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Ventura 13.2 File Sharing broken

After the update to Mac OS Ventura 13.2 none of my Macs are unable to access each others' files. I am using iMacs, Macbook Air M2 and MacMini M1 on my network and everything was working flawlessly for years until this update (including latest additions of MBAir M2 and MMini M1).

The said, affected machines are still able to access the files on other Macs, on the same network, that have previous versions of Mac OS.

Sometimes, after turning off File Sharing and restarting the machines and turning back on File Sharing I am able to access the shared folders on internal SSD, but never on external disks. All of these external disks I've been using all the time shared between all of the machines.

Anyone?

I reported this, presumable, bug to Apple.

MacBook Air (M2)

Posted on Jan 26, 2023 4:03 AM

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trehling

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Posted on Feb 7, 2023 1:46 AM

Just to share what helped for me:

Symptom:

No connection, always the "Beachball", no backups possible

Setup:

Use Mini M1 as a server (with several external NVMe disks shared)
Connection with several MBPs (all M1) - Use Carbon Copy Cloner for automated Backups
All Ventura 13.2

First I tried to fix it with the solutions mentioned here

Stop - reboot - start file sharing of M1 Server again -> not solved
Eliminating custom icon on top-level -> not solved
Tried to renew connection to the server via SMB://10.... (Server IP) -> not solved

Finally I remembered that I also have a Raspberry pi 4 which is connected via CIFS to the Mac mini (also for backing up files)

Then I tried to connect my MacBookPro with CIFS instead of SMB - I entered cifs://10..... (Server IP).

E voila since then it was possible to reconnect to the MacMini Server. I reconnected all laptops using cifs:// and the connection is up and running - I know cifs is more or less an outdated dialect of SMB - but hey, who cares. I was able to backup 45GB file via (Gigabit LAN) within 9 minutes, so performance seems OK.

Until then the system is up and running (since Sun., 5th) Don't know if "CIFS" was the key (or a combination of everything I tried), but it seems that this solves currently my situation until Apple will come up with an official solution.

I will observe it and give an update if something changes

-T

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ctphoto1

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Apr 13, 2023 8:11 AM in response to prfraczek

Curios, what is your hardware setup?

It fixed my setup, Mac Studio, external TB4 RAID drive, shared folder on it to other Macs on network through Netgear switch.

Apr 13, 2023 8:14 AM in response to ctphoto1

m2air to m2 air

ctphoto1

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Apr 13, 2023 8:19 AM in response to prfraczek

Wired, wifi, through a switch???

May 19, 2023 3:15 PM in response to zoranm

Has anyone had a chance to see if the issue persists with Ventura 13.4 just released?

Feb 19, 2024 4:39 AM in response to zoranm

Visually disabled, so I am the last one to suspect Apple if anything goes wrong in Photos. My latest curiosity is how to be rid of the 'shared' vs 'personal' library. Led to believe this was reversible, when I asked AppleCare how to do this, it was explained to me how lucky I am that it is now so easy to share photos, only it isn't. My AppleCare lesson there was give it up. Managing a photo library in Finder was a miserable experience even when my eyes were working fine. I was reluctant to use iCloud because of my 10,000 files, but I had to, because my 2019 iMac was not playing nice with the Mac Studio, which was designed to help video professionals (who are gradually switching to Unix over recent months because they would like to keep their working relationships). I figured from now on I would use Photos for only new images, leaving what's recoverable of my old files on external devices. I have decided 30 years' worth of photos and video are not worth the trouble. Just to let you Apple loyalists born after 1980 know what lies in store.

I wonder if someone could provide some hope for managing video files, besides "learn Windows." Is there reason to hope 14.3 will fix even just my Photo library? It has gotten hard to trust software updates when to keep a fraction of my photos, I had better use a separate 10TB drive.

I know there are generous souls here in the community. Here's hoping one of you reads this.Not trying to be bitter, but have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Apple gear since 1983.

Donna-l

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Mar 28, 2023 6:51 AM in response to zoranm

Just updated air book to 13.2.1 and NYT games no longer synced. Fixed by going into general - sharing - all sharing was turned off. Turned on file sharing and media sharing.

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