New QNAP NAS

[Wammer]

(15-01-2013 12:59)simoncn Wrote:  

(15-01-2013 12:10)Wammer Wrote:  Simon

MinimServer is up and running on my new QNAP, but on checking the log I found a number of error messages saying

"Error: incorrect FLAC header 0x00051607 at offset 0 in file......"

and one message saying

"Error: unexpected end of file at offset 333319 in file......"

What do these this mean, and how do I fix them?

Wammer.

It would help to know what the ....... was.

My guess is that these filenames all start with ':2e' and are 4096 bytes long. If so, these files are created by Mac OS X to hold some Apple metadata and are copied to the QNAP when you copy files from the Mac to the QNAP using the AFP protocol. The files aren't visible to programs that are accessing the QNAP as a remote share, but they are visible to programs running directly on the QNAP. They aren't audio files, but MinimServer thinks they are audio files because they end with extensions like .flac etc.

You need to delete these files from the QNAP and stop them coming back again. You can find more information and some suggestions for how to fix this in this thread.

I haven't come across this problem myself, but a few users have been affected by it. If you're able to work out how the files were copied across originally, and how to stop this happening again, I'd appreciate knowing this so that I can add something to the MinimServer user guide.

Thanks Simon - I recall coming across this problem before. I did a search for ":2e" and deleted the offending files, and MinimServer no longer reports errors - but I'm afraid I don't have any helpful info on why Apple machines do this.

The problem will have occurred because I copied the files across from the drive attached to my Mac. From now on I will make changes to the QNAP files and sync the changes in the other direction across to the Mac drive, but i guess I may have to do some housekeeping from time to time.