Network Diagnostics app missing

Why would Apple do away with such an essential tool???????????

howdy,

earlier in this thread apple contact links have been posted, however, if you are unable to see them for some reason,

let them know your about your frustration at:

Feedback - macOS - Apple

I thought it was gone too, so I asked siri "network utility" and it popped up. I then when to tool bar and 'show in finder' to find it's new location. glad it isn't gone!

Macintosh HD/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/

Apologies, I was in my Sierra partition when I found this.

This does not appear to be a valid location on my High Sierra boot drive.

I'm diagnosing another issue with 10.13 (Which is why I booted back to 10.12) but I did see 10.12 has this functionality inside the >About this mac

Not sure if 10.13 has this option:

Can you add yourself to the Sharing & Permissions pane, otherwise you may need to disable System Integrity Protection, boot to your Recovery Disk go to Utilities ,click on Terminal and enter csrutil disable press return and then reboot.

I've followed all these instructions to the letter and now Wireless Setup Asst works, but Network Diagnostics keeps crashing on opening. Any idea why this would be?

Cannot believe Apple removed this great little app!

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Alas blanchr, I could not agree more; and I have been using Apple computer since the days of the old Apple II.

As an aside, I really don't care for the way that Apple is making my desktop look like a Macbook or iPad, but that is just me (guess that's why I use Terminal so much.)

I'm afraid I'm not tech savy so I need a real detailed step-by-step please? Where do I find the Sierra install?

Ugh................ why Apple???? Why do you do this with one of the most valuable tools?

Seriously.

After reading all these thoughtful and helpful suggestions for a work around, which I wouldn't dare try for fear of mucking something up, it just drives home the point that Apple seriously screwed up by deleting the Network Assistant from High Sierra. It was readily available, reliably worked to get the network up and running again, and needed frequently. What was Apple thinking?

Apple has always been rather arrogant about what they think users need or don't need. This is a legacy of Steve Jobs. I can only guess that they thought Network Diagnostics was no longer needed. Please register your disagreement with Apple here: Feedback - macOS - Apple

Thanks for this. I am not a programmer but I followed almost all your instructions and I have Network Diagnostics working again. As a novice, however, I don’t understand the meaning of “Change owner of all files to root and permissions to rwxr-xr-x.” Which files, precisely? What does it mean to change their ownership to “root”? Do these things need to be done from Terminal? The new files I placed in the system folder seem to have my personal account as owner, whereas the other files have “system” as owner. To be more precise, when I display information for the newly added files (such as Network Setup Assistant) under sharing and permissions I see on the first line my username with read & write privileges, on the second line staff with read privileges, and on the third line everyone with read only privileges. Do I need to change the name on the first line to “system”? If so, how?

You're responses have been helpful, but........... I use MAC because I don't have to learn all the details behind how it works; it just works.

If I take my Macbook Pro to a Simply MAC store, do you think they can find Network Diagnostics and reinstall it for me? I honestly read everything you've shared and it's pretty much all Greek to me.

PS - I did send feedback to Apple about this, such a shame really.

@Lolle123, if you have upgraded your Mac to High Sierra, you will not find Sierra on it anymore. You will only find it if you kept a backup, such as a Time Machine backup, of your Sierra installation. That means you must not have backed up your Mac since upgrading to High Sierra.

I think a number of readers of this forum could do with an updated version of your instructions, including permissions management - you could also send it to Apple and suggest they add it to their Knowledge base (or perhaps they don't want their customers to use the Network Diagnostics and Network Setup Assistant apps anymore!)