Waited to install H.S as I was afraid of bugs (although I rushed to get every other OS update), mainly because of APFS not being fully compatible with all type of drives. Finally installed .2 as I figured this
would be safe.
Well 3 days down the road, drive icons change, dreaded error -50 shows up upon copying files, finder
goes berserk, opening Drive utilities takes forever, external veracrypt drives are missing files or empty.
Scary.
Back to 10.2.6 and everything is as it should be. Granted, this was not a clean install but this is the
worst update I had to deal with. I get the progress and major changes that Apple wants to introduce
here but they're serving us an omelette that's not even cooked to put it mildly.
ilandmac
Waiting for version 4
UPDATE
Well I screwed up blaming H.S. ;-(
The next day I got the same panic finder results on Sierra with error -50 although way not as far reaching.
Dug into this -50 error on the web and the better answers were on this forum (a while ago) indicating that this was caused by not selecting drives to power down in the preferences panel. Ok. These were my settings all along. But I did add an Areca 8050 over the weekend and I fudged the spin down parameters on that raid drive. There definitely is a fine line on how you set your spin down parameters on external drives vs OS X.
Back on H.S and so far everything is sweet. Yes I know, have to hit my head on the wall for introducing another parameter in an install......
Just wanted to come clean
ilandmac
would be safe.
Well 3 days down the road, drive icons change, dreaded error -50 shows up upon copying files, finder
goes berserk, opening Drive utilities takes forever, external veracrypt drives are missing files or empty.
Scary.
Back to 10.2.6 and everything is as it should be. Granted, this was not a clean install but this is the
worst update I had to deal with. I get the progress and major changes that Apple wants to introduce
here but they're serving us an omelette that's not even cooked to put it mildly.
ilandmac
Waiting for version 4
UPDATE
Well I screwed up blaming H.S. ;-(
The next day I got the same panic finder results on Sierra with error -50 although way not as far reaching.
Dug into this -50 error on the web and the better answers were on this forum (a while ago) indicating that this was caused by not selecting drives to power down in the preferences panel. Ok. These were my settings all along. But I did add an Areca 8050 over the weekend and I fudged the spin down parameters on that raid drive. There definitely is a fine line on how you set your spin down parameters on external drives vs OS X.
Back on H.S and so far everything is sweet. Yes I know, have to hit my head on the wall for introducing another parameter in an install......
Just wanted to come clean
ilandmac
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