FINDER FOR VENTURA CORRUPT?

none of these were ever an issue before Ventura...

It was for me and the USB hub. Also, the spin down was a horrible delay, so I turned it off. The settings are not in the GUI, but they still exist with the underlying pmset command.

I can't replicate your problem, but I have seen things that result in similar behavior.

If you don't want to try to sort out your problem, I won't bother with any other suggestions.

Open system information and look at the USB to see how fast the drives are connected. I’ve seen hubs that will downgrade a USB to if you have any USB to devices plugged in.

I don’t know if it changed in Ventura but you can get to system information by holding down the option key and selecting the Apple menu. It should be the first item in the menu.

Another possibility is if you had it set to not put hard drives to sleep, and somehow that has been turned off, so they do go to sleep, I noticed it seem to take a long time to access and spin up the drives when I turned it off to test. I don’t know if it seemed like a long time because I’ve always kept them spinning and forgot how long it took or if it seems to take longer.

I have the same issue. My Time Machine disk/external drive is a 4Tb G-Drive. I produce books so the back up is important to me every day. All working fine before the Ventura install. Over three days a number of peculiar behaviours, wireless mouse and keyboard will disconnect. A hard reboot gets them back working, but not a restart.

As for the G-drive, connection disappeared. check cables, change ports, check with other USB, all fine. Run Disk Utility, First Aid, takes 12 hours, errors listed include invalid directory count, invalid file count, invalid volume free, eventually when done, mount G-drive, works fine for 5 hours. Then connection gone again. back to Disk Utility,but external drive not listed, get this error message.

"Could not mount “G-DRIVE”. (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930874.)"

anticipate a command in Terminal is needed. would you know of?

If it doesn’t mount, there are no Terminal commands that will change things. Disk Utility just runs the same commands as are available in the shell.

You seem to have many other problems that are possibly related.