:2e* and .AppleDouble files when using AFP

[dfeist]

Netatalk 2.1 has now been released (26th April), when can we expect a firmware update with this in?

Also if anyone has updated netatalk themselves please post and let others know how you did it...

thanks!
Dan

[Arcadeez]

This problem still exists...
Thanks to other users, I can't and don't want to go through all the complex steps.
Can Qnap offically release fix or tell us a simple step?

Thank you.

[oxyi]

I am stilling having issue with the resource folk... any update >?

[occamsrazor]

Anyone able to tell if Netatalk has been updated in the new 3.3.0 betas? I don't see any mention of it....

[QNAPJames]

Not yet available in this version. But you should be able to see it in the official release.

[occamsrazor]

I see the latest v3.3.0 Build0607 Beta lists "- Upgraded Netatalk to 2.1 (AFP 3.2)"

Is anyone able to confirm that this has fixed the problem?
Also, my NAS is a backup (mirror) of a harddrive directly connected to my Mac computer. Should I erase the NAS then re-backup if I want to clean up everything?

[martinjk]

I've just installed 3.3.0 Build 0607T. It is still not working.

[QNAPJames]

Hi martinjk,

Would you mind if we connect to your NAS and check it directly. Please PM me if it's okay for you. We can use the remote desktop application like teamviewer (www.teamviewer.com).

Or if any of you would like to help us checking this issue, you are welcome to PM me. Thank you.

James

[martinjk]

We can do in the week of the 21th. In the meantime here is my test setup:

Mounting the QNAP from Apple using afp (media) and samba (media-1):

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mount | grep media
afp_0asse82ni20m2PDup62HKqC6-9.2e00000b on /Volumes/media (afpfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by martin)
//martin@homer/media on /Volumes/media-1 (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by martin)


Now creating the dot files both on afp and smb mount:

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touch /Volumes/media/MyTemp/test/.afpfile
touch /Volumes/media-1/MyTemp/test/.smbfile


File listing afp:

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ls -la /Volumes/media/MyTemp/test/
total 0
drwxrwxrwx@  3 martin  staff  264 11 Jun 22:35 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 22 martin  staff  704  8 Jun 20:37 ..
-rwxrwxrwx@  1 martin  staff    0 11 Jun 22:34 .afpfile

File listing smb:

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ls -la /Volumes/media/MyTemp/test/
total 0
drwxrwxrwx@  3 martin  staff  264 11 Jun 22:35 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 22 martin  staff  704  8 Jun 20:37 ..
-rwxrwxrwx@  1 martin  staff    0 11 Jun 22:34 .afpfile


File listing on qnap ssh console:

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ls -la /share/media/MyTemp/test/
drwxr-xr-x    3 martin   everyone     4096 Jun 11 22:35 ./
drwxrwx---   21 martin   everyone     4096 Jun  8 20:37 ../
drwxr-xr-x    2 martin   everyone     4096 Jun 11 22:35 .AppleDouble/
-rw-r--r--    1 martin   everyone        0 Jun 11 22:34 .smbfile
-rw-r--r--    1 martin   everyone        0 Jun 11 22:34 :2eafpfile

The difference with the latest firmware is that smb mount doesn't show the :2e files and afp not shows the ".dot" files.
Behaviour from my point of view should be that files created with a leading "." should be created excatly that way without hex encoding on the nas file system. There should also be an option on the afp service to prevent the creation of .AppleDouble files.

[nirali]

hi..
i m testing for Netatalk on unix machine. My netatalk version is 2.0.5 . I m testing it with afpfs-ng client . i m not able to browse the folders of the volume mounted. i can create directories and files in the volume mounted. But y cant i browse them?? Any idea?

[catastrofe]

I am experiencing this issue with a brand new TS419P (10/5/2010). I have 11,700 music files stored on a Drobo. I copied them to the TS and ended up with over 18,000 due to the creation of these 2e files. My music player sees these files in addition to the actual tracks, but I don't see them in Finder or anywhere else.

I'm on firmware version 3.3.3 Build 0928T. Mac OS X 10.5.8.

Is there a simple, non-technical fix for this?

[BloodDragon]

I would also like to see a fix for this, I keep ending up with these :2e files and sometimes these seem to be the cause for not being able to delete some folders in finder. If I remove the files using an ssh connection, I am able to remove the folders again.

I am working on a Mac running Snow Leopard, connecting over AFP.

[TryWait]

Silence

[nnsqnap]

I've run into these folders in my QNAP's shared media folder:
.@_thumb
.AppleDB
.AppleDesktop
.AppleDouble
.TemporaryItems
.Trashes
:2eTemporaryItems

Would really love to delete all this extra garbage.

[ton123]

I've run into these folders in my QNAP's shared media folder:
.@_thumb
.AppleDB
.AppleDesktop
.AppleDouble
.TemporaryItems
.Trashes
:2eTemporaryItems

Would really love to delete all this extra garbage.

So would I.