Hi,

Been having this problem since i got my macbook....

I access my windows PC from my Mac wirelessly using a wifi router....

there are always a few folders that the mac couldn't open....the rest of the folders are fine

when i double click on that folder, it has nothing inside but in actual fact, there are a lot of stuff inside....

a Get info from the folder shows this

does the sharing for the folder in PC are open?

what do u mean??

Have you tried to disable and re-enable file sharing on that folder/drive in Windows? It is possible that the file sharing permissions are not being set correctly...

right click the specific folder in windows, select "sharing & security".

ooohhh...okok.....didnt knwo what u meant just now....

yeah...sharing is enabled......other windows xp laptops can view the files inside....just my macbook cannot....

It is important to enable "network users to change my files". You may want to right-click and go to preferences and ensure that the underlying filesystem is read-write as well.

Windows sharing has two sets of permissions involved with sharing. The NTFS filesystem permissions and the share permissions. The problem may be the share permissions. The default for the share permissions is read-only.

all my share permissions is "all" i.e. read and write....

but i still cant access it.....

there are only 2 or 3 folders i am having this problem.....the rest of the folders are ok....

just my wild guess, do you have any file that's in chinese or very long filename in thise folders?

yeah....

in fact all of them are chinese.....and long file names.....all chinese series downloaded from BT...

but i have other folders that has all their files in chinese and long file names as well...but they are fine....

i have another wild guess.....does the 32GB limit thing affect this as well?? coz the folder is more than 32GB

That could be the reason. Try spiltting the folder into two. If cannot create a new folder and transfer everything there and rename it. Keep us posted what happened.

From my experience, OS X has trouble reading folders with a large number of files on a NTFS volume. Try splitting the contents of the folder in two as Timber suggested...

i assume u are talking about the folder size and not the file names???

i'll try later and keep u guys posted...hehe

Yes, try to resize it by splitting the contents into two folder. If that doesn't work, create a new folder, copy the content from the previous folder to the new one. Rename the new folder to another (and maybe shorter) name. Example: your previous folder name is "My Great Pics" your new folder name it to "Pics". See what happens.

I do have problems with NTFS format. Mac can read it but not write it. I formatted all my external HD to FAT32 with size less than 30GB so that I can transfer my video files back and forth the pc and Mac.

yes.....i am aware that Mac can only read but not write drives more than 32 GB from windows.....

but the thing is, i cant even read from that folder......so i *think* it's not the problem....nevertheless, i'll try later...coz i dont have access to my windows pc now.....

The number of files in the folder

i once have problem transferring so mp3 from windows to linux and i found out it is because of the chinese characters... what i do is i RAR it and split it to a few files (the total size is about 9GB) and transfer it then unRAR it and it works fine... even the characters are displaying properly... i think os X (being *nix based) should be the same here...

haven meet any problems with files sharing so far.though most of the time my friends pc can't see my ibook while i can access and copy their files...

Easiest possible way, access your computer via FTP. OSX has a built in FTP server. So login from your windows machine and drag n drop till your heart's content.

This post has been edited by ezralimm: Nov 29 2006, 11:26 PM

yeah...that;s what i am doing now.....
i am using the Remote Desktop Client from Microsoft.......simple enough for me.....heheh

link is here
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts...tedesktopclient