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Corrupt folders on file server shared with Mac OS X users, space as trailing character in folder name.

Asked by cucrit in Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), Windows 2003 Server, Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)

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Hello All,

Recently we have encountered an issue with Mac OS X 10.4 users creating file folders on our Windows Server file system.  They will name the folder and for some reason type a space character at the end before hitting return.  The server never rejects the name.  This causes the folder to become corrupt (but still usable by them for some reason) however other users running OS X 10.5 and Windows cannot see the folder any longer.

As admin I see the folder on the server, but I cannot delete it, or rename it or anything.  When clicking preferences this corrupt folder only have two tabbed options available, General and Customize.  Security and Sharing are no longer there.  When trying to rename, move or delete I get the same message:  Cannot delete file: cannot read from source file or disk.

I have seen other requests about folders being corrupted in this way and there was never a solution.  Unfortunately I NEED a solution because there are potentially dozens of folders like this on the drive.  We have already advised users NOT to do this space at the end of a name thing.

We always have a consistent user access so I cannot error check the disk, and I don't think that would fix it anyway.  We have tried command line deleting it both from windows and Mac and nothing works.  The user who originally created the folder seemingly no longer has access to delete the folder.  And I have run out of ideas.  

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Zones: Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), Windows 2003 Server, Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
Tags: Microsoft, Windows Server 2003, File Server System
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