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macOS Ventura 13.2 - Bug Fixes, Changes, and more

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13.2 did not fix my problem with network settings failing to show settings.
iMac 27" desktop. System Setting->Network->Ethernet (also WiFi) are both connected and show a blank pane when either chosen. Thus I cannot change any settings in the GUI. I can view settings using CLI Networksetup command. This problem existed in 13.1, I do not know when it stopped working, Monterey, Big Sur? I don't recall the last time I checked those settings. I have seen a few other posts online with this issue, although not very many.

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Also, if I chose Settings->WiFi-Details nothing happens when clicking the Details button.

I have found no help from Apple. Well, I should say no success with over an hour of telephone help. Final suggestion was to reformat my SDD and do system restore. Not sure, but I believe that takes me back to Day 1, Yosemite? I sent detailed log & diagnostic to feedback assistant. Even tho I don't need to access my network settings at the moment, some day I will and I'm very disappointed about this.
 
I updated to 13.2 as well and my external blu ray player isn't recognized anymore, however all my external USB HDDs are still recognized. But the loss of my blu ray player is a huge issue for me because I use it frequently to rip CDs or watching blu-rays. The BR player works when plugged, but the Mac just not recognize the disc or the player itself anymore.

2020 intel iMac here. So frustrated. This is the last time I update my machines day 1. I have a lot of problems with Apple update lately since iOS/ipadOS 16 and now Ventura.
 
BrianKilpat said:
Booted up again into recovery mode and checked the Startup drive security settings. They were set to allow booting from non Apple devices. Returned this setting to full security and rebooted.

All external devices show and function, including my Time Machine.
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Larry_Lion said:
That worked! I can see my drives now in normal mode
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Wow! That worked for me as well!

@BrianKilpat : How did you discover that option, just curious? :)

I needed to search a little until I found what you described, so here it is in a bit more detail for those who do not see their USB drives after updating to Ventura 13.2 on a Apple Silicon Mac:

  1. Boot you Apple Silicon Mac into Recovery Mode by holding the Power Button until you see a dark screen with an icon of your startup drive and an "Options" icon / wheel.
  2. Click on the "Options" icon / wheel -> a "continue" button appears beneath it
  3. Click on "Continue"
  4. You'll see a screen labeled "macOS Recovery". Select a user you know the password for and click "Next"
  5. Enter the respective password
  6. Now you are in the "Recovery" app. Do not click on any of the icons on the screen, but rather go to the menu bar and select "Utilities" -> "Startup Security Utility" from the menu
  7. Select your startup drive
  8. In case your drive is encrypted: Click on the "unlock" button (you will then need to enter a user password to unlock the drive)
  9. Click on the "Security Policy" button
  10. Click on the "Full Security" radio button and click "OK"
  11. Restart your Mac
 
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I would frequent this website during the  transition from PowerPC to Intel for information on Snow Leopard.
and never seen many pages of problems with every snow leopard upgrade launch.

then Mavericks came out and wham!
many pages of aggravations!
perhaps more people used and switched to MacBooks in 2013
(since their iPhone ruled)
so more comments and complaints.

and the reason for this post is:
Monterey and Ventura has ben an upgrade blessing for my MacBooks!
even the old, useless, heavy and decrepit MacBook Pro '12 upgraded without a problem.

so
Thanks !
 
SoYoung said:
This method works for intel macs as well?
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I think your situation is different as it applies only to a single, specific device.
What I and several others saw on our Apple Silicon Macs was that no USB drives (HDDs/SSDs/Optical Drives) showed up after the 13.2 update. This seemed to be limited to Apple Silicon Macs.

So, in short, I do not think that method applies in your case
 
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  • (⚠️Major Issue) USB Drives, SD Cards, and Discs may not be able to be read by the system
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This is a really weird one, I updated both my 2018 intel Mini and 2016 intel MBP to 13.2, and only my Mini suffer from this, and only with my CFexpress card reader and USB-C SSD. My USB-C Raid enclosure still works and also the Apple SD card reader.

Booting in recovery mode, and everything is now discovered just like before, this only happens under a normal boot.

Also, everything works just fine under my MBP with 13.2, go figures.
 
matpete said:
I think your situation is different as it applies only to a single, specific device.
What I and several others saw on our Apple Silicon Macs was that no USB drives (HDDs/SSDs/Optical Drives) showed up after the 13.2 update. This seemed to be limited to Apple Silicon Macs.

So, in short, I do not think that method applies in your case
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I have two intel Macs, and one of them is affected by the USB bug with 13.2
 
I saw this thread on the apple support forums about my blu ray external player issue https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254587648

Looks like its not a minor issue. The irritating part of this is the public beta period is supposed to avoid major problems like that on the official public release and no one talked about that, even "so called" tech expert YouTubers where every update are great according to them. Not only this update was clearly not ready to be released to the general public, but its also ambarassing that a big company like Apple approved this.

The funny part is Apple won't even care to release a 13.2.1 update and we'll have to wait until end of march for 13,3 to have (maybe) a fix.. I'm beginning to be very disappointing by Apple lately for their lack of quality in terms of updates.
 
asebg said:
I'm also using a micro-b to usb-c cable for the same reason, and the drive powers on and spins up in Ventura 13.2, just no acknowledgement of the media in the drive. I did test a 2nd micro-b to usb-c cable, as well as a micro-b to usb-a with usb-a to c adapter yesterday just to be sure it wasn't the cable.

I have a Bootcamp partition installed and when I boot the MBP into Windows, the drive operates as expected.
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Very strange, because this sounds exactly like what I described above when I plugged-in the wrong dual plug and the drive didn't get enough power.

