I have to disagree that the latest version of Navigator2 is fully compatable with OS X Mountain Lion.
When I turn on the nasnavihelper background process to use the auto-power feature, I see that it is running at 100% CPU continuously on my quad-core i7 iMac. This leads to a very hot machine and my cooling fans kicking into jet plane mode, not to mention processor cycles being drawn away from other programs that really need them.
This happens the following setup:
- mid-2010 27" iMac with quad-core i7
- Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2
- LinkStation Pro Duo - model LS-WVL/E
- firmware 1.64
- NAS Navigator2 v2.56
What is really frustrating is that once the nasnavihelper is turned on / installed, it cannot be turned off without removing the duplicate copy of the NAS Navigator2 app from: MacIntoshHD/Library/privileged HelperTools
I find it very strange that to use the auto-power feature with nasnavihelper background process, this duplicate copy of the whole NAS Navigator2 app needs to be installed.
For anyone else wanting to use the auto-power feature of their LinkStation product, I suggest making sure the helper app is not causing unsually high CPU usage on your Mac. You can check this by running Apple's Activity Monitor app, located in MacIntoshHD/Applications/Utilities, as explained in this support page by Apple.
This is my first post on the forums here, and since I don't know if Buffalo tech support checks carefully for bugs people report, I am also going to contact them directly to log a bug report.
Besides this one issue, I noticed no other problems in using the NAS Navigator2 v2.56 software on OS X 10.8.2 so far - other than not having an option to mount shared folders using AFP instead of SMB, which is it's default behaviour.
Keith G.