Hi there,

I face an issue with file handling between my Unraid server and the Macs in the office. For SMB settings in Unraid, multichannel and WSD is on, enhanced Mac OS compatibility is turned on as well. The rest is off. I also do not have any SMB extras configured.

I have the CA Mover Tuning plugin installed and also the Recycle Bin plugin. Potentially the issue is related to one of these?

The problem: When deleting a file in Finder on MacOS, the file is removed, but reappears immediately. When deleting again, it remains gone. When renaming a file, the file gets renamed, but the file with the old name appears next to it. When saving a file out of an App (e. g. Photoshop) and replacing the existing, it creates a copy as well. In Finder, dragging and dropping a file from one folder to another (which should do a move) is only copying the file.

I feel like all this is kind of the same nature of underlying issue. Not deleting properly in the first place. Thus my guess if it might be related to the Recycle Bin plugin.

I did not test with this plugin turned off yet as I need to find a slot when the Unraid server is not used and no harm is caused to the already deleted files in the Bin.

I was just thinking I ask before in case somebody had the same issue and knows that it's not related to the Recycle Bin plugin. I could skip the test then.

Many thanks in advance!

I am happy to provide any further details/logs/files if required.

Thanks

This can happen if you ever get the same filename duplicated in multiple locations/drives (which is not meant to happen). When this happens Unraid will only show the first one. However an action such as delete or rename on that first copy would then reveal the second copy giving the symptoms you describe. The commonest cause of this is when manual copying between drives on the server has been done. Whether this could apply to you I am not sure.

Hi itimpi,

Many thanks for the hint! I do use the Mover Tuning plugin to mirror the content of the cache to the disks, even though keeping it inside the cache. Looks like this is a bad idea from what you are saying. However, the option is present in the plugin, so I was not expecting anything bad to happen when using it.

Do you think this could be it? I could probably do some tests with files that are mirrored and files that are not and see if I can replicate.

Thank you!

17 minutes ago, TuU-Sven said:

Hi itimpi,

Many thanks for the hint! I do use the Mover Tuning plugin to mirror the content of the cache to the disks, even though keeping it inside the cache. Looks like this is a bad idea from what you are saying. However, the option is present in the plugin, so I was not expecting anything bad to happen when using it.

Do you think this could be it? I could probably do some tests with files that are mirrored and files that are not and see if I can replicate.

Thank you!

No idea. Did not realise that the Mover Tuning plugin allowed for files to be duplicated. The Unraid User share support has a built-ion assumption that any particular file only exists in one place at a time. The duplication would not matter if the files in question are read-only as then you would never see the symptoms you describe.

Should be easy enough to test by artificially creating files of the same name but with different content in two different drives and then go through the actions you describe. As long as the files have different contents for your testing you should be able to work out exactly which one you are seeing at any point.

Great idea with the different content! Thanks

Will go ahead and work on the mover tuning as well as the testing. Will post the result here once all done.

Thanks a bunch.