That is because if you’re using a Mac equipped with Apple silicon, there are a few additional steps required to set up Icedrive. You’ll need to enable kernel extensions in Recovery mode. Although Apple suggests these extensions may reduce system security, rest assured that Icedrive is designed with your safety in mind, and this installation process remains secure.
10. If not prompted, follow the above steps and scroll to the Security section to find the option to allow system software from “Benjamin Fleischer.” (The macFUSE kernel extension developer)
If you prefer not to enable system extensions via Privacy & Security settings or Recovery mode, you can still use Icedrive, but with limited functionality. Specifically, you’ll only be able to use the sync feature.
Thanks for the heads up! though i have been informed by our mount app lead that FuseT is quite an unreliable software emulation of fuse, probably okay for something small but a fully fledged drive would potentially be horrendous, it really would need to be a kernel extension
Could you please clarify what makes Fuse-t unreliable? I have tried searching for issues or reports of unreliability and have found nothing.
I have been using it for some time with Cryptomater and have had no issues. To ask your customers to downgrade their OS security in order to use your software seems unprofessional to me.
In fact, I can’t name one other online storage space vendor with this requirement. I have not seen this from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or any other similar offering I have used and they all offer “mount & sync” software for Apple Silicon Macs just like this one from Icedrive.
Please, please, please reconsider using Fuse-t. It is updated often (as of this writing, the latest release was yesterday), is a drop-in replacement for “macfuse”, offers better performance, and is known to be stable.
Onedrive uses CloufFilesApi and similar on mac which is different to having a mounted drive, and google drive just syncs (You can use Icedrive sync without macfuse too)
I’m just relaying what our main dev has said about FuseT - We can look into it of course and do some tests, The steps required to set up are clearly outrageous, but it could be a case of either have something that works, or doesnt.
With respect to OneDrive, if what they use is different from having a mounted drive, it sure doesn’t impact my experience as an end user. It sure feels like a mounted drive to me. I can copy files to and from it via the Finder, I can edit files directly on OneDrive from my Mac, and I can mark files to always be available offline.
As for Google Drive, I am not sure I agree with the statement that it “just syncs”. My end user experience is exactly the same as what I’ve described for OneDrive above.
I greatly appreciate Icedrive giving fuse-t a try. I sure hope it works and will make the install experience for Apple Silicon Mac users a lot simpler, and arguably provide better security too. Considering there will be less and less Mac users not on Apple Silicon as time goes on and they continue investing in their own chips, I can only assume these will be the majority of your users on the Mac platform.
Win 10+ came with CloudFilesApi which was basically built for onedrive (weve actually built this too, its great but its no longer a “drive” anymore so we disbanded it). Mac also has similar stuff now for iCloud
Google drive is just a folder which syncs in C++
Icedrive on the other hand is a “real” drive, which uses drivers to pull it off, so it its way more embedded than the others and needs a lot more to do
A little update on this, Apple is releasing FSKit, which will negate the need to use FuseT and even macFuse We’re going to look at implementing this very soon
This is great news!! Can’t wait for the next update, and hopefully I’ll finally get to install the desktop sync client soon (have not yet, because of the requirements that I wasn’t comfortable with)
