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Avoid a long system lockup related to sleeping shares
Authored by: markuswarren on May 22, '07 01:44:14PM

Ah the joys of AFP :D

I've experienced this lovely delay, though I think it's been a lot less than 12 mins, maybe 3 - 5 at the most. Regardless of the length of time, it's very annoying to say the least. I find it happens when I've share open on my Server (OS X 10.4.9) and I sleep the server and then go to eject the share that is on my deskop. Wham! beachball time.

I'll try the sidebar trick next time I'm in this situation.

As to why it happens, perhaps the Finder is waiting for the operation to complete, whilst it does not do so when you eject from the sidebar. Nothing like a bit of consistency is there :D

It might be something to do with AFP3's reconnect facility, in that it's trying to reconnect to the server, though I don't think that is correct, as my understanding is that reconnect is meant to work along the lines of the share is alive, you sleep *your* machine and then wake it and the share will be reconnected.



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