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prismamedia
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March 2, 2018
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Ghost folders in /Volumes

  • March 2, 2018
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Hi everybody,

I had a big problem since a long time.
We mount multiple SMB Volumes on computers.

The problem is that it creates ghost folders in /Volumes with the same name :
/Volumes/Share
/Volumes/Share-1
/Volumes/Share-2
/Volumes/AnotherShare
/Volumes/AnotherShare-1
/Volumes/AnotherShare-3
...

When we reboot computers, ghost volumes are back but the good volumes is not always the same.
It can be /Volumes/Share but at next reboot it will be /Volumes/Share-2, ...

We try to clear /Volumes ( umount -Af -t nfs,smbfs // rm -Rf /Volumes/* ) and reboot with no success.

We have more and more issues with applications like Adobe InDesign, like broken/missing links because these programs works with /Volumes/.

Do you have this kinf of issue too ?

Is there someway to fix this?

MacOS 10.11.6, 10.12.6.

Adobe InDesign CC2014 / CC2017
SMB shares are on Windows Server 2008 or 2012

Please, I need help.

Thanks.

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Correct answer Test Screen Name

The problem is expected; control the mount order or use company rules to keep share names unique.

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Legend
March 2, 2018

The problem is expected; control the mount order or use company rules to keep share names unique.

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prismamediaAuthor
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March 12, 2018

Thanks for answer.

It's not easy because we have more than 100 servers (with a lot of alias) & 200 share names.

Some users can mount 10 or 12 volumes in a same time...

I will try with some scripts because it's a really annoying problem for us with some applications like inDesign.

Thanks....

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