Files App: Couldn't Communicate with a helper application

Solve the problem resulting from updating with Catalina, used my external hard drive to restore to an earlier time and got everything back minus my music library, and photo album, which I also recovered from an older back up and pages was returned in the original form that I’m used to using by saving several open documents to the upper part of my screen which is numerous open pages that I can forefinger scroll through from right to left or vice a versa, which gives me the ability two combine certain pages and re-design. Then I went to my Mac and turned off automatic updates so that I can wait a month or so to check online and see what problems were caused and fixed before I update. I feel that Candelita leader was not ready for a distribution yet even though it had some nice additions to it. It would be important to update and have the new additions without taking some of our most important work spaces away Or deleting them etc.

This is a well known issue and your response is almost insulting. The problem is iPadOS and the Files app. Just tell people that there is nothing apple is doing about it and to cross their fingers each OS release.

Another one here.

Really simple use case (and this is only an issue because Apple won’t allow Safari to download direct to OneDrive (which is just shocking in itself)

1. I want to download videos from Vimeo, and keep them on OneDrive (I want to use OneDrive as my storage medium of choice for various reasons (including iCloud space being expensive relatively)
2. I have to firstly use Safari on the iPad (no desktop available) to download the Vimeo video via Safari - which only allows downloads to iCloud, no other cloud services. (You can download locally but the iPad space won’t allow that)
3. I then want to select 50 videos (but 10 would do) at a time and simply copy them across to OneDrive

This is with OneDrive in use on the iPad, open, restarted etc etc and every time I get this help application error - and I then have to check which ones made it and which ones didn’t.

Such a nightmare - I’m just an average guy with family videos that’s trying to do stuff, and Apple seem to be making it super hard

My advice and idea after many years of owning even at the present time up to 16 Apple products, I have turned off my updates on my iPhone 7 and my iPad pad pro and my Mac pro because Catalina really did a number on me

Thankfully I had everything backed up so I was able to fix my phone, my iPad, and my Mac Pro and then I shut off my updates!

Until Apple stops using us as guinea pigs to fix the glitches in their bells and whistle's programs I will just go online see what everybody else has to say about the update six months later and then make a decision if I'm going to even update.

My husband at work has a 2008 update which I believe makes it 12 years old?? The only reason that computer is still running is because we turned off updates long ago. Unfortunately Apple is going to lose its edge unless it stops sending us unnecessary update in the form of bells and whistle's that we do not need or want in most cases of course I speaking for myself.

How to get rid of Catalina I wiped my Mac clean reinstalled September 18 where it worked just perfectly and now I'm back in working order again. Even the new update on my iPhone erased some of my ringtones which I had bought

Mac Pro I bought a movie through Apple paid for it and now it has disappeared and even though I went to Apple it showed no purchase of a movie now how can that be? Crazy crazy crazy

I have this same issue any time I try to compress large folders into zip in the Files app or trying to copy into OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive.

Suggestion does not work for me. Try selecting 20 pictures, won’t work

I've passed this issue vice versa - opened Google drive and uploaded multiple photos from gallery through the Google app.. Anyway, the first way doesn't work even after that.

I've marked your answer helpful, accidentally, but it isn't - in general. Have you tried this with multiple (e.g. 20) items? In general this doesn't help.

I'm trying this now. Thank you for the suggestion!

I’ve been having the same problem with Dropbox.

Thanks hardehir.

You are absolutely correct!

I also had a same proble when uncompressing some zip files.

Thumb drives are also real handy I have several just in case something happens to one thumb drive I still have back ups on at least two others of everything photos - documents etc.