macOS Sierra / Numbers 4.0: Problem with saving on a Synology via AFP

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macOS Sierra / Numbers 4.0: Problem with saving on a Synology via AFP

I updated my Mac to 10.12 Sierra and updated Pages, Numbers and Keynote afterwards to the latest versions.

So far so good, everything running normal.

But unfortunately saving a Numbers file via AFP on a local Synology NAS (DS1815+, latest DSM) caused the application to crash and kicked all connections to shared folders.

Saving on the local HDD is no problem at all.

Then I tried to figure out whether thats a single problem with AFP and killed the AFP file service on the NAS to only start the SMB2 service.

No problem to save on the NAS via SMB.

I tried to save a numbers document on the NAS via AFP from another Mac. This time with an older version of numbers (3.6.2) but on a freshly updated macOS Sierra and it causes the same crash of numbers and all connections to the NAS.

Therefore: It seems to be a problem with macOS Sierra and the AFP server of the current Synology DSM (6.0.2-8451 Update 1).

Is anyone experiencing the same issues? Does anyone have a suggestion for a workaround?

Thanks a lot.

iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 23, 2016 1:16 AM

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dwmreg64

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Sep 23, 2016 7:54 AM in response to mindphunk

It appears that a bug or change has been introduced to how Sierra handles Appleshare connections (AFP). Are you connecting your shares via AFP? If you are then this is why you have the problem you are having. SMB connections seem to work just fine, but there are some issues with it too.

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mindphunk Author

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Sep 23, 2016 9:38 AM in response to dwmreg64

You are absolutely right. I am connected via AFP...

I would love to change to SMB3, because thats Mac's default service now on. But due to the previous usage of AFP a lot of file and folder names are having chars in their names which are not allowed on SMB... This causes the names to be mangled when connecting through SMB. I could turn off mangled names in the smb.conf but I have no clue which other issues that could cause.

Whats about renaming these folders and files automatically (replacing invalid characters with substitutes)?!

Does anyone have a guideline how to change from AFP to SMB the best way? :-) Thanks!

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dwmreg64

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Oct 8, 2016 5:38 PM in response to mindphunk

Synology has released a software update to their NAS software 6.xx and it appears so far to have resolved the AFP issues I was seeing. I'm presenting testing this with a beta release of Sierra.

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