Volume becoming partially then fully hidden somehow

Checking the visibility turned out nothing...

usage: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/GetFileInfo [-P] [-a[<attrib-letter>] | -t | -c | -d | -m] <path>

Although, vis USB on another computer, the drive pops right up. Could this be a Thunderbolt issue?

What a pain!!!

Also, When remoting into the machine, the drive appears in the list, but DOES NOT MOUNT on the desktop when selected - All other drives do (as they should)

This happens to us all the time, seems to be caused by heavy load and or large file usage on the server. We use SetFile -a v /Volumes/DriveName and it fixes it for a couple of days. I'm really hoping for a fix soon

I'm also having this issue with a 1-year-old (old style) Mac Pro, 10.9.4 OS X Server, about 50 users. It's happening about every two weeks.

The folder/drive icon will gray out and nothing will be displayed in the Finder, though users connecting through File Sharing can sometimes see the files, sometimes with duplicate server drive icons on their desktops. The status bar at the bottom of a Finder window will show 500± GB available on the 1 GB drive when all the files are still hidden.

At first the chflags command wasn't working for me, but then I realized that I had to put the full path into the string. I have a couple folders on the "Data" drive that are set up as different share points, so I had to do something like this:

chflags nohidden /Volumes/Data/folder/

My work email is adrew at uta dot edu if anyone from Apple reads this and would like to send me a fix!

Thanks.

That did finally do the trick for me... Thanks

The only rub was if your drive name has spaces in it, add the backslashes...

chflags nohidden /Volumes/Drive\ Name\ Here/

I did contact them.

Mentioned your case. After looking at my server, the technician concluded that my issue is different...

He asked me to change a few permissions settings on one of the volumes, but he didn't seem too sure it would make a difference.

Sure enough the problem represented itself yesterday….

This is very frustrating, it's a server running on a client site that I can't constantly monitor.

The command chflags no hidden fixes the issue, but this should not happen.

Thx

Federico

Same problem for me and it does cause real problems for us. The drive disconnects from client and leaves a drive icon called "client node" on the desktop, but you can't open it or eject it. Setting the drive back to "visible" on the server via Applescript fixes the shared drive and rebooting the client machine gets rid of the "client node" share on the desktop. Running 10.9.4 on server (brand new Mac Pro) will all the updates. The drive is an external LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 (the brand new PCIe SSD drive). I have 2 of these exact same drives attached and shared in full and the other drive does NOT exhibit this behaviour. Really strange. Happens once every 2 months.

Yeah, this is getting to be enormously frustrating! IMHO, more proof that Apple doesn't care one bit about people like us. They just want to sell iPhones, iPads and iWatches to every living thing on the planet and that's it.

I've had an open bug ticket with Apple for several months now. I have had to poke and prod them for progress. The latest bit from them was infuriating! They asked me to try and replicate this issue using a Yosemite beta.

Umm, HECK NO! Apple's own beta documentation urges people explicitly NOT to use beta software in a production environment.

I don't exactly have an entire spare server setup with 50+ clients that I can use for the fun of experimenting and troubleshooting their own bugs!

Ugh....

call Apple. I think the more we call the more they will take this seriously.

Thx!

federico

Called Apple again, because while the chflags nohidden command works to fix the issue, the issue still happens.

They passed me to an upper tier technician who admitted they know about the issue.

They already made a fix, but the bad news is that the fix most likely, won't be released as a Maverick update. It will be a Yosemite fix. Which means we will have to install a brand new OS on a server and pray...

I'm really disappointed with Apple. They're releasing OS too quickly and they move to the next one without even finishing to patch the current one!!!

Thx

Federico

Another Monday, another hidden drive. It would be great if a software update could address this issue because changing the OS is pretty time consuming for me.

I submitted this to Apple's bug reporter today, as I have an open bug report on this same issue and have been told by Apple that they are closing the bug report because I will not test it out on Yosemite. They asked me to and I said basically "***?!? You want me to upend my entire server infrastructure to play around with your beta software? Heck no!"

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I realize you have chosen to close this because I refuse to test using beta software. However, please again take a look at this discussion forum:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5794019?answerId=26603930022#26603930022&ac_cid=tw123456#26603930

It is obvious that enough people at Apple are aware of this bug and that a fix is known.

Please please please roll it out soon and separately from OS X Yosemite.

Consider these "knowns":

1. This bug is particular to OS X Server

2. Servers are typically run in mission-critical environments

3. Because of No. 2, Server customers typically do not upgrade immediately when new software is released

4. Also because of No. 2., a problem with your Server software has much wider-ranging implications than just one client machine

5. Apple is aware of this bug at multiple levels of Engineering, and yet will not patch it.

I know phones and watches are fun toys. I get that. But please give this bug the attention it needs and fix it now, in Mavericks.

Thank you.

A new version of server, 3.2.1 is out. let's see if this fixes the issues...

Federico

I updated to 10.9.5, installed the security update and the new version of Server and had a folder disappear again on me today. Gah. I was so hopeful.