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Stopping the directory deletes project shares silently, and lost access shows as Offline #631
Description
Stopping the team directory deletes every project share without saying which, and the people who lose access see the owner's Mac as "Offline".
Where
Settings → Team → Stop serving… on the Mac that serves the directory; the teammate's sidebar and project picker.
What was seen
- The confirmation says only "Stop serving the directory? Teammates stop seeing channels on offline Macs, and its shares are deleted." It doesn't name the shares. b-sandbox went from "iamnbutler shared with them" to "iamnbutler no access".
- Recreating the directory at the same URL didn't bring the share back ("iamnbutler no access"); the lead had to share it again.
- On the teammate's Mac, while the owner was still online, b-sandbox read "samechocolixir · Offline" / "Offline: nate16-1 is unreachable", then disappeared. Lost access looked like the host being offline. Leaving the directory has the same effect: a teammate's shared folder project vanishes from the picker with no message.
Expected: the confirmation names the shares it deletes; teammates who lose access see that the project is no longer shared with them, not that the Mac is offline.
Map: ^113, ^104, ^103. Related: #606, #607.
Found in the 2026-10-22 two-Mac pair study on Canary 0.0.53.88.
Activity
iamnbutler commentedon Oct 22, 2026
Two-Mac re-check on Canary 0.0.54.93 (includes #642): the confirmation now names the shares (Sam opened it and cancelled): "Stop serving the directory? Teammates stop seeing channels on offline Macs, and these shares are deleted, ending the access they give: b-sandbox with iamnbutler@gmail.com." Not re-checked: lost access still showing as Offline (^104), since the directory wasn't actually stopped.
iamnbutler commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Two-Mac re-check V3 on Canary 0.0.54.96 (beb17a0, includes #682):
b-sandbox · nate16-1 · samechocolixirsection and b-chan left the sidebar with no Offline mark, and stayed gone after a reload. Sam's other sections and People stayed normal. Separately, with Sam's helper stopped, every section read· Offlineand came back without a reload, so Offline now means the host.No accessheld.Map: ^389, ^104, ^103, ^354.