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Lion OS 10.7: Problem connecting to server

Hi,


Ever since I upgraded to Lion yesterday morning, I keep getting these random pop up windows that say:


"There was a problem connecting to the server. URLs with the type "file:" are not supported."


This seems to happen repeatedly and for no reason on the three different wi-fi locations I've been on in the last couple of days. I doesn't seem to effect my actual connection though. Just really annoying.


Any ideas?

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 4:57 PM

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Jul 22, 2011 5:57 AM in response to Hatdaddy

How many of us have dropbox installed?


Dropbox and iDisk are the only servers I'm accessing on my Lion machine. I did a quick google search for "dropbox and lion" and came up with this dropbox support page:


http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=41644


So it seems others might be having some problems with dropbox (though, that page says nothing about this specific error), but I am aprehensive to install the beta they are testing on that forum as it seems it might cause a few other unwelcomed issues.

Jul 22, 2011 8:37 AM in response to Hatdaddy

I have a hunch it might have to do with NFS or maybe SMB mounts. I know I've used those but I've never used Dropbox. It feels to me like Finder is trying to restore a remote filesystem mount that I was using under SL but that is no longer supported or somehow changed with Lion. It isn't happening to everybody but only to a small handful. What are we doing differently? NFS is my best guess becuase it might be the most obscure but it's just a guess.

Jul 22, 2011 8:41 AM in response to bobvan13

Looks like my hunch was wrong. Further searching found a solution posted over here:


http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1168794&page=2


Looks like the culprit was Time Machine, not NFS. I haven't plugged in my external Time Machine disk since the Lion upgrade. If the problem doesn't automatically go away when I do that, then I'll try the suggestions at the link above.

Jul 22, 2011 8:51 AM in response to bobvan13

You might be right about Time Machine... I haven't done a backup since I installed lion last night.


Also, if that isn't it, I remember reading an article on TUAW about a few changes regarding NAS stuff in Lion:


http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/21/a-few-nasty-gotchas-in-lion/


maybe something wonky is going on with TM, Dropbox, iDisk or any other file sharing services.


I wonder why TM would act up in this way, as my backup drive is just a Firewire 800 drive, not a Time Capsule or NAS drive. hmm...


Anyways... Please post your results after the backup. Thanks!

Jul 22, 2011 10:23 AM in response to gerryvee

Hmmmm....


Okay, completed back up, and ejected my external hd. I clicked on tm in the dock again and the message popped up. This happened three times consecutively.


I turned my external hd back on, and clicked on tm in the dock and received no pop up message, and tm started doing a back up. I did this three times consecutively with no popup.


I again ejected my external hd, clicked on tm in the dock and I got the popup again.



I will wait to see if the popup happens randomly again like last night and early this morning. It's definitely a tm issue, at least imo.

Lion OS 10.7: Problem connecting to server

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