Finder search results are broken aliases

FWIW, I have done some testing after hitting the same issue. I will state up front that I do not have this problem when searching a share that is serve by another Mac running Sierra. My High Sierra client has the "broken alias" issue when talking to NetApp ONTAP (Proprietary), FreeNAS 11.0U3/4 (Samba 4), & Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. All three of these work without any noticeable issue when the client is running Sierra.

garz75, thanks for opening a ticket. I look forward to your updates.

AllAccessApparelIT as I said earlier in this thread, I opened a case on Oct 18, number 100326092192. They are aware of this thread on discussions.apple.com and realise it impacts many people.

The issue has been confirmed by the support team AND the engineering team: from the Enterprise support team's own words:

> I was able to talk to engineering directly.

> They are aware that its a finder issue & currently investigating however the testing, developing & recoding process takes a very long time

Now the issue needs to included in a Mac OS update... For that they could not give me an ETA.

Update - It looks like version 10.13.4 has fixed this issue. It is currently just in public beta though and I'm not sure when it will be released. Anyone have this kind of knowledge?

Other workarounds here have not worked for me.

As other users suggested, I'm using EasyFind to get around this. Works pretty good, just use the dropdown on the right side to select where you want to search.

Hi,

I have contacted the Apple Support and a case has been opened with their enterprise support. It is currently reviewed by the engineering team... We'll see what is their take on it: we have confirmed it with SMB (Windows server), AFP&NFS (Synology Server). I'll keep you posted here about the status of the support case.

Case ID: 100356936902. I am having the same issue with search results in High Sierra. I have quoted this discussion thread in my numerous chats with Apple Support. I'm using EasyFind as a workaround, which is currently doing the job.

same grief. this high sierra update has broken a fair few things. i get the same problem when searching SMB windows connected remote drives. never used to. latest patch fixed one thing that was broken - Adobe InDesign cursor bug but it's still left me with other bugs.

another really annoying one is when i plug headphones in my macbook pro it mutes it and greys out the un-mute button! thanks apple!

I'm having the same issue on multiple Macs I updated to High Sierra, including erasing the hard drive before reinstalling it clean. I only have the issue on all of my High Sierra machines. It applies to my SMB shares on Windows Server 2012 R2. I wonder if there is a conflict with some software I'm using. Does anyone that has this problem have none of the software I have? My next step is to do a fresh install with no 3rd party software, which may take some time. Here is what I have installed:

* Wacom tablet drivers

* Adobe Creative Suite 6

* TeamViewer 12

* Microsoft Office 2011

* FileMaker Pro 12

Same issue in our office. Clients who are still running Sierra can search SMB drives and open the results just fine. Clients who have upgraded to High Sierra (me) can search SMB drives, but results won't open, and display the broken alias error.

Running 10.13.1.

Hi,

I have High Sierra and a Synology connected via iSCSI using globalSAN. The LUN is formatted NTFS using Paragon NTFS for Mac. When I search even for a file that is displaying in finder (I'm in that folder) the resulting search is just a broken alias. The error message is as everyone else. Trying to repair the alias fails with an error -8060 code.

I think it is an error with searching in an NTFS file system and not an SMB issue. I'm using an iSCSI drive so it is not presented as SMB. I think iSCSI has it's own networking connection, right?

Please help the community and fix this bug.

Hi,

I have High Sierra and a Synology connected via iSCSI using globalSAN. The LUN is formatted NTFS using Paragon NTFS for Mac. When I search even for a file that is displaying in finder (I'm in that folder) the resulting search is just a broken alias. The error message is as everyone else. Trying to repair the alias fails with an error -8060 code.

I think it is an error with searching in an NTFS file system and not an SMB issue. I'm using an iSCSI drive so it is not presented as SMB. I think iSCSI has it's own networking connectionPlease help the community and fix this bug.

I also have the issue with MacOS High Sierra with all the updates (upgraded from Sierra): clicking on a search result on the finder from an NFS or AFP share (Synology NAS) fails with the error : The alias “XXXXXX” can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found.

Has anyone contacted Apple about this issue ?

AllAccessApparelIT I doubt that one of the installed software could be the culprit... The only software I have in common with you is TeamViewer. The support ticket is still open with Apple Enterprise support, and they have asked me followup questions.

I am going to update them about your issue, they asked me about the clean install case...

Thank you garz75. To be specific, this particular iMac I'm working with right now I had no issue with Sierra. Then I updated to High Sierra and discovered the problem. Then, because of the problem, I erased the hard drive in an attempt to install Sierra, but was only able to install High Sierra directly. So this is a pure downloaded-from-Apple clean install. I wish I could go back to Sierra, but I can't figure out how to.

I have had issues browsing both PC servers and Linux servers on our office network since upgrading to High Sierra. I've run all the patches and the system seems to be reverting to 1996 network capabilities. I am trying to use EasyFind in the mean time, but's failing to find items on the network either. I'm running a MacBook Pro 15" with Touch Bar 2016.