verifying progress bar on every file.

Hey!

I HAVE A SOLUTION (don't know if temporary or permanent).

I changed my samba share connection script from:

smb://<share name>

to

cifs://<share name>

and now it is working as before!!

Let me know your experience on this.

Fabio

More on this.

It is not a cifs or smb issue.

If I connect to the drive with the applescript:

tell application "Finder" to open location "smb://<share>"

I get the "verifying" problem. If I just open the server conection window in FInder (Cmd-K) and write:

smb://<share>

it works...

If I connect to the drive with the applescript:

tell application "Finder" to open location "smb://<share>"

Is your drive FileVaulted?

I'm curious because when I try to connect using AppleScript, I get a kernel panic. I think the panic may be related to an encrypted volume, but not certain.

I was going to try to see what differences occur when connecting using each method, but obviously cannot at this point.

I was going to try to see what differences occur when connecting using each method, but obviously cannot at this point.

I looked at the two mounting options on another Mac and the only difference I could see was a call to smb_mount with mntflags of 0x0 when Connect to Server was used and 0x400 on an AppleScript mount.

I couldn't find any references for those values (or smb_mount or mntflags for that matter).

Perhaps there is someone out there that might be able to determine if those would matter.

If the mount method matters (i.e. it works for others having the problem), here are some other ways to mount network shares (old article, but most probably still work):

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100403050702737

It's happening to a lot of people including myself. Has me regretting updating... as I usually always do. They need to sort this out ASAP as it's taking more than 20 minutes to verify basic mp4 files. It also puts my entire computer in a stupor and the whole system doesn't work properly...

When mounting the share with an Applescript, I get the "quarantine" flag on the share. If I mount it from Finder "Connect to Server" the flag is not there.

Quarantine is a side-effect. The issue is in the mounting code.

You can remove the side-effect, but this will expose your Mac to vulnerability and you didn't fixed the problem.

You're an absolute legend for fixing this for me until apple can sort themselves out. Which I have been told they are currently doing...

I was wonder if you did: defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool YES .... if that would turn the security back on?

So

Here is my take on it.

Pro

Well done apple for implementing a quarantine feature to check file coming from untrusted sources.

Con

Bad implementation for waiting for use to interact with the file before scanning it.

This would be a great feature if the scanning could just take place in the background say over night or something.

Is there a way to script a scan and verify command?

Matt

Looks like the issue is fixed. I have two machines, my primary Mac I've held off updating. My wife's computer had the issue and just installed 10.13.1 and appears to resolve the issue on the limited large video files I've tested. I'm planning to update to 10.13.1 on my primary machine and will update if I have further problems.

This doesn't belong here but I want Apple to know that just because I click the "I have this question too" button it does not automatically mean that "I don't have this question anymore". That's a poor way to handle it. It's absurd that this many people are writing in about such a ridiculous bug. That's coming from a QA guy, for the record.

Guys, I am getting this problem and I am on the latest version of OS High Sierra 10.13. 2. I never had this before but every time I open either an mp4 or an mkv file using VLC I get a pop up saying that it has to verify the file this takes between 2 to 4 minutes to complete and appears to be stuck at 60% and then eventually plays the file. What on earth is going on? Can anyone from Apple or somebody that knows what is going wrong please help. Because this is extremely annoying because I have quite a lot of Mp4 and MkV files on a NAS drive.

Thanks

Harry

Hi, I've upgraded to OS High Sierra 10.13.2 and am experiencing the same problem. Every time I want to play a video in VLC it has to be verified first. I would gladly use QuickTime player, but it doesn't support all the formats. Any alternatives to the VLC player that is trusted by Apple except QuickTime player?

I'm setting up my new iMac Pro (it's on OS X 10.13.2), and having this issue, but worse, because the verification always fails, and I get a message telling me that the file is damaged and should be moved to the trash. In the case of videos and images that I have transferred from my old Mac, I can open them once successfully (in Quicktime or Preview), but after that I can't open them any more because they are supposedly damaged. In the case of newly created or downloaded files, they can't be opened at all. This includes downloaded installers (.dmg files).

Look I don't know if this will help you but I had the same problems as you with opening MP4 and other media files and some applications taking a very long time to open and sometimes they just wouldn't open but then I read on a forum or a thread that someone had deleted their anti-virus which was called Avira and everything worked the way it should do. Well I also had Avira and once I deleted it everything worked the way it should have.....mp4 files opened in VLC without any problem and applications opened on one click....no spinning ball. So maybe there is an anti-virus software or some other software/application on your system that is causing the problems. Hope this helps.....as I say it worked for me.

Ok I have deactivated the FileVault and it seems to be working now. The request to verify the files before they are played in VLC is no longer there. With the FileVault now deactivated, is the computer exposed to more danger regarding the malware?