PC clients/Not enough disk space

[Peter_Haase]

I am getting PC clients that will not back up as the reported disk size is something like 960GB and another 48GB needed for backup which is totally false. Anyone know what the fix is for this?

[Mayoff]

Finder.dat files under Windows: When scanning a Windows client, Retrospect 5.0.236 and 5.0.238 may incorrectly report an amount of data to back up that far exceeds the total capacity of the volume scanned. This problem occurs when Retrospect encounters one or more "finder.dat" files on the Windows client volume. Finder.dat files are created when dual-fork Macintosh files are copied to a Windows volume through utilities such as Mac OS's File Exchange or Retrospect's Duplicate functionality. They are used to track the multiple parts of the Mac file while it's on the Windows volume. Dantz is working on a solution to this problem. In the meantime, deleting the finder.dat files from the Windows client volume will alleviate the problem, though the files they represent cannot later be returned to a Mac OS computer with their Mac-specific properties intact.

 

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Additional information on finder.dat files can be found in the following Dantz Knowledgebase article:

 

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This issue is fixed in our next Macintosh release coming soon.

 

 

[cedarcreek]

So this means that I have to pay for an upgrade for features I do not need when all I want is a fix for this "not enough disk space" problem? It doesn't seem really right... I don't need the added features, I just want a stable product that will back up the PC client on my network (which it did prior to OS X anyway). This seems like it should be a "fix" revision rather than bundled with a new version.

[AmyJ]

When scanning a Windows client, Retrospect 5.0.236 and 5.0.238 may incorrectly report an amount of data to back up that far exceeds the total capacity of the volume scanned. This problem occurs when Retrospect encounters one or more "finder.dat" files on the Windows client volume. Finder.dat files are created when dual-fork Macintosh files are copied to a Windows volume through utilities such as Mac OS's File Exchange or Retrospect's Duplicate functionality. They are used to track the multiple parts of the Mac file while it's on the Windows volume. Deleting the finder.dat files from the Windows client volume will alleviate the problem, though the files they represent cannot later be returned to a Mac OS computer with their Mac-specific properties intact.