Hi Alan,

Thanks for the tip! That worked perfectly, can't believe it was that
easy!

Cheers,
Dan

On Sep 2, 12:28 pm, Alan shouls <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I never had any joy with fuse_purge_np which I imagined might just get things
> to "just work" in the way you mention. I also noted that fuse_purge_np is
> also a method that is not recommended.
>
> What I did in the end was to go back to the LoopBack
> example. If you run the LoopBack and add or remove a file or folder within 
> the folder
> on which the loop-back mount exposes (not the device that appears) then you 
> are
> doing the equivalent of adding a file or folder outside of the file system. I
> set up the LoopBack
> so that it had the same flags for the mount as my filesystem and checked
> out what happened – I should note that I used the auto_cache option. If I 
> added
> or removed a file or folder behind MacFUSE´s back the finder correctly 
> updated. The
> difference I found between my file system and the  LoopBack
> was that when I added or removed a file or folder the date of the enclosing
> (parent) folder changed – this appears to be normal UNIX behaviour. As long as
> my file system did not replicate this behaviour the auto_cache option
> only sort of half-worked.
>
> I hope that this helps
>
> Best Regards
>
> Alan Shouls
>
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