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The Finder frequently loses sync over Samba networks; the "updates in less than a second" doesn't work perfectly (or even really all that well in a lot of cases

The Finder frequently loses sync over Samba networks; the "updates in less than a second" doesn't work perfectly (or even really all that well in a lot of cases). The only fix for such a situation is to restart the Finder. I don't see how Command-R wouldn't be a better solution. Incidentally, I'm far from the only technician dealing with mixed environments on a daily basis that's had this complaint.

Groxx 17y ago
Samba networks do that for me on Windows too, despite the ability to refresh the window. More often, it'll crash Explorer rather than actually update the info if something is already clogging the tubes. Plus, network shares almost never update that quickly, and expecting them to do so is rather ridiculous. Round-trip time to a server clearly wasn't implied as part of the Finder update speed. And again, I'll point out that the terminal is right there. If it's Finder that's slow, the terminal will still work. If the terminal doesn't keep up-to-date, then it's a problem with their implementation of Samba, not Finder, and a refresh button would do nothing (except maybe nail your network with unnecessary requests by most people mashing it when something doesn't work).
- thaumaturgy 17y ago
  Well, I guess we can continue to dicker about the relative merits of a "Refresh" command in the MacOS X Finder, except: 1) It's not just Samba networks, it's other things too, up to and including 10.5 [1]. 2) People have gone to the trouble to write Applescripts to do the job for them. [2] 3) "Just use Terminal" does not justify a broken auto-update system, which... 4) ...is all fine and dandy when it works, but really needs some kind of sensible fall-back system when it doesn't, which... 5) ...brings us to the original point, which was that continuing to integrate software of this quality into automobiles, without manual override systems, is just plain stupid. So, would you like to continue to beat this dead horse? [1]: http://robsheldon.com/brokenopsys http://robsheldon.com/brokenopsys -- in which the problem frustrates me enough to actually complain about it. [2]: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/16/refresh-the-finder/ http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/16/refresh-the-finder/

Groxx 17y ago

Samba networks do that for me on Windows too, despite the ability to refresh the window. More often, it'll crash Explorer rather than actually update the info if something is already clogging the tubes. Plus, network shares almost never update that quickly, and expecting them to do so is rather ridiculous. Round-trip time to a server clearly wasn't implied as part of the Finder update speed. And again, I'll point out that the terminal is right there. If it's Finder that's slow, the terminal will still work. If the terminal doesn't keep up-to-date, then it's a problem with their implementation of Samba, not Finder, and a refresh button would do nothing (except maybe nail your network with unnecessary requests by most people mashing it when something doesn't work).

thaumaturgy 17y ago
Well, I guess we can continue to dicker about the relative merits of a "Refresh" command in the MacOS X Finder, except: 1) It's not just Samba networks, it's other things too, up to and including 10.5 [1]. 2) People have gone to the trouble to write Applescripts to do the job for them. [2] 3) "Just use Terminal" does not justify a broken auto-update system, which... 4) ...is all fine and dandy when it works, but really needs some kind of sensible fall-back system when it doesn't, which... 5) ...brings us to the original point, which was that continuing to integrate software of this quality into automobiles, without manual override systems, is just plain stupid. So, would you like to continue to beat this dead horse? [1]: http://robsheldon.com/brokenopsys http://robsheldon.com/brokenopsys -- in which the problem frustrates me enough to actually complain about it. [2]: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/16/refresh-the-finder/ http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/16/refresh-the-finder/