Safari update 14.0.1 issue uploading files

It was frustrating reentering all my passwords into Chrome, but yes Chrome works totally fine. I would assume many apple developers and employees are suffering from the same problem. It's hard to understand how they could let this remain unresolved for so long.

Very interesting! I doubt that figure very much. More than 10 (many more, I think) have reported it in these “Communities”!

But what I am looking at here? I have submitted this too (twice!), and I have never seen such an info screen before. I am intrigued!

I've reported it via user feedback.

My solution was to re-install macOS 10.14.6 via Internet Recovery - that version comes with Safari 12.1.2 which does work. Now I just have to make sure not to install any of the Safari "updates" of 14.0.1 and 14.0.2 both of which are listed as need updates. What a mess!

I've had the problem with the "attach" button also on my Safari browser with gmail. My laptop is fairly new - I've only been using since late October 2020, and initially everything worked well. Then the "attach" button stopped working. It only happens with Safari Mojave 14.10.6 that is on this computer. I saw this suggested work around to "drag and drop files" while a fix is figured out. Thank you for the suggestion. It is working so far. I don't have the confidence or skill to reload my operating system and all that goes with it. So this drag and drop is ok for now. As others have said, given the cost of these Apple products (and this problem only occurs on the gmail on my MacBookAir), these basic functions like "attach" should work quite well.

Yes, I am having the same problem. I can no longer upload attachments to Gmail or other sites since I loaded the latest version of Safari, Version 14.0.2 (14610.3.7.1.10).

It's a real inconvenience since I have to upload receipts to my accounting software.

Help

I have an older MacBook Air and am experiencing the same. Unfortunately I cannot do the workaround with my accounting software. But I will have to login via Modzilla.

And it doesn't help that Apple changed the whole viewing experience for Safari and I have since lost most of my top sites. I don't know where to look for them to reattach. They should have left well enough alone. But if you are a tech writer in order to justify your job, you need to invent these changes.

Safari Update 14.02 - just installed to see if it fixes the issue of attaching docs with Mojave - it doesn't!? Thanks for absolutely nothing Apple. That was your chance to redeem yourself... you failed.

Of all the boneheaded things Apple has done from the staggering overpriced Lisa to the Pippin gaming console to the hockey puck mouse to throttling iPhone batteries to arguably iTunes (so bloated) to Maps noting seems as idiotic as the bug in Safari that won’t allow downloads or attachments. Safari is not some nice to have or cursory software, it is central to most user’s everyday workflow. It must be a simple fix yet they have ignored it now for two versions. Forcing users to switch to Chrome or Firefox - many permanently seems like a very bad business decision. For a company built on elegant user interfaces and ease of use not acknowledging, let alone fixing, this bug is incomprehensible.

Safari is garbage, like the rest of Big Sur and Apple's bugfest. They no longer fix their software—they just delay until they've released new software with more pressing bugs.

1) Safari, their internet browser—it's hard to think of a more important program—is totally unusable as it crashes constantly with:

Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason: Namespace ASSERTIOND, Code [XXXXXXXX]

2) iCloud tabs don't work—except infrequently and intermittently they'll work briefly in one or another device, but never in any way to be usable.

3) Handoff doesn't work reliably or consistently—but sometimes does, in only one or the other direction.

4) Reminders don't sync—of all the ridiculous and pathetic things.

All of this stuff worked fine before Big Sur—but of course there were a million problems with Catalina that were never resolved.

Same here! I have an iMac. I tried using Outlook email and attaching a file from my computer. When I click the paperclip to attach, and click "Browse this computer", nothing happens!! I tried my gmail, using safari....same thing!!! I then tried google chrome, to see if it is an issue with safari. My attachments work with Google Chrome!!! So my computer was set to auto update, which I just turned off. What is the fix? How annoying!!!! I have Safari version: 14.0.2. I also have the Mac OS Mojave version 10.14.6. PLEASE HELP!!!! This just started a few weeks ago, I'm thinking my computer did an auto update and since then I cannot attached any files to any emails or photo editing websites!!!

Apple literally just released Safari 14.0.2 for Mojave today and guess what? FILE UPLOAD IS STILL BROKEN. MacRumors' functionality works, which is weird, but any other site that has a normal "choose file" button doesn't work:

See on https://ps.uci.edu/~franklin/doc/file_upload.html or https://viljamis.com/filetest/ (websites you can test basic browser file upload capabilities).

Stop giving us this terrible support, @Crapple.

Steve Jobs would be sad.

There are two workarounds:

1) Most times dragging and dropping the file works; or

2) Re-install Mojave from Recovery which gives you Safari 12.2.1, then do the updates EXCEPT for Safari 14.0.1 and 14.0.2. You end up with Safari 14.0 which has none of these issues.

The issues seem confined to Mojave. I think it's Apple way of trying to encourage us to upgrade. First there was the kernel crashes on sleep/shutdown/wakeup only solved by doing a Big Sur install (to an external drive) to update the T2 BridgeOS. Then there is the fact that, after all that, the Crash Reporter now crashes when trying to send Apple crash reports. It's an upgrade conspiracy :-)

Yeah, I think most folks are aware of those workarounds by now, but thanks for reposting them. I would upgrade if I wouldn’t lose 32-bit support. Been a Mac dude since 1996 (and that’s not even counting the first computer my folks got, an Apple IIc), but I am pretty close to jumping ship next time I am looking for a desktop computer.

Yes, I am have the exact same problem, running the same system, and having to use the same work around of running iCloud on google chrome. How bizarre is that? Not being able to use APPLE Safari to run APPLE iCloud successfully!

The Update for 14.0.1 has been removed from the update list at Mojave. So only 14.0.2 is available. Since Apple sometimes released an Update with the same release number but fixed bugs, did anybody here checked already?