Ventura 13.2 File Sharing broken

Pretty much any folder, apart from those in the home directory, can have a "custom" icon. It is the choice of the user. If you click on "information" for a folder, the icon appears at the top left. An icon with an extension ".icns" can be dragged to replace the default icon of the folder. Alternatively, one can also drag an image file with extension ".png" to create a custom icon. To delete the custom icon, simply select the image in the top left corner and delete it. This restores the default icon.

You can find many "custom" icons on line at sites such as : https://macosicons.com/ .

This way of managing icons also works for applications.

Does anyone know how we will be able to tell when Apple pushes out a fix? Is there some webpage they posts what updates have been addressed?

My current setup as a workaround can not be easily switched back and forth to test again and again. Watching some webpage for news would be great.

Developer's webpage????

Yeah it's getting kind of ridiculous at this point. We now have 10 pages of back and forth with each other and no real solution to this problem. Only Apple engineers are going to create an actual fix to this problem. I know plenty of us including myself have brought this to Apple's attention, whether through Apple Care or otherwise. I just hope to God they fix this in the next update. This is a basic networking function that I've never had issues using in previous versions of MacOs.

The fix is definitely forthcoming. Due to odd posting restrictions on Apple's forums I apparently can't simply state how I know this regarding something labelled "public" by Apple. But I've tested it and the issue is now resolved. So the fix is only pending the next release.

Good show ! Thank you for the encouraging news. I had noticed that a few posts to this forum had been edited by Apple. To me, that is a sign that they know the problem and are working to correct it. They are wise to manage communications in such a way as not to create any confusion.

I updated earlier tonight. Test three of my four systems (Two Mac Pros and one iMac Pro) and they all seem to be communicating with no issue.

Tomorrow my staff come in and it will get a full workout. If anything misfires I will let you know, but so far so good.

I just did the update. It took a few minutes for the volumes to mount and the sharing to enable, but yes indeed. The problem is fixed. Thank you Apple, but please.... It should just work. Don't break something the community relies on like this again.

I can't help but wonder if this isn't 100% fixed. I'm using the Ventura 13.3 update and it was working. But I restarted both my Mac Studio and Macbook Pro this morning and now file share is not working again. Something happens when you restart machines. Have you tried shutting down and restarting any of your Macs since updating 3 or your 4 systems?

I'm still having issues. It was working right after the 13.3 update, but after shutting down my machines and restarting them, file sharing no longer works. I've tried shutting down and restarting several times since, going into system settings making sure "smbd" has full disk access, making sure file sharing is still on. And unfortunately, I'm just not having a good reliable experience with file sharing....still....wtf

I installed 13.4 a few days ago and that's when the problem began! None of the fixes here seem to work for sharing files between a MBP (M2 Max) to an Apple TV.

Oddly sharing to another MBP does seem to work.

Very annoyed about this!

Same problem as others, but I'm not using any custom icons or any of the apps you mentioned.

OK. So there is really no work-around until Apple fixes this issue?

Me too. I even bought a new router, but all to no avail.