that would allow me to connect to my 2TB network drive directly and I was able to transfer a bunch of music files to the iPod. Unfortunately, these new files do not show under the Music app and I can't seem to find any way to convince the iPod that they are music. I can play them through the file manager only. Android doesn't have this problem, any music I put on my phone is recognized as music and can be played through any of the music apps. Am I missing something or is Apple to inflexible to handle this?

You can't. The only way to get songs in the Music app is to sync from a computer or to download from iTunes.

Creating a file in network drive and WEB server.

Hi
I tried to create and place a text file in network drive(a folder in a system other that MII
server which is neither FTP nor a webserver) it did not work.while running the transaction using write file action block it throws an error (Authentication failed,Provide valid usermane and password). Is there a way to get the list of files present in the same folder(a folder in a system other that MII server).but i could able to create a file manually.Please help me in this Regard.
Thanks,

Hi Nagireddy,
this topic is covered in several threads here. Try the following link to a thread where there is much information:
[https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=19476763&messageID=6478362]
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Word and Excel hang "downloading" file from network drive - copy file to be able to open it

Word or Excel hang trying to open files on a network drive maybe after an untidy close.
Symptoms: pick the file from a pinned entry on recent list or even direct from File!Open... or by double clicking on the file from file explorer. Word/Excel show in the middle of the status line a comment "Downloading:filename "
a progress bar, that shows no progress, and a white cross on a red circle to close. Some minutes later may Excel/Word say could not open filename.
I have removed any temporary copies of the file prefixed with the ~. However there are no documents shown in any document recovery pane.
If I rename the original file the problem is still there.
I can only clear the problem by working on a copy of the file. It works with either a new name of if the copy is used to replace the original file.
It seems file explorer's "copy" is clearing something within the file that is causing this problem.
I have seen the same issue with both Excel and Word documents in native Office 2010 format.
Is there a better way to clear this issue?
Thanks

Hi,
It doesn't hang/crash, does it?
If you could provide the exact error message, it would be preferred to determine the cause.
You can also try the steps below to modify the registry, as mentioned in this thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ba5114e0-98dd-4b44-a078-373df8899048/word-2007-issue-slow-opening-files?forum=word
Note your 12.0 represents Office 2007, 14.0 is for Office 2010.
Important
This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the
registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry,
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Back-up-the-registry
Word
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.14\Shell\Open\Command
Rename Subkey “Command” to “Old_Command”
Rename Key “ddeexec” to “Old_ddeexec”
Using FileType Manager change .xls from Word.Sheet.8 to Word.Sheet.14 In the Open Command append “%1”
.docx In the Open Command append “%1”
Excel
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Document.14\Shell\Open\Command
Rename Subkey “Command” to “Old_Command”
Rename Key “ddeexec” to “Old_ddeexec”
Using FileType Manager change .xls from Excel.Sheet.8 to Excel.Sheet.14 In the Open Command append “%1”
.xlsx In the Open Command append “%1”
If the issue persists, you can also read this KB below and let me know if it is helpful:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313937/en-us
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

How to create a shared network drive and enforce it with password?

Dear All,
As stated, i would like to create shared network drive within my office to my department to share file and document. I would also like to have that network drive to be enforce by password protection. I would like this solution be native to Microsoft
before i result to any 3rd party solution.
I'm deeply grateful for anyone who can provide me with an solution or suggestion. :)
Thanks so much,
Regards,
Aiphos Hoo

Hi，
If you're in a domain, then as S Guna siad, you should guarantee appropriate permissions to users.
If you're not in a domain, then you can use "Password protected sharing", but this setting doesn't have effect on computers in a homegroup
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings, All networks, turn on "Password protected sharing"
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/share-files-with-someone#1TC=windows-7
Yolanda Zhu
TechNet Community Support

Network Drive and 3 Macs- trying to share music

Help
I want to reconfigure my music storage the right way to avoid the problems I'm having
My set up: 3 Macs and one large network drive
Mac mirror door (non-intel)
iMac (intel)
Mac Mini (Intel)
1 terabyte (RAID 5) Snapserver network drive
I am hoping to store all of the music on the network drive, let each Mac "point" to the music and not load music files onto each mac
When I use the advanced preferences and share the same folder with all music I am getting duplicates every time
All three mac local itunes libraries are a mess with lots of duplicates
Do you have a solution?
Would Library Manager and/or Dupin help me??
I am willing to reload/ move music, etc. I just want to do it right.
Thanks in advance
Mike

You can't. The only way to get songs in the Music app is to sync from a computer or to download from iTunes.

