Hello Grant,
Thank you for your help.
Well, I really can’t understand what’s going on since I upgraded to High Sierra, prior to this time, that forced me to restore my machine.
Mine is:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
Processor 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
Storage: (currently) 469.65 GB available of 500.07 GB (Generally, not less than 300 GB free space is available in the old days)
Most of the files/backup are located on external drives to reduce the pressure on the machine
I bought my machine early 2014 and had to restore it only early 2017 and the process went very smoothly and quite fast. It resumed functioning very well till suddenly I started receiving issues after updating Sierra’s version; freezing and continuous crashing, though I had everything updated excluding High Sierra as I was hesitating to upgrade to it because of the negative reviews. I updated my Adobe Lightroom version to Classic CC 7.3 and Photoshop CC 2018 (19.1), assuming that it could be the reason behind the continuous crash of both of them. However, it went fine couple of days, till suddenly the difficulties returned again. Neither additional softwares were launched nor there was a change in the sequence of the daily performance. In addition to that, external drives kept disconnecting suddenly, though Paragon was installed. Therefore, I decided to upgrade to High Sierra when the catastrophe began. I was unable to finish even 5 minutes of continues editing. Everything was slow, navigating between files, applications and evening surfing the net was a nightmare. To an extent that my machine started crashing and restarting several times a day; to less than 3 minutes between each incident.
It forced me to restore my machine. Thanks God, I was saving most of my files on external drives, yet it consumed me several days to try to move some of the files on my machine via bluetooth as no external drive was mounting. iCloud storage never an option because of sensitive documents. And it consumed me almost three days to restore my machine.
I installed High Sierra with your help, presuming the latest version could be better, and shifted to
iBoysoft from Paragon.
Currently:
- My machine is still slow, though the freezing duration is less a bit than before.
- Lightroom: keeps freezing though the GPU is disabled and I reseted the preferences as instructed by Lightroomquee.com. I reported the incidents, but solution was found. In addition to that, files modification dates appear as 01/01/1970 though the creation date is correct. I neither had a problem with my battery nor the machine was unplugged to power during the restoration process (an online finding). They suggested downloading convertors, but there must be a solution rather than that. It doesn’t make sense to continue converting - in the future - each new exported file every time.
- NTFS: external drives stop mounting suddenly.
I really don’t know what to do. Shall I restore the machine again and install Sierra? What reliable NTFS shall I buy as it seems iBoysoft and Paragon that are listed as top 3 NTFS softwares - both confirmed supporting High Sierra - are not performing? (They could be good, but the issue is with the operating system). The same applies to Adobe softwares, I really need them, but I couldn't benefit from my subscription this month because of the crashing. It is really so frustrating to keep paying for services that do not function.
Any suggestion and guidelines?!
