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May 9, 2007

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MacFusion adds GUI for MacFUSE

Posted May. 9, ’07, 4:17 PM PT by Aaron Freedman
Category | Software

Macfusion Google’s MacFUSE is great. It allows Mac users to take advantage of the open-source FUSE file system by mounting a variety of remote volumes (including FTP, SSH, and more) right into the OS X Finder. Unfortunately, MacFUSE does require you at certain points to use the Terminal and has other not so user-friendly aspects. Luckily, an easy-to-use GUI for MacFUSE has been released.

MacFusion is a free GUI for MacFUSE, which basically adds more ease-of-use to the program. MacFusion consolidates MacFUSE into a single menubar icon, can read/write SSH, SFTP, and FTP volumes, and has support for favorites and auto-mounting.

Right now MacFusion looks sort of premature, but it does have the potential to become an excellent app in the future.

[via Infinite Loop]


2 Comments

Tim said:

Great idea and have been wanting this for some time but it just simply is not working!!!!

I wish it would work but its not, definitly in need of an update!

May 9, 2007 5:48 PM
Graham Perrin said:

We have fixed or explained nearly all known problems, please visit the MacFusion Project http://code.google.com/p/macfusion/
and add your problem to the list of issues. I'll pick it up from there.

Version 1.1 should be public very soon. I'm using the pre-release with great success.

Graham Perrin
MacFusion Project member (non-code contributor)

MacFusion - a GUI for MacFUSE

May 19, 2007 4:47 AM

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