When I logged into the new os, everything was broken, due to – as per my understanding – the problem in the disk access.

First tools that I used were Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) tools along with the OneDrive. Those seem to all take 15+ minutes to open documents I typically use.

Since those failed, I checked non Microsoft software as well, like the preview app for reaching pdfs, etc.

I suspected from the launch services database, and the fixes that I found for it did not resolve the issue either.

At this point of time, there is no method to “downgrade” back to Ventura for me either. I don’t have a backup.

Symptoms:

• When double click a document file some take 15+ minutes to open, both for Microsoft Office apps and other apps like preview
• The file selection window either does not open or can not go to some but not all my directories
• The same applies when the OneDrive is uninstalled and reinstalled
• If I try to open a document from the Spotlight Search, even though it finds the document from the letters that I type in a fair time, again it takes forever to open the file with the associated app.
• Interestingly following test through cli works in some folders and does not work in others. The ones it is not working – maybe conincidently – are the ones that OneDrive was tracking. (Though OneDrive app is not active now.)

mkdir real-path
cd real-path
echo "This is a test file" > real-path-test-file.txt
more real-path-test-file.txt
open -a TextEdit real-path-test-file.txt


cd ..
ln -s real-path link-path
cd link-path
ls -ltr real-path-test-file.txt
more real-path-test-file.txt
open -a TextEdit real-path-test-file.txt

So any bit of information is highly appreciated, since this is blocking my business.