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LOL, I won't argue at all
If you choose to believe that just because something is expensive it is inherently better than something that is less expensive, that is your choice

This guy reminds me of someone who once tried to boast that he worked with 'infecting virii' when dealing with a friend who thought he had an issue with his Windows 7 PC (which turned out to be Windows doing it's usual annoying bad housekeeping thing and nothing to do with any sort of malware). :rolleyes:
 
Wow, this makes me wonder. Did Apple and APFS destroy my only 2 year old Seagate drive with mostly disk images on it?

I kept wondering, how could my newest standard HD used the least of all fail quicker then the much older ones? The complete failure boggles my mind. Seagate blamed harsh usage, but it was not the system drive, only contained media and music and disk images for specific purposes.
Or maybe it's just in the nature of Seagate HDDs.
 
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there are some exceptions of course but i was speaking in general... usually its wiser to go with the expensive one...

And I would say it is generally wiser to go with a product that offers the greatest value
Buying an item solely because it is more expensive isn't the wise choice, it is the foolish choice
 
Just to clarify - is this ONLY with APFS sparse images, or is it also an issue with High Sierra interacting with classic HFS+ sparse images? 'Cause I use a ton of those on a daily basis. (They're great for added security, and they really make endless OS migrations so much quicker and easier.)
 
I feel your pain. Had a major memory leak after moving to Sierra, let alone High Sierra. Progressively unresponsive about 10 minutes after reboot. Wasn’t the notorious iTunes leak either. Couldn’t trace it. Went back to El Cap and am quite happy. My only complaint is that Photos can’t pick a new key frame from a live photo. I’ll live.
Because my Mac Pro is early 2008 (16GB RAM), it cannot be updated beyond 10.11.6, so I don't have to worry about these problems.

However … for whatever reason, two problems have surfaced: 1. using Safari with several sites / windows open at the same time reduces the available storage space on my SSD, and 2. Safari does not quit easily, requiring force quit at times. Safari is up to date.
 
Just to clarify - is this ONLY with APFS sparse images, or is it also an issue with High Sierra interacting with classic HFS+ sparse images? 'Cause I use a ton of those on a daily basis. (They're great for added security, and they really make endless OS migrations so much quicker and easier.)

Based on the information shared so far, yes that is the case
 
I wonder if this is related to high sierra suddenly invalidating my time machine backups to my NAS, and demanding to do a new full. (Loosing two years worth of history). Then doing it again 2 weeks later.

Same. Since High Sierra network backups to NAS never worked well. Recreation of the backup sparse image didn't help. Works for some days and fails.

Worse, I had to stop TM backups to a USB drive as well. When High Sierra creates a local snapshot on the system drive as a part of routine TM operation, write operations on the main APFS volume start failing. Furthermore, I was able to "thin" snapshots only after disk repair from safe mode. Disabled TM altogether after this problem surfaced for the third time.
 
As Tim would say, the data loss happens magically.

At least APFS is "opt-in" where its compatible. :rolleyes:
 
I wonder if this is related to high sierra suddenly invalidating my time machine backups to my NAS, and demanding to do a new full. (Loosing two years worth of history). Then doing it again 2 weeks later.

I suspect that it may have had an impact. I had the exact same problem last week on two of my Macs. I'm using a Synology NAS and have my TM backups going to sparse bundle images on the NAS. Additionally, I do a separate weekly backup to a different NAS volume using (Mike Bombich's) Carbon Copy Cloner which attaches to sparse images, and one of the sparse bundles failed (was corrupted), so I lost my complete backup set for one of the Macs.

If you aren't using a sparse bundle image mounted on the NAS, it probably didn't affect you. If you are, I suspect that you've been bitten by this bug in the same way that I have.
 
Apple should STOP releasing a new macOS (and iOS) version each year and concentrate on reliability and performance.
Ah, so car manufacturers should cease launching new cars for a year so to check if the wheels don't come off. That is, with their customers (to guarantee the best simulation of reality)
 
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I wonder if this is related to high sierra suddenly invalidating my time machine backups to my NAS, and demanding to do a new full. (Loosing two years worth of history). Then doing it again 2 weeks later.

No. Think about what you just typed. NAS = it’s own file system.
 
High Sierra has been a complete disaster for me. My computer locks up for 5-10 seconds every few hours. Probably some memory leaks or something. Either way this is really pathetic, even windows works better than this.

If you just upgraded from a previous version of macOS then that's your problem. With a new major release you should CLEAN INSTALL! CLEAN INSTALL! CLEAN INSTALL! I've noticed those who simply upgrade are the ones that experience the majority of the problems.

I've always perform a clean install each year on my iMac & MBP and never had any of the documented problems everyone else seems to get. The one machine I have that was upgraded runs like a dog.
 
I guess I'll go ahead and grab the latest beta then..
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If you just upgraded from a previous version of macOS then that's your problem. .

Mostly disagree as long as you know your way around the OS.
 
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How about Dave Nanian’s SuperDuper? He took the more conservative approach (vs Bombich’s CCC) throughout this entire development ‘race’ to field an APFS bootable backup system without putting client data in jeopardy.
 
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