madburg Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 One example, is say I have windows explorer open viewing a directory say TV Shows on the cache drive where sickbeard ends up placing a show when is finished processing it. Whatever directories are already in there, I see. sickbeard has say 5 shows to process, I will see the first show's directory created (by sickbeard) and the remaining 4 will not show up (visually). But they are there. My work around has been to create a txt file and once I open the txt file and type anything into it and save/close out, the directory (in this case TV Shows) auto refresh's and I see all 5 directory's. Another example via windows explorer, I am browsing "tv shows" an unRAID data share, mover finished move data over to it. I done see this new data. Once again if I create a dummy file and write to it, everything refreshes. I have been having this issue for quite a few RC releases now. I can say its an unRAID issue or not or the SAMBA component but its getting very tiring having this behavior... :'( Its seems like at first auto refresh works but then it dies off. Maybe some sort of unRAID memory management thing, or SAMBA, just don't know. Anyone else see this type of behavior? Quote Link to comment
dalben Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 I'm seen this behavior but its been intermittent with me and I've been unable to replicate it at will. Not much help sorry. Quote Link to comment
madburg Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 Thanks dalben. Some info for Tom, or anyone who knows what to look for. cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 6227800 kB MemFree: 1904420 kB Buffers: 201484 kB Cached: 3840796 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 467516 kB Inactive: 3417724 kB Active(anon): 27188 kB Inactive(anon): 164 kB Active(file): 440328 kB Inactive(file): 3417560 kB Unevictable: 184132 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 5377992 kB HighFree: 1627736 kB LowTotal: 849808 kB LowFree: 276684 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 27092 kB Mapped: 128192 kB Shmem: 260 kB Slab: 105640 kB SReclaimable: 89296 kB SUnreclaim: 16344 kB KernelStack: 984 kB PageTables: 1516 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 3113900 kB Committed_AS: 128740 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 19052 kB VmallocChunk: 101908 kB DirectMap4k: 6136 kB DirectMap2M: 907264 kB Quote Link to comment
JimmyJoe Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Another example via windows explorer, I am browsing "tv shows" an unRAID data share, mover finished move data over to it. I done see this new data. Once again if I create a dummy file and write to it, everything refreshes. This happens to me too. It just happened again and I was rebooting the Windows PC to fix it, but tried writing a dummy text file and that did the trick. Much better than rebooting but would like to see this fixed. Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Try hitting the 'F5' key which forces refresh of the Windows Explorer window. If this 'fixes' the issue, you have run into a problem in Win7's Windows Explorer. A lot of people (including myself) have run in to this issue. I have it on one (and only one) local drive (out of three) on my computer. MS has yet to fix the problem... Quote Link to comment
JimmyJoe Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Try hitting the 'F5' key which forces refresh of the Windows Explorer window. If this 'fixes' the issue, you have run into a problem in Win7's Windows Explorer. A lot of people (including myself) have run in to this issue. I have it on one (and only one) local drive (out of three) on my computer. MS has yet to fix the problem... F5 refresh does not fix the issue for me. A reboot does. I also found a workaround on another post... on the impacted Windows client, if you create a file (like with notepad) and save to the folder having an issue, this forces the refresh and no need to reboot. Quote Link to comment
dalben Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Try hitting the 'F5' key which forces refresh of the Windows Explorer window. If this 'fixes' the issue, you have run into a problem in Win7's Windows Explorer. A lot of people (including myself) have run in to this issue. I have it on one (and only one) local drive (out of three) on my computer. MS has yet to fix the problem... f5 doesn't help. I've nearly worn out that key over time trying to sort it out. I haven't tried the txt file trick. I normally just do something else until the file appears. Quote Link to comment
TheDragon Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I am experiencing exactly the same behaviour in on Windows 7 with RC12a, though I'm not sure when this problem was initially identified. Hitting F5 will not show a current list of a shares contents, however as described above - creating a text file in the share or rebooting seems to force the share to update. Quote Link to comment
overbyrn Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Same thing here too. Had it happen a few times recently whilst working on plugins. No decernable pattern that I've noticed. Win 7 client PC's, rc12a Unraid. Can't say I've seen it on my main Unraid. That's still running rc11. Quote Link to comment
jbartlett Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I had the issue as well under Win7 Ultimate 64bit but F5 worked for me. I haven't noticed the issue yet under Win8. Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I think this issue is due to a time mismatch between the unRaid server and whichever client you are connecting with. I too have been seeing this issue from time-to-time and have looked at various things whenever it occurred, never seeing anything wrong. Then I noticed that the win7 PC connecting to the server was about 7 seconds behind the server, and the server was synchronized correctly with pool.ntp.org. The win7 PC was using time.windows.com and also had an error message saying it couldn't synchronize the time. I changed the time server on the win7 PC to also use pool.ntp.org, refreshed the network explorer window, and all files showed up correctly. Quote Link to comment
TheDragon Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Thanks for that Tom! Will give it a go Quote Link to comment
madburg Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 All my clients and the unRAID server point to one of my Domain Controllers (PDCe) for NTP (Which happens to be pointing to 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org/1.north-america.pool.ntp.org/2.north-america.pool.ntp.org/3.north-america.pool.ntp.org). And the issue still occurs. If the unRAID servers time gets skewed its something to due with its NTP component/or poll interval as this behaviour does not exist with any of my Win->Mac, Win->Win, Mac->Mac communication. Only Win->unRaid. I don't browse via Mac to unRAID (manually), Plex runs on the mac's and does its thing to play media, so I can speak for AFP->unRAID refresh issue, if one exists. Quote Link to comment
madburg Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 I had the issue as well under Win7 Ultimate 64bit but F5 worked for me. I haven't noticed the issue yet under Win8. I have seen it with Win8 as well. Quote Link to comment
TheDragon Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Apologies forgot to post back - in my scenario Tom's suggestion resolved the problem. Thanks Tom! Quote Link to comment
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