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MacFusion: a GUI for MacFUSE
We mentioned MacFUSE many times here on TUAW. It's a very cool utility (from Amit Singh at Google) which brings the Linux FUSE project to the Mac for easily expanding file system support (for more background on Singh and MacFUSE check out this interview at IT Conversation). Unfortunately, however, MacFUSE is a rather geeky project that requires some command line chops to get things going. That's where MacFusion comes in, as a GUI front-end for MacFUSE that puts easy access to MacFUSE network mounts in your menubar. It's still early in development but it will already "show a Secure Shell or Secure FTP share from another computer on your macs desktop, letting you manipulate the files on it as if they were on your own computer. MacFusion can also do the same for any File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server, giving read/write FTP in the finder for the first time!"Of course you'll need to install MacFUSE first, then download MacFusion and install it as a normal application. MacFusion is free and open source.
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artifex said 8:09PM on 5-14-2007
I've been using an earlier release since last week, and it's really cool.
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Mike Eggleston said 8:34PM on 5-14-2007
I have been using MacFUSE/MacFusion now for quite some time. It is a really good application, and they have brought the whole install process for MacFUSE into a nice installer (whereas before it was a very geeky and cumbersome install).
I would definitely recommend this project, even in its early development cycle.
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Greg Perkins said 10:11PM on 5-14-2007
This looks pretty cool, so, after installing MacFusion I'll be able to access the attachments in my gmail account as though it were a drive?
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sergio.delagarza said 10:23PM on 5-14-2007
This is the one i've waiting for.
tnx tuaw for the news
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artifex said 11:41PM on 5-14-2007
I've only used the macfusion gui for sshfs. I dunno if it works with GMail.
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Graham Perrin said 12:10PM on 5-15-2007
Re GmailFS as a plug-in to MacFusion please see
http://code.google.com/p/macfusion/wiki/FileSystemsToImplement
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