Apple Snow Leopard and FileVault (part deux)
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 19:15 A while back, I wrote a couple of blog posts about the FileVault quirks in OSX. The problems seemed to be gone with the upgrade to Snow Leopard, but this week I ran into a (new??) 'feature'?
When I remove a directory on a (SMB) file-share it removes the files and directory (or so it seems). But after a couple of seconds the (empty) directory re-appears. Trying to delete the directory is impossible, and results in the following error:
The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -8072)
When I try to remove the directory through Microsoft Remote desktop on the server itself I get:
Cannot delete file: cannot read from the source file or disk.
When I disconnect my MacBook from the server, by 'ejecting' the volume, the directory automagically disappears. This behaviour only occurs when I use Snow Leopard with FileVault enabled to delete stuff on the SMB share. Hence, OSX FileFault still sucks.
Willem
It seems that OSX 10.6.3 solves this issue.... finally
Reader Comments (2)
I have just started having this problem on my Infrant ReadyNAS NV. When I go to delete some folders the message continually comes up. I have tried deleting from other machines. I have not tried windows because I don't have windows except Tiny XP on parallells. I will try that.
I have tried changing permissions... logging in as administrator, but I still get the problem message. I am running OSX 10.6.3. Interesting.
Have you tried to unmount and remount the volume? That did the trick for me (or rebooting the device that held the share).