macOS 10.13 High Sierra - Bugs and bug fixes

[PicnicTutorials]

Has the "verifying" big been fixed?

This affects me as well. The only fix I’ve found is a Automator script that removes the spam whatever attatched to the internet downloaded file. However opening the file is the same amount of time for me just no verifying alert.

 

[adonis3k]

2013 Mac Pro (TRASH CAN)

Installed high Sierra. Performance is great but my list of issues are below.

- Frequent system freezing (especially when using Safari) Requires a hard restart
- Airplay causes system to freeze

I use an external WD My book Pro (thunderbolt) drive as a scratch disk for Photoshop. I notice that when the drive powers down to sleep mode it causes a system crash (or perhaps its something else causing the crash and the drive powers down)

Is anyone else experiencing these random system freezes especially when using Safari?

I am getting random freezes, check my post on Mac Pro forum I put a video up! Also use WD as TM backup

 

[JesperA]

Has the "verifying" big been fixed?

Yeah, that was annoying but it seems like they have fixed it in 10.13.1 Beta 2, atleast i have not encountered it yet and i have tested with about 50 files/videos so far, most of them would have had to be "verified" in the previous betas and 10.13

 

[PicnicTutorials]

Yeah, that was annoying but it seems like they have fixed it in 10.13.1 Beta 2, atleast i have not encountered it yet and i have tested with about 50 files/videos so far, most of them would have had to be "verified" in the previous betas and 10.13

Pretty sure it only does verifying alert on external drive files - large mp4 files to notice. My beta 2 still does it

 

[JesperA]

Pretty sure it only does verifying alert on external drive files - large files to notice. My beta 2 still does it

All my files are on external disks and on a NAS and it has not verified once since i installed beta 2

 

[PicnicTutorials]

All my files are on external disks and on a NAS and it has not verified once since i installed beta 2

only does it with mp4’s for me

 

[ApolloBoy]

The media transport buttons not always working and the Finder window weirdness I had are now gone, but now I'm having a bizarre issue where every few days my Mac suddenly shows a gray scrambled screen and then logs me off. On one occasion it did this while I was playing a game, and when I logged back in I could hear the game still going but the icon for it disappeared from the dock. Very strange and I have no clue what causes it.

The update also hasn't resolved the issue with external drives not always showing up on the "Devices" list in the sidebar. Seems to mainly do this with flash drives for some reason, my external SSD that I use for backups always shows up in the sidebar.

 

[The Friar]

I don't know if this is mentioned before, but since upgrading to High Sierra some Youtube videos go black when i want to view them in fullscreen modus.
Taskbar and Dock appear when hovering over them.
Cursor remains visible.
I can't seem to put the finger on who's causing this problem or how to fix it.
Most of the posted solutions on Google don't work in High Sierra.

 

[jeh72]

I don't know if this is mentioned before, but since upgrading to High Sierra some Youtube videos go black when i want to view them in fullscreen modus.
Taskbar and Dock appear when hovering over them.
Cursor remains visible.
I can't seem to put the finger on who's causing this problem or how to fix it.
Most of the posted solutions on Google don't work in High Sierra.

I've run into this too. I had to kill Safari and restart it in order to get it to work again. I don't know of a permanent solution either.

 

[xgman]

It keeps changing the order of 'my devices' in the left pane of Finder, all the time!
Unbelievable....
I want firstly the 'Macintosh HD' and then my 'Data'(dmg).
No. I put it in order.
Then after a while, some action in finder, it changes the order rather alphabetically.
What they have done?
Anyone else observed this?

yes.

 

[ipos]

wallpaper change by itself after every restart

 

[wiffle]

Anyone still having Exchange server issues with Mail on 10.13? Two of my exchange accounts work while two others don't. Could it be a server-side issue? 10.12 was working fine.

 

[Dr.SL]

Epson Stylus Photo PX730WD

After upgrade to High Sierra impossible to print on the mentioned printer.
Uninstalled the printer and made a new installation, no change - no print.

 

[Sharkoneau]

Haven't read through the entirety of the thread, so apologies ahead of time.

I've seen a new bug after installing the supplemental update: when waking the laptop from sleep, immediately attempting to type your password in suddenly unlocks the laptop. It's happened three times now. This seems like a huge security issue, where something is bypassing initial authentication.

 

[Dr.SL]

Haven't read through the entirety of the thread, so apologies ahead of time.

