<story><title>If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thought_alarm</author><text>How did Disk Utility.app go from being one of the great built-in OS X utilities to the embarrassing amateurish shit show that it is today?&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the same people responsible for the file system engineering are also responsible for developing this user-facing application.  They might excel at low level system engineering, but they are utterly unqualified to develop a high level GUI application.&lt;p&gt;Spend 5 minutes with the app and you&amp;#x27;ll find a half dozen bugs and amateurish mistakes.  It&amp;#x27;s baffling, and it&amp;#x27;s been a problem for two years now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Osmium</author><text>There have been a few cases like this. Presumably the original was created&amp;#x2F;maintained by just one person, they move on, and then when the next person comes along they decide it&amp;#x27;s easier to re-write than modify the old code. But they don&amp;#x27;t have sufficient time and the new version is inferior to the old.&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind the old version &lt;i&gt;did&lt;/i&gt; need to be updated (new CoreStorage features, has to handle Fusion drives, now APFS).&lt;p&gt;I get the sense there&amp;#x27;s a lot of shuffling between teams in Apple, and teams are a lot smaller than you&amp;#x27;d expect, and this is the inevitable result. The advantage (I&amp;#x27;m guessing) is that they get to move quickly, and it reduces bureaucracy&amp;#x2F;politics, but ... yeah, this isn&amp;#x27;t great.&lt;p&gt;At least diskutil is still there, and is as powerful as ever.</text></comment>
<story><title>If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint</title><url>https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208168</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thought_alarm</author><text>How did Disk Utility.app go from being one of the great built-in OS X utilities to the embarrassing amateurish shit show that it is today?&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the same people responsible for the file system engineering are also responsible for developing this user-facing application.  They might excel at low level system engineering, but they are utterly unqualified to develop a high level GUI application.&lt;p&gt;Spend 5 minutes with the app and you&amp;#x27;ll find a half dozen bugs and amateurish mistakes.  It&amp;#x27;s baffling, and it&amp;#x27;s been a problem for two years now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BRAlNlAC</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t get why they have allowed this crippled GUI for so long. I understand that they want to make it simple for low level users, but that seems like a bad excuse in this case as low level users aren&amp;#x27;t even going to use Disk Utility, just like they aren&amp;#x27;t going to use Automater. It shows a blindness to their market, i think. Anybody who is on my &amp;quot;free IT&amp;quot; list for the last few years has been receiving a Mac when it&amp;#x27;s time to upgrade. The tech support is night and day, and problems are easy to fix thanks to built in, easy to use screen sharing, a robust OS, and well rounded modern hardware. At the same time I&amp;#x27;m not a unix guru, I don&amp;#x27;t know Bash that well and when I&amp;#x27;m forced to use it I spend a lot of time reading. I hate that they keep hiding more and more commands behind Bash precisely because it makes it significantly more difficult to do what I&amp;#x27;ll call &amp;quot;prosumer IT&amp;quot;. One of the things that really sold me on Macs was when Disk Utility managed to repair a USB that was completely bricked on my windows machine. As of MacOS Sierra, I now have use bash to fix corrupted drives as they aren&amp;#x27;t displayed in the GUI. Such a pain and such a step backwards.</text></comment>