Unity freezes whenever I try to import anything with sound

Whenever I import any package that has sound files the import process freezes at the audio file. The longest I have waited for a simple "ow" sound before aborting was 20 minutes. I'm on Mac OS Catalina, Unity version 2017.4.28f1 LTS.

 

I've just tried opening a project that was working earlier today after a git pull and I'm getting the exact same issue.
Mac OS Catalina.
Unity Version 2017.3.0f3

 

Any updates on this? I cant drop sounds into the editor ( Version 2018.2.18 ) and I cant even open a project with sounds already imported in git repo by a friend of mine...Catalina issue....

 

@samuelb_unity hey, I fixed the issue by updating the project to the latest Unity version.

The format of the files was .wav or .ogg, file sizes are very small, few kilobytes, they were imported to Unity by drag and drop into Assets/Audio folder! On each import unity would crash and I would have to reboot my macbook in order to re-run unity. Then my friend imported same files from his Windows 10 machine and I pulled the repo, I was . then not able to open the unity project at all, because it would crash on "importing files" once I opened unity

 

@samuelb_unity Hey there, unfortunately I'm experiencing this issue again:

I've downloaded an older version of unity ( 2017.3 ) in order to use "standard asset" package and play around. It won't import, Unity crashes.

Import of the standard asset package worked on the latest Unity version but there were compile errors.

It seems like Catalina only works with the latest Unity version.

 

Thank you @samuelb_unity I'll go and ask there

 

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but for the sake of anyone else Googling this problem, I wanted to post the correct answer here.

The issue is not specific to package manager. The issue is related to older versions of the Unity macOS editor having some 32-bit importer processes (including the audio importer).

You can check out this post for a list of which versions of the Unity macOS editor are compatible with Catalina::https://forum.unity.com/threads/installing-unity-on-macos-catalina.689089/#post-4685435. I will also post the text here:

Note that 2017.3 is not supported at all; if you need to stick with the 2017 editor while running on Catalina, you will need to upgrade the editor to 2017.4.32 or above.

 

Thanks a lot for comment guys but it's not a solution for all of us. I'm using front camera with Vuforia and the latest Unity version supports that (2018.2.9f1) doesn't work anymore.
Anybody know how to add the tools manually back to Catalina?
Or any other solution without changing the Unity version?

 

Were you (or anyone reading this) ever able to overcome the issue with the 2018.2.9f1 version? I am experiencing the same audio import issue and am stuck on the same version unable to upgrade without rewriting the entire project.