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lwilliams

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Nov 27, 2012
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After the upgrade to 10.13.2, I get a permanent beachball after using CMD-K and selecting any network drive. I must hold down the power button and restart to get back to a working desktop.

I only do this to transfer large file across my network. I have had no problems in the past. And the same thing happens even if on a different network.

Can anyone help?
 
After the upgrade to 10.13.2, I get a permanent beachball after using CMD-K and selecting any network drive. I must hold down the power button and restart to get back to a working desktop.

It's the Finder that beachballs? Is nothing else functional since you have to hold the power button? You can't open other apps or shutdown normally? Or cmd+option+escape to force quit Finder?
 
Things on the menu and dock still work. Nothing on the desktop will launch. The beachball is constant on the desktop. If I force quite Finder, it will not relaunch from dock or anywhere.
 
Things on the menu and dock still work. Nothing on the desktop will launch. The beachball is constant on the desktop. If I force quite Finder, it will not relaunch from dock or anywhere.


Can you open Terminal and run "sudo killall Finder && sudo killall Dock"? Does that fix it (as in restore the desktop to a usable state, but probably without allowing you to connect to the network drive still)
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Can you open Terminal and run "sudo killall Finder && sudo killall Dock"? Does that fix it (as in restore the desktop to a usable state, but probably without allowing you to connect to the network drive still)


Does the issue persist if you try and access the network drive from another user account? Could be local to the user account and not system wide
 
I have not tried the first option you give. There is only one user account on this Mac. I could create another and try it.
 
Same thing happens with a different user account.

I can access the network shares with any problems from a windows computer......so that eliminates the router and file server. The problem is obviously on the MacBook.

Any more ideas?
 
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