I've seen a new bug after installing the supplemental update: when waking the laptop from sleep, quickly attempting to type your password in suddenly unlocks the laptop. It's happened three times now. This seems like a huge security issue, where something is bypassing initial authentication.

Seems that the whole HighSierra is sh*ty...
Have a look here: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x21.html

 

[thebmoman]

Seems that the whole HighSierra is sh*ty...
Have a look here: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x21.html

i'm getting random freezing. cursor still moves but system is completely unresponsive. Cant do anything and requires hard reboot.

2012 macbook pro 2.6i7 8gb 512ssd.

anything that can be done?

 

[radicool]

With 10.13, I always get "WindowServer [ERROR] - Unknown CGXDisplayDevice: 0x41dc9d00" in console. The computer did crash several times. Found the same problem in official forum and got no answer.

My computer is 13' MBP with touchbar 2017. So I guess it's a bug.

If you're running Bartender 3, quit it and see if that helps. I sorted the problem for me, and several other users on various forums. Hopefully they patch the app sometime soon!

 

[CrzyP]

So I use the Calls From iPhone feature in FaceTime. In High Sierra, I am unable to move the app around my screen during a phone call. Not that it's a big deal, but the audio meter on it does not work either.

Is there a way to report incompatible websites with Safari? Since updating to High Sierria, I haven't been able to load certain websites.

Also, Siri suggestions have some weird thing going on. What is accountsd and callhistory.sync-helper?

 

[ApolloBoy]

The bugs have become so annoying now that I've had to put aside my Mac, this has been like the buggiest macOS release so far in my experience.

 

[poontapper]

Hi guys,

I have an extremely annoying problem at the moment and it started the day I installed High Sierra. I installed on launch day and have kept it up to date.

Basically, at least three time a day my computer will reboot itself closing all my applications and restart. When it comes back to life there is a "sleep wake failure" error message. Is anyone else exerienceing this issue? Is there a fix?

It has to be a High Sierra issue as it was never a problem before hand.

I'm running a iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012).

 

[Naaaaak]

Has anyone else had apps lose their preferences? Some apps like NetNewsWire (still using version 3) lose toolbar settings and want me to re-register. I've already wiped preferences with defaults in the command line and re-set everything the way I want, then suddenly one launch: everything lost.

TextWrangler also lost documents it had been dutifully restoring since 10.12 that I never bothered to save.

 

[ori71]

On Mac Os High Sierra began to stick to scrolling in Safari and Chrome, all so?
P.S. Sorry for my english

 

[JesperA]

Still have the same issue with Mail since El Capitan (or earlier), when i hide it (cmd+h), after some time it unhide itself for whatever reason.

Anyone else with this issue and solution?

 

[tomdelom]

ColorSync crashes immediately when checking or repairing profiles.

 

[dkoerber]

Hi. I'm having the exact same problem as you with office files since updating. Have you found a solution yet? I've even gone so far as to reinstall the OS and it hasn't fixed it.
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I have two major issues with Finder since "upgrading" from 10.12.6 to 10.13.

The first one is that thumbnail previews for Microsoft Office files are missing at random (some files have, while others don't have a thumbnail preview; newly created files after the update lack a thumbnail as well). At the same time, in the "File Info" window the preview for Office files is basically an extremely blurry image, making it unusable. The furthermore applies also to iWork files. Curiously, the QuickLook functionality works properly and you can still preview all of these types of files, however, it's kind of hard to navigate around folders and find your files when a major part of your thumbnails have suddenly disappeared. I have tried various troubleshooting methods such as reinstalling MS Office, clearing Finder's preferences and clearing QuickLook's preferences, but to no avail.

The second issue I have is with the "Recents" and is so annoying that I almost want to smash my MacBook with a hammer and get a Windows computer instead. A just modified file does not always automatically and immediately appear at the top of "Recents". It could take minutes or even hours for the newly modified file to appear on top as it should. Meanwhile, when going to the respective folder, you can see that the file has been modified and if sorting is set by "Date Modified" it will be displayed on top. Relaunching Finder doesn't help at all. This has never been an issue with "All my files" in Sierra and earlier editions of the OS. You would think that macOS would be mature enough that its most fundamental application would work fine, but I guess High Sierra is going to be another round of disappointments.

Have you figured out a solution for the Microsoft office files yet? Having the same problem.