Help! OK: the situation.
I have an 8500 bearing Sonnet with Jaguar 10.2 installed (I am downloading the upgrader to 10.2.1 now) and an unsupported, Acard-rommed ATA33 card that has volumes attatched but of course not recognized. Aside from that the system is up and running like a dream- it's like using a new mac almost! I haven't felt this way since I upgraded to a IIcx from a Classic... But anyway: I get the wise idea to throw the ATA card and my main ata drive, a 30 gig Western Digital that is mostly my 14 gig of mp3s into an extra 7500 packing XLR8 and 9.1 and network them together. Initial indications are great- I can connect to the drive, read and write files from it, etc. Things are looking up untill I set iTunes 3 (on my main mac with Jaguar on it) to start adding all the mp3's to the playlist. First I notice that only 8 gig of them are added-almost at random. I try resetting the permissions from the Finder on the whole drive- to be read and write to absolutely everyone period in case there is some kind of permissions error. Trying again I get no different response. I go back and start adding them folder by folder, and most initial indications look good. I have most of them in the main mp3's folder, but some rogues are in the iTunes Library folder, and I notice that some of the subfolders there claim that they are empty when I know that this is not the case- I have been in 9.1 by boot today, listening to the mp3s, so I know that they are there. But I figure that since it is only 2 or 3 of the folders' worth I can do without. I add what I can (about 90% of them in this set) and start adding the ones from the main mp3 folder. I start noticing a striking and amazingly disturbing bug/feature: Although a vast magority of the folder-by-folder additions work some do not... I open the first offending folder, noticing that the icons are all the grey outlines of round-cornered squares, and that (does anyone remember the first releases of System 7?) upon clicking on them they DISAPPEAR. As in totally gone. Shocked to the core of my being I close the window and check the size of the folder with 'Get Info' and find that it is not any smaller at all- opening the folder again reveals the file has returned! I try adding them file by file but they of course dissapear upon clicking on them. I move the offending folder out of the original folder and onto the root level of the drive in question (all of this is over the network, to clarify) and all of a sudden the files, sizes and all, reappear. I move them back and they are able to be added with no problems. This continues for a bit, and I am able to repeat this tactic once more. The third time I try to do this, however, it fails. I move the folder to the root level of the drive, I open and close it 28 times, I even try copying it to a different disc (Local, not networked at all) and I am returned a "Sorry, this operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred (Error code -50)." I get an error code -22 when I try to copy them (not move the folder, coy it) to a different folder on the same disk. The dialogue box says that it is "Copying 14 items to "Wsr" so I know on some level the OS knows that they are there. But what is preventing me from seeing all of them? And how do I get them back? They are actually physically there, this is known to me, as I can boot in Classic and see them and even play them in iTunes 2, but why not in Jaguar and iTunes 3? And this problem is not even confined to just mp3s- Most if not all of the classic-only apps and documents on the server side drive have the same grey square icon and refuse to respond to clicks or anything in any way excepting dissapearance. What can I do here? Will the Software Updates currently installing fix this problem? Or have I smacked into the final brick wall with this computer that will make me sell my car or something to get the money up to get a new mac? I would love to think that I have found a solution as I have almost this exact same setup running at work, the only exception being that it is a 933 G4 running Jaguar and a 400 G4 running 9.1, and this symptomality and problem is absolutely not manifest. What can I do? Do I have any options? All apologies for the long post, I just wanted to make sure that I clearly described the issue and was as detailed as possible. Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this, and double so to those who can help! 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