Network Drive Hidden Files

When I modify files saved on network drives, a hidden file is created on the network drive that bothers my co-workers. I originally dealt with a .DS_Store file in every folder I accessed on the network drive. I researched and found the support topic related to this issue. I used the command:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
There are no more .DS_Store files, but now, every time I modify something on the network drive, a hidden file appears for the modified file. For instance, I save a Word file Doc-1.doc and a ._Doc-1.doc hidden file is created. Also, if I move or copy a file to the network drive, the same thing (drag and drop x.pdf and ._x.pdf hidden folder.
The single .DS_Store file was bad enough, but now every file I access has a hidden file with it. Any commands to prevent this from happening?

The '._' files contain meta-data specific to the Mac. Contained therein are things like custom icons, the label color for the file, the file type, the file creator, etc.
The Mac only creates those files if the filesystem being written too doesn't natively handle Mac file and resource data. If you can mount the filesystem using AFP instead of NFS or SMB/CIFS, the problem will go away (and AFP also has the benefit of being faster). There's really no way to disable the creation of the '._' files outright.
There are four ways to address the issue:
1. Let your co-workers get over it. Any decent CIFS implementation will hide the '._' files so they won't see them. The files cause no harm, so it shouldn't matter.
2. Manually delete the '._' files. You can do this periodically, even write a script to do it and have it run automatically on a schedule. However, when you delete the files, be cognizant that you are throwing away some information. OS X is going to have to guess the file type, and you won't be able to use custom icons or icon label colors.
3. Use BlueHarvest ($13 download; 30-day free trial). This monitors file creation and deletes '._' just after they're written. You can set rules to delete '._' only for certain types of files too.
4. Use DAVE. DAVE preserves the file meta-data on Windows shares that support alternative data streams by saving the data in an ADS. It should work with most CIFS-type servers.
You might also ask your sysadmin if it's possible to add Mac File Services for Windows -- which lets you access Windows shares as native OS X AFP shares.

Unavailable mapped network drive hangs file explorer

I am using Windows 8.1 Pro (x64) and I have this problem from beginning.
I have mapped two network drives, one is my home NAS and second is shared network storage in our office.
When I open some application which is loading directories (XnView for example) in my computer OR I want open some file in any application
OR, especially, I want to save some new document by "Save as" button (in Notepad, MS Word for example), application hangs for about 30 seconds and I can not work with it. Other applications are working fine during this freeze.
The problem occurs when I am at home and the network storage in office is not available (or I am in the office and home NAS is not available of course), but Windows
doesn't show unavailable drive as disconnected.
When I connect my computer to the office VPN (and both network storages are available) OR I unmap unavailable network drive, everything works perfectly... but it is really not comfortable.
I have tried stop Indexing and disable Windows Defender as I read on some forums but without any solution.
Any hints how to solve this issue?

This isn't one I've seen personally, and I can really test whether this would work, however...
On each of your network drives, try selecting something (doesn't matter what, but probably something small is better), right clicking on the folder and selecting "Always available offline" so your machine maintains a local copy of that information.
My logic being, by doing that on both network drives, each of them contains some information which is available regardless of the resource itself being visible. In this situation Windows will continue to show those network drives as available and accessible,
even if you're no longer connected to either network. Since those folders are available the network drives will also be available, and if you're no connected to the resource itself, Windows will still see that drive as connected, will still be able to list
it, and the apps you're seeing this issue with should no longer have any problems (provided they're not trying to access information on one of those drives that isn't available obviously!).

Networked Drives and Symbolic Links in Mavericks

So I have tried this a few times on my own... and I ended up deleteing all my contect with sudo in terminal..... I have everything restored now... but before I proceed, i thought I would get some help from those that know alot more...
Here is the scenario.. I have a MBP Late 2013 with mavericks installed.. I have a Networked drive at smb://192.168.1.1/ that is mounted and and accessable through finder no problem, and I have it set to reconnect at login so its always there.... there is no permissions for the networked drive its accessable to everyone... I want to take my itunes music and put it on the networked drive at smb://192.168.1.1/Music and have itunes access it from there like it was on the local drive.... so I started reading up on symbolic links
I have had no luck with ln -s in terminal, i keep getting told the directory doesnt exist... this is the exact line i have been triying [ln -s smb://192.168.1.1/Music ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music] i thought it may have been a permission issue hence my ussage of sudo... but because of my ignorance I just ended up deleting everything..... what am i missing or doing wrong... someone please help!
Anthony

Just for some clarification...
A simple saying that someone told me ages ago... "root is God"
When you use the sudo command you are doing the command as root. The "rm" command means remove, the "-r" means that you want the command to be done recursively so it will do the same command in any nested folders, and the "f' means to force the command.. even if it has any errors or is a file that root knows that you shouldnt do a command on..
So basically you told god to remove everything in your music folder, no matter how deep its nested, even if doing so would be immoral and against gods better judgement.

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