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Updated to 13.1 and now file "can't be found"

George Dawes said:
Had to do another restart / reset as the corners weren't activating for expose SMH

I have to say Ventura is the worst Mac OS I've ever used , it's just utter garbage

I had a mini on sierra then high sierra , think I had to restart once in 4-5 years !!!
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what does this have to do with the topic of this thread? 🙄
 
@fisherking Are you still good? I hate this annoying bug and experience it every day on 13.3.1. Can't wait for 13.4 to release if this is really fixed 🙏
 
babs_colorado said:
Greetings.

I spent 4 hours with Apple support the past few days, and while I don't know if this is the right answer for all, it has to do with the login items for apps that maybe have been deleted but are still lingering on the system, particularly within LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons. I learned that with Ventura, the login setup pages shows all apps that are firing up at startup. One can then slide on or off. With previous OS versions, its not so clear cut. I'll see if I can located the website again but...

Steps would be as follows.

1. Go to Finder
2. Go to "Go" in the menu
3. Drop down to "Go to folder" near the bottom.

4. Type in Launch. You should then see the two items LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons. Look to see if you have old apps that you've deleted but still have remnants here. Consider deleting them.

5. I was then told to do the same thing again, but this time hold the option key, hit go again, drop down to "go to folder" and do the same search. Repeat. You can look at the source, and of course, don't delete anything that is an apple function. Otherwise you can blow things up within your system. You could just skip this system option and stick with #4 to see how it goes.

I probably had 20 apps still trying to run at startup. We deleted one at a time, rebooted, and kept doing it but eventually the "the file can't be found" disappeared.

What's strange, and I guess it's why Apple redesigned Ventura, is that the user would have no idea that these things are still hanging around. Nothing nefarious (though the screen viewing apps were the worst offenders), but still sketchy that they could have been used for bad things.

Good luck.
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Same problem running 13.3.1 , when I follow instructions and type launch nothing appears but this is already in the top /Users/my name/Library/Caches
 
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susis51 said:
Same problem running 13.3.1 , when I follow instructions and type launch nothing appears but this is already in the top /Users/my name/Library/Caches
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yes, as discussed; 13.3.1 (still) has the problem. for me, it stopped in 13.4, and is not here in 13.5... and i don't miss it 🤣
 
I've only done a couple of quick tests in 13.4 (22F66). I can no longer reproduce the bug that was almost always reproducible before 13.4. The specific bug I'm referring to is triggered when trying to open a file after renaming its containing folder. That bug always produced a popup showing an error.

There might be other bugs that people are discussing in this thread.
 
It hasn't happened to me either since updating to 13.4. There might still be some rare ways to trigger this bug, but they seem to have squashed the most common ones.
 
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