I’m encountering an issue with our current sync setup involving Linux server, macOS and Windows clients.
We have remote users working on a Linux-based Asustor NAS, which uses Syncthing to sync content to my Linux server. Users access the NAS via SMB from their Windows and macOS machines.
The problem is that some files, regardless of whether they originated from Windows or macOS, are becoming hidden. On macOS, they appear hidden even without a leading dot.
When I check the file properties on Windows, both the “hidden” and “archive” flags are set.
My suspicion is that Syncthing might be creating temporary files with a leading dot during synchronization, which causes Windows to mark them as hidden. Then, once the sync is complete and the file is renamed to its original name, the “hidden” flag in Windows persists. I’m not entirely sure if this is the mechanism, but it’s what I’ve observed.
Does anyone have any insights or suggestions on how to resolve this?
Yes, this is my first time using this setup with Premiere Pro. The issue appears mainly to the project files created or opened by the users, but some other media files are hidden as well. I haven’t encountered this kind of problem when using Avid Media Composer with Mimiq.
Yes, indeed. I’ve made this change yesterday, but i’ve also manually removed the flag of hidden files. Checking today, all these files opened and newly created became hidden again. The fact that simply opening the file in Adobe Premiere can cause it to be hidden seems like a unusual behavior for me. Local users in Studio work without these issues, but here they’re all on macOS.
And this happens even though you have hide dot files = false? If so, them something else is needed as well. Sorry but I can’t help more with this. Someone else here who knows more about this?
