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Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume?

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On 2015-02-21, rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> wrote:
> To copy some files from one Mac to another, I enabled filesharing on the 
> source afp server (OS X 10.8.5) and mounted the volume on the client (OS 
> X Server 10.7.5). When I was done, I unmounted the volume on the client 
> Mac[1], and disabled filesharing on the server.
>
> Since then, the cliet Mac keeps on insisting on mounting that remote 
> volume. It continually brings up a modal[2] dialog[3] that it can't find 
> the server. After OK-ing that, it just reappears exactly 30 seconds 
> later. Also, just opening a Finder window takes easily 5 minutes or more 
> for it to even appear, and at least another 5 for it to list the 
> contents of my home directory. (All the while continuously having to 
> click away the dialogs about it not being able to find the server.)
>
> I've tried multiple reboots of both machines, inclusidng Safe Boots 
> (Shift key). I've tried looking with sudo lsof | grep [server/volume], 
> which doesn't seem to list anything relevant. I've tried adding the 
> remote volume to the client's Login Items (and then reboot, confirming 
> it worked), and then removing it again, but even then, after yet another 
> reboot, the problem persists.
>
> How do I stop this insanity?

[snip]

Hmm... That's peculiar. Login Items would have been my first guess. Is
it possible that you have enabled the "Reopen windows when logging back
in" setting in the window that appears when you log out of this user
account? If so, I wonder if Finder is trying to display a window showing
contents from this remote volume when you log in. You might try logging
out and disabling that feature temporarily to see if it makes a
difference. 

If not, then if you know the name of the server & volume to which the
computer is trying to connect, you could try searching through
/Library/Preferences and your own ~/Library/Preferences files for one or
both of those strings to see which preference files mention them. I'd
probably do that search with grep on the command line.

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JR

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AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-21 19:04 +0100
  Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-21 20:12 +0000
  Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-21 21:41 +0100
    Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-21 20:43 +0000
      Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-22 02:51 +0100
        Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-22 15:39 +0000
          Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-22 21:13 +0100
  Re: AFP hell - How to stop Mac from insisting on connecting to non-existing remote volume? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-02-21 15:55 -0500

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