High Sierra 10.13.2 move/copy files finder freeze issue

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There appears to be a compatibility issue between the High Sierra 10.13.2 security update and Samba (SMB), the networking protocol. I believe this is an issue to do with Intel processors, but that is as far as my understanding goes.

As a result, moving files on an externally mounted drive on an internal network causes the finder to freeze, (with the message “preparing to copy…”) requiring a manual shutdown to get the computer going again.

We have found a work around as follows:

  1. Eject the drive/computer from the machine where the freeze is happening, using the eject icon in the finder window.
  2. Go to Finder > Go > Connect to server…
  3. Into the server address type afp://xxxx, where xxx is the internal ip address of the server where the drives are located.
  4. Follow your normal connection procedure from here.

This reconnects the drive using the AFP protocol. So far we have been able to have full control over our folders on the externally mounted drive on the internal network. At this point we’re not sure if this requires reconnecting each time you start up, but it would be advisable to turn of any auto load of the drives in the “login items” in your User Preferences.

 

“I’ve come to regard comics as something like a song.”

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Notebook: Ethel
Spread 2.
First drafts, mug drawing, rough mind map, comics and a quote from Lynda Barry.
It’s along the lines of:

“I’ve come to regard comics as something like a song. It can be about anything. We can address all sorts of things in a song, love gone wrong, truck driving, Daddies, smoking, boots, birthdays, cheating, space travel, big butts, revenge, war, a turkey in the straw, regret, genders, hands, purple haze . We can this way we can make comics about anything.”

– Although I did write it down in a hurry!

Fourteen recent Photoghosts.

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Christmas Steps
Christmas Steps, Bristol.
Bar Buvette
Bar Buvette, Baldwin Street, Bristol
Church of SS Quiricus & Julietta
Sheep, near the Church of SS Quiricus & Julietta, Tickenham
FourFountainPens
Christmas came early for me as I managed to bag this set of 4 Gullor fountain pens for a low price with some vouchers I got off my Dad for my birthday. They’re nice and weighty and drawing and writing with them is a dream.
Sunrise near Stone End Batch.
Sunrise near Stone End Batch.
Still some snow on the ground.
Argyle Street, London.
Argyle Street, London.
Somerset Fog
Backwell
Whiteladies Road
Whiteladies Road
Sunset Bristol
Bristol, United Kingdom
Hedge
Hedge
Nailsea
Nailsea
moody cloud shapes.
Moody cloud shapes.
Whiteladies Road Construction
Construction, Bristol, UK
Church Lane
Church Lane

2017 Review: Film

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These are the films I remember watching/rewatching in 2017.

Highly Recommended

The Shape of Water (2017)

Mirror (1975)

Recommended

King Kong (1933)

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Logan (2017)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Spider-man: Homecoming (2017)

Hidden Figures (2016)

Moonlight (2016)

La La Land (2016)

Singing in the Rain (1952)

Legion season 1 (2017)

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 (2017)

Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Dark River (2017)

Inside Out (2015)

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

Putney Swope (1969)

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)

Jessica Jones Season 1 (2015)

Little Women (2017)

Also Seen

Clash of the Titans (2010)

Titanic (1956)

Man of Steel (2013)

Wonder Woman (2017)

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Finest Hour (2016)

Dunkirk (2017)

Iron Fist season 1 (2017)

Batman Begins (2005)

The Dark Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Taboo season 1 (2017)

Not Recommended

Nocturnal Animals (2016)

See also what I read and listened to in 2017.

2017 Review: Music

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Here are some of the highlights of the music I listened to the most in 2017.

There’s a full playlist of the tracks I listen to the most here, and a playlist of all the songs I was recommended/found/started listening to in 2017 here.

As always I keep a rolling playlist of stuff I’m listening to at the moment update nearly daily here.

Deadcrush by Alt-J

Melatonin by A Tribe Called Quest

To Be A Young Man by Nadine Shah

Off You by The Breeders

We Can Talk by The Band

Iron Sky by Paolo Nutini

Girl by The Internet

I Give You Power by Arcade Fire and Mavis Staples

The Heart Part 4 by Kendrick Lamar

Shark Smile by Big Thief

The Wheel by PJ Harvey

Redbone by Childish Gambino

How Long by The Pointer Sisters

Dolphins by Fred Neal

Aggrophobe by PINS, Iggy Pop

Situation by Margaret Glaspy

Rapt by Karen O

All About Me by Syd

Open Eye Signal by Jon Hopkins

See also what I watched and read in 2017.

nobody-but-yourself

Quote | | Paul Greer

A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.

This may sound easy. It isn’t.

A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking.

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.

To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

– e.e.cummings