I normally don't update to the latest OS until at least 6-8 months in for all sorts of reasons, but my new 16" M3 Max came with it, so I am stuck with it and it's bugs.
For about a decade I have had no issues carefully dragging up to 10,000 photo files at once from one folder to another on the same drive, TB has made this "safe" to do. Yes, you make sure the destination folder is a big target and have to pause and make sure it is highlighted or it will bounce back. I routinely have to move 25,000 to 45,000 of photos to a new folder as part of my archiving regimen as I shoot over 100K photos a year.
Now, with my brand new 16" M3Max that is pretty much top of the line (4TB instead of 8TB SSD) running buggy Sonoma 14.2.1, I get f__king beach balls when dragging just 1,000 photos off a memory card to my inbox folder. I do much better when dragging the top level folder on the card to the desktop then move the files to the inbox folder. When transferring more than 3,000 photos from one folder to the next, finder now "thinks" as it is preparing to move photos from one folder to the next when it is actually moving them, the progress bar is no longer accurate.
The funny thing is, When I drag any amount of photos to one of my RAID externals, it starts the transfer right after doing the check sum like it always has. I think and I hope this is a bug that will be worked out in an upcoming OS update, because I am not going to start using terminal or scripts for something that I have done without issue for a very long time. It's not the drives, it's not the card readers and it is not the cords, it is likely the darn OS.
In my 32 years using macs for my job as a photographer, these kind of hangups are a first and I am wondering if anyone else is having them.
For about a decade I have had no issues carefully dragging up to 10,000 photo files at once from one folder to another on the same drive, TB has made this "safe" to do. Yes, you make sure the destination folder is a big target and have to pause and make sure it is highlighted or it will bounce back. I routinely have to move 25,000 to 45,000 of photos to a new folder as part of my archiving regimen as I shoot over 100K photos a year.
Now, with my brand new 16" M3Max that is pretty much top of the line (4TB instead of 8TB SSD) running buggy Sonoma 14.2.1, I get f__king beach balls when dragging just 1,000 photos off a memory card to my inbox folder. I do much better when dragging the top level folder on the card to the desktop then move the files to the inbox folder. When transferring more than 3,000 photos from one folder to the next, finder now "thinks" as it is preparing to move photos from one folder to the next when it is actually moving them, the progress bar is no longer accurate.
The funny thing is, When I drag any amount of photos to one of my RAID externals, it starts the transfer right after doing the check sum like it always has. I think and I hope this is a bug that will be worked out in an upcoming OS update, because I am not going to start using terminal or scripts for something that I have done without issue for a very long time. It's not the drives, it's not the card readers and it is not the cords, it is likely the darn OS.
In my 32 years using macs for my job as a photographer, these kind of hangups are a first and I am wondering if anyone else is having them.
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