OSXFuse

Hi all, I was installing a drive client for a cloud storage I use and it says it needs to install OSXFuse. Is this something I should be OK doing, or is it something that is going to give me more grief than it is worth? I am sure the file is OK to install, it comes from one of the major Cloud Storage sites, but if it is going to sum up other parts of My OS X, it might be better to just keep using the Web front-end for their cloud service.

Thanks for any help, I’m a bit more challenged on the mac than I am on Windows.

OSXFuse is a bit of an hack but it does work to read other file systems (like iOS). It is renamed to FUSE nowadays.
That said, I had some bad experience installing it and having issues with volumes that got corrupted/unreadable afterwards so I never used it again.

Thanks Christoph, that’s all I need to know. I really don’t need the Finder integration for this Cloud storage, so I’ll just use the web interface. I’m not going to install it, who needs the headaches.

Strange,

No. Problems here. (With OSXFuse or FUSE for OSX).
The Tuxera NTFS Driver for Mac uses and needs OSXFuse (or FUSE for OSX) to work.

Excuse my ignorance on the subject: I see Fuse in System Preferences, yet I never manually installed it.
How did it go there?
Should I keep it?
Thanks for any advice.

Hello,

Do you have or use other Filesystem Drivers? (Eample: NTFS-3G for Mac, Tuxera NTFS for Mac, Tuxera ExtFS for Mac, or ZFS for Mac, etc.) - To Read (and Write) other Filesystems (NTFS, Ext2/3/4, ZFS, etc.)?

These Drivers use all the FUSE backend (Filesystem in Userspace) . And when you Install these Filesystem-Drivers, FUSE get’s installed automatically.

You can keep it.

My backup disk is a Transcend StoreJet for Windows (the Mac version was not available). So, as you said, I guess I can keep FUSE.
Thank you.

I use Paragon NTFS for Mac, and likewise, it needs MacFuse to access Windows 10 disks.

At least now I know where I stand. Thanks.