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macOS Catalina: Bug can fill up storage space [UPDATE]

by Milan
April 29, 2020
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Anapa, Russia - February 22, 2020: Backgrounds MacOS Catalina on screen MacBook Pro 16 and iPhone 11 in the table man hand. MacBook Pro 16 and iPhone 11 was created and developed by the Apple inc.

Anapa, Russia - February 22, 2020: Backgrounds MacOS Catalina on screen MacBook Pro 16 and iPhone 11 in the table man hand. MacBook Pro 16 and iPhone 11 was created and developed by the Apple inc.

Die bekannte macOS Anwendung “Digitale Bilder” scheint einen altbekannten Bug unter macOS Catalina zu beherbergen. Dieser kann beim Importieren von Fotos den freien Speicherplatz schnell volllaufen lassen. [UPDATE: See below]

Die vorinstallierte Anwendung “Digitale Bilder” war bereits in der Vergangenheit für Fehler anfällig. Mit Hilfe dieser App können Nutzer schnell und unkompliziert Bilder sowie Videos von anderen Geräten importieren. Doch nun soll der Speicherplatz darunter leiden können. Das heißt, der Bug kann im schlimmsten Fall die Platte volllaufen lassen. Das berichten Entwickler von NeoFinder. Dem Beitrag zufolge sollen allerdings nur Nutzer betroffen sein, die Bilder von einem iPhone oder iPad importieren. NeoFinder explains the whole thing as follows:

Each image receives an empty file

Wenn Sie ein iPhone oder iPad an Ihren Mac anschließen und “Digitale Bilder” verwenden, um die mit dem Gerät aufgenommenen Fotos auf den Mac zu übertragen, haben Sie die Möglichkeit, die von iOS aufgenommenen HEIC-Fotos in weitere Standard-JPG-Dateien zu konvertieren. Dazu müssen Sie die Option “Originale behalten” in den Einstellungen für dieses iOS-Gerät deaktivieren. Apples Image Capture konvertiert dann die HEIF-Dateien in das JPG-Format, wenn sie auf Ihren Mac kopiert wurden.

The problem discovered by the NeoFinder team is that the Mac under macOS Catalina adds around 1.5 MB of empty data to each converted image, which makes the imported files larger for no reason. This means that a small hard drive can quickly fill up with large amounts of images. Either way, it's a pretty annoying problem. According to NeoFinder, Apple has already been informed of the error. This means that an update should follow soon. If you don't want to wait until then and have been caught by the bug, you can download the latest Beta version of Graphic Converter that can remove the data garbage. (Photo by Denys Prykhodov / Bigstockphoto)

Update from April 30, 2020

After we published this article yesterday and drew attention to the bug, the NeoFinder team contacted us and shared their latest findings. According to them, the problem seems to be much more serious than initially thought. This means that the error affects all Mac applications that can transfer images from iOS to the Mac, including Adobe Lightroom, Affinity Photo, Apple's own older iPhoto, as well as Aperture and the old PhaseOne MediaPro. But how can that be? NeoFinder has determined in further analysis that the bug is deep in the ImageCaptureCore framework of macOS. Since this framework must be used by developers to transfer images from digital cameras and iOS devices, logically all applications in this area are affected. There is one exception, however. 

macOS update only helps to a limited extent

NeoFinder zufolge bleibt Apples “Fotos”-App davon verschont, da diese auf ein unbekanntes Framework zugreift, worauf nur Apple Zugang hat. Dem Schreiben zufolge wird ein macOS Update den Fehler zwar beheben aber den Schaden nicht rückgängig machen. Das heißt, die bereits vorhandenen Zusatzdaten können durch einen Patch nicht entfernt werden. Betroffene können allerdings auf das cataloging tool from NeoFinder This will receive an update (version 7.5.2) on Monday, May 4th, and will be able to detect and remove such additional data. 

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