Library Will Not Connect to Images on Remote Drive Since Lion

Ernie,

you are slightly moving out of the initial topic.

This topic in only concerning the fact that referenced pictures stored on a NFS mount point are not managed correctly by Aperture and are disconnected on each Aperture's restart. That's all for this topic.

Again I can't see how such a professional product could not handle such a case. That's disapointing.

Laurent.

I used to have this problem with Lion and Aperture, my masters are stored on a QNAP NAS server.

Since the upgrade to Aperture 3.2.2 and Lion 10.7.2 the problem has gone away. not sure which one fixed it, I suspect the Aperture 3.2.2.

Cheers

Treb

It was actually Lion 10.7.2. I used to have the same problem.

It's very weird that for some people this still happens... I wonder if it's specific to certain hardware.

Cheers

C.

I think this may be a NFS specific issue?

I have a QNAP TS439 Pro NAS with ext3 fs

I tried AFP and SAMBA before choosing NFS as NFS was the only way of sharing my files reliably with machines that sleep and wake up regularly etc.

My NAS is QNAP TS219P with ext3 fs.

Cheers Treb

But are you using NFS on the MAC to connect to the NAS?

SAMBA, I haven't enabled NFS.

Thank you for the fast responses. I'm happy that I'm not the only guy rating this as bug. I also created a bug report for the NFS issue (I guess I'm not the first). Hopefully Apple get's aware of the issue and fixes it somewhen in 1212 :-)

I also think it is NFS specific. I just did a test using an AFP share on the same NAS. Aperture found them automatically after restarting. So I can at least confirm, it is no problem with AFP. But I did not try CIFS/Samba...

The trouble is just that I did not find a way making AFP work properly with fast user switching and a shared aperture library on a local partition ignoring user rights. AFP drives are mounted for a specific user. So the same path to a master image is invalid for another user on the same machine. Or does anybody know on how to configure AFP for the following scenario?:

- Masters on the NAS

- Two users using the same AP library on the same machine

Sorry if I post this question in the wrong thread. I just post it here, because I can solve that scenario using NFS. But the issue of this thread breaks currently the solution.

btw. my hardware is a brandnew Synologie DS212 with the newest firmware (DM 3.2-1955).

Another way to workaround the NFS issue would be an AppleScript for reconnecting a single master, as this causes the NFS drive to be recognized online again. However, I could not find a matching function in the AppleScript API Reference for reconnecting a master... If somebody knows a way to automate this, it would be really helpful for me, as I stay on NFS.

Regards

Marco