The only thing I can think of is maybe try disconnecting your hub? Maybe something in Ventura 13.2 is making it draw more power? I'm totally guessing here... just suggesting something else you could try to get it working. Sorry I can't be of more help.
 
hello to all forum members

I have an iMac 27 inch 5k 2020 (Intel) and I upgraded to Mac OS Ventura 13.2, but after upgrading the other Macs on my network can't access the external hard drive (USB) on my iMac and I can access and manipulate from Finder. Do you have any suggestion or solution?

I am attaching here a video to illustrate the problem, where I am trying to access the hard drive from another Mac.

Thanks.



 
Anyone with an M1 Air can you chime in on battery life and to a degree performance?

still on 13.0 on mine
 
After installing macOS Ventura 13.2 none of three optical external optical drives are recognised by my 2017 iMac. Two of them are Pioneer BDR-S09XLT drives in OWC Mercury Pro cases (attached directly to the Mac via USB) and one is a Pioneer BDR-XU03 (directly attached via USB as well). I tested them again by booting from a different SSD on the same iMac with macOS 13.1 installed and they worked flawlessly. Under macOS 13.2, however, the Mercury Pro cases as well as the Pioneer USB drive are shown in the USB section of the macOS System Profiler application but not under the section "Disc Burning" so they cannot be used. No USB or Thunderbolt hubs involved. For what it may be worth: the internal SSD is never used in any of my configurations as the systems boots from a SSD in an external Thunderbolt 3 case.
 
Following the procedure @matpete documented I was able to resolve my missing drive issue. As I use a couple 3rd party system extensions I then reenabled my previous security policy and the drives persisted after reboot.

After reverting the policy and rebooting I did notice that "Privacy & Security" had a new entry:

System software from developer "JMicron Technology Corp" has been updated.

There is an "Allow" button next to that, if I click allow and reboot, my drives disappear again and I have to rerun through the process. Does anyone know anything about this software? I've never heard of it before.
 
DUDE! THIS IS IT, YOU FOUND THE PROBLEM !! I reinstalled Ventura and didn't allow this JMicron thing this time and everything shows up !!! Its now back to everything working fine.
 
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That is a problem and I probably have some as well, I just have not found them yet. Most of my addons are updated and obey the rules but there is sure to be one or two that I will find in the next day or two.

Not an ideal solution but better than nothing. I am glad that it helped you.
 
mrotton said:
Following the procedure @matpete documented I was able to resolve my missing drive issue. As I use a couple 3rd party system extensions I then reenabled my previous security policy and the drives persisted after reboot.

After reverting the policy and rebooting I did notice that "Privacy & Security" had a new entry:

System software from developer "JMicron Technology Corp" has been updated.

There is an "Allow" button next to that, if I click allow and reboot, my drives disappear again and I have to rerun through the process. Does anyone know anything about this software? I've never heard of it before.
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JMicron Technology Corp is the company that supplies chips found in a lot of Mac and PC external drives. If you are looking at the devices on the DiskUtility app you will quite often see the JMicron Technology Corp and below that the drive name or volume name.
 
Digging a little further, at least on my system, the offending kext seems to be /Library/Extensions/jmPeripheralDevice.kext

Moved it aside with "sudo mv /Library/Extensions/jmPeripheralDevice.kext ~/". This makes the prompt to allow go away after reboot and drives remain mounted.
 
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mrotton said:
Digging a little further, at least on my system, the offending kext seems to be /Library/Extensions/jmPeripheralDevice.kext

Moved it aside with "sudo mv /Library/Extensions/jmPeripheralDevice.kext ~/". This makes the prompt to allow go away after reboot and drives remain mounted.
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Thank you so much for that, now I can also get rid of that prompt. Been scratching my heads for 2 days over this bug now, I’m so relieved lol.
 
EDIPRINT_DIS said:
hello to all forum members

I have an iMac 27 inch 5k 2020 (Intel) and I upgraded to Mac OS Ventura 13.2, but after upgrading the other Macs on my network can't access the external hard drive (USB) on my iMac and I can access and manipulate from Finder. Do you have any suggestion or solution?

I am attaching here a video to illustrate the problem, where I am trying to access the hard drive from another Mac.

Thanks.



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We have the same problem. M1 Ultra Studio 13.2, whatever device/OS tries to access either the disc inside the Studio or my attached RAID, can get onto the disk, maybe into one folder, but as soon as you open a folder with some files in them, BAM. SafeMode helped a bit – much faster network, strangely enough – but also failed when I tried more complex folders with many files.
Privately I just found out that my MBP14 and 13 M1 have the same problem (in both directions) when I try to access them via Network (internal SSDs)


The IconReset for SMB-Shares you can find online did not help me.
Backblaze-Update did not change anything
SMBD full disk access did not help
Clearing smb.server.plist did not help
and so on – lots of tips but neither of them actually changed that both machines crash when you try to work in remote folders. Finder, AdobeBridge, Forklift – they all crash.

It worked flawlessly with 13.1, not so much with 13.2.
 
FIX for the Ventura 13.2 update display detection issue on my Mac Studio M1 MAX running 2 x third party external monitors (Samsung monitor was fine, LG monitor running as my “extended” one cracked it on first use after Ventura 13.2 update, both are connected via USB-C/thunderbolt).

- Unplugged power + USB-C/thunderbolt cable (at both ends) to the monitor having the issue.
- Ran disc utility first aid on mac HD
- Restarted
- Logged in
- Reconnected USB-C/thunderbolt cable to Mac Studio THEN plugged the power cord back into the monitor and it sprang back to life

For those playing at home, I also do not see the option mentioned re allowing via Privacy and Security settings and tha is still missing. Detect displays in Display settings also didn't do anything, neither did unplugging and replugging or rebooting prior to trying the above steps. I was working my way through least to most tedious solutions 🤣
 
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