iMac 2011. Worked great until High Sierra. Now WiFi won't automatically connect after sleep (but I can live with that). More severe:
External USB hard drives start behaving strangely after a while ->
I will not be able to copy files to the drive (error -50)
I CAN copy from the drive
Can't eject drive (except with Force Eject)
Disk Utility lets me eject the partition/drive sometimes
After I Force Eject and insert another external drive (I use a dock), the drive will mount but partitions will show up as documents in the Finder and have the same name as the previously ejected drive. Trying to open it I get message "the original item can't be found". Again, Disk Utility shows the correct partition name and lets me eject.
Using Terminal I checked what process is using the affected disk, 'mds' came up but nothing else. 'mds' works for Spotlight (I have Spotlight prefs set to NOT index external drives).
So far the only way I found to get access to my external drives is to reboot.
Finally, when I start the computer in safe mode (with SHIFT key) external drives work normally.
Can this be a consequence of AFPS? None of my drives are updated to use AFPS because I sometimes need to exchange data with older Macs using a second dock. This iMac has a 2TB regular HD - so no AFPS there.
At the moment I am running tests on my 2012 Mac Book Pro which also has High Sierra to see if it has the same problem.
First time I wish I hadn't upgraded.
[doublepost=1515121960][/doublepost]Ok. So just did the same test on 2012 Mac Book Pro running latest version of High Sierra. Same problem!
I converted one of my external drives to AFPS and will check if that makes a difference.
External USB hard drives start behaving strangely after a while ->
I will not be able to copy files to the drive (error -50)
I CAN copy from the drive
Can't eject drive (except with Force Eject)
Disk Utility lets me eject the partition/drive sometimes
After I Force Eject and insert another external drive (I use a dock), the drive will mount but partitions will show up as documents in the Finder and have the same name as the previously ejected drive. Trying to open it I get message "the original item can't be found". Again, Disk Utility shows the correct partition name and lets me eject.
Using Terminal I checked what process is using the affected disk, 'mds' came up but nothing else. 'mds' works for Spotlight (I have Spotlight prefs set to NOT index external drives).
So far the only way I found to get access to my external drives is to reboot.
Finally, when I start the computer in safe mode (with SHIFT key) external drives work normally.
Can this be a consequence of AFPS? None of my drives are updated to use AFPS because I sometimes need to exchange data with older Macs using a second dock. This iMac has a 2TB regular HD - so no AFPS there.
At the moment I am running tests on my 2012 Mac Book Pro which also has High Sierra to see if it has the same problem.
First time I wish I hadn't upgraded.
[doublepost=1515121960][/doublepost]Ok. So just did the same test on 2012 Mac Book Pro running latest version of High Sierra. Same problem!
I converted one of my external drives to AFPS and will check if that makes a difference.
