Apple Studio Mac with Ventura 13.4.1 (c) Finder Issue
Suddenly, Red Exclamation Mark Circles have appeared in Finder's Folder and Files on Macintosh HD.
All Folders and Files working normally apart fro red circle. have appeared.
Also Mac Studio will not start in Safe Mode
Urgent help needed
many thanks
Mac Studio, macOS 13.4
Thanks for your reply... I have not got Dropbox. OneDrive was not loaded.
I spent nearly 2 hours with Apple Support including second level engineering. We may have identified the problem?
I use a Cloud Service provider called pCloud with servers in USA and EU. pCloud is an excellent, provider of web based Cloud Services with very high security levels, I am a long term, happy user. However, they have an app called "pCloud Drive" that tries to provide a "virtual" Finder Folder and a Desktop "Drive".
The pCloud Drive app is dependent on a third party utility called "macFUSE". Apple allows this to be integrated with Ventura. macFUSE allows you to extend macOS’s native file handling capabilities via third-party file systems like pCloud.
(Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. also have Finder virtual drive integration apps - I do not use these, but other users may get Red Circle issues?)
Unfortunately; my experiences showed that pCloud Drive had significant Ventura integration problems for some time. I had big issues and removed the early versions (all reported to pCloud Support). The latest pCloud Ventura version seemed to have resolved the problems until "Red Circles" appeared.
I am confident that pCloud will resolve things, but for the time being; I removed pCloud Drive and my Red Circles are gone (I hope it is soon fixed).
Hope this helps.
Thanks for your reply... I have not got Dropbox. OneDrive was not loaded.
I spent nearly 2 hours with Apple Support including second level engineering. We may have identified the problem?
I use a Cloud Service provider called pCloud with servers in USA and EU. pCloud is an excellent, provider of web based Cloud Services with very high security levels, I am a long term, happy user. However, they have an app called "pCloud Drive" that tries to provide a "virtual" Finder Folder and a Desktop "Drive".
The pCloud Drive app is dependent on a third party utility called "macFUSE". Apple allows this to be integrated with Ventura. macFUSE allows you to extend macOS’s native file handling capabilities via third-party file systems like pCloud.
(Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. also have Finder virtual drive integration apps - I do not use these, but other users may get Red Circle issues?)
Unfortunately; my experiences showed that pCloud Drive had significant Ventura integration problems for some time. I had big issues and removed the early versions (all reported to pCloud Support). The latest pCloud Ventura version seemed to have resolved the problems until "Red Circles" appeared.
I am confident that pCloud will resolve things, but for the time being; I removed pCloud Drive and my Red Circles are gone (I hope it is soon fixed).
Hope this helps.
I have had an extensive conversation with support@pcloud.com. This is not an Apple issue. It relates to the way pCloud's drive app interacts with Ventura. pCloud support are aware of the issue. I suggest you contact them by email to support@pcloud.com.
Will only be fixed by a stable update to the pCloud drive app. I suggest you remove the app completely, then download latest version from pCloud and try again.
I think I have discovered that - If the pCloud Drive app is terminated using the normal Mac approach i.e. using "Eject pCloud Drive", on the FUSE pCloud drive icon: then, the Finder "red peril" appears.
I am surprised that pCloud support seem to have missed that, perhaps pCloud's "devotion" to FUSE is the issue?
If you quit pCloud via the Menu Bar icon, the red circles do not appear, ( at least on my Ventura Mac).
I hope this helps.
Are you running any of the cloud services like DropBox or OneDrive? Those may be putting them there.
What happens at each step of trying to startup in Safe Mode?
Do you have FileVault enabled?
Experiencing the same issue with pCloud. Any update or solution?
Thank you!
Much appreciated...I've had similar findings, and will "encourage" pCloud support to correct this.
Be well!
Thank you...that does help. I continue to discuss this with pCloud.
Much appreciated!
Suddenly, Red Exclamation Mark Circles have appeared in Finder
