Files missing when copied to server

[cas85641]

Hello,
I have an XServe G5 running 10.3.9 server. My client machines are G5’s running 10.4.11 and MacPros also running 10.4.11. Additionally I have one MacPro running 10.5.8. When one of the clients running 10.4.11 copies a group of files from the server, works on them and then returns them to the server, they copy over nicely and are all accounted for. However, when the MacPro running 10.5.8 copies a group of files from the server, works on them and then copies them back not all of the files show up (I hope that made sense). This has been happening for a couple of months now and I was just informed of it today. I watched as 10 files were “copied” from the local desktop back to the server and only 7 of the files made it back to the server although the client machine indicated that all 10 files had been copied. This appears to only an issue with the 10.5.8 MacPro and the 10.3.9 G5 Server and copying groups of files back to the server. One or two files at a time is not an issue and neither is copying multiple files from a client running 10.4.11 back to the server.
Has any one else heard of or experienced this?

Thanks,
cas

[cas85641]

Yes to both of the questions. I was also able to reproduce the issue on a MBPro (also running 10.5). Limiting the speed on the 10.5 MacPro and seems to have done the trick so far. I spoke with a genius at the local Apple Store the other day and he said that he remembered hearing something about files missing when copied to a 10.3 server but that he thought it was a 10.6 client issue. Someone else mentioned that it may be the way that 10.3 stores metadata over AFP.

cas

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