Help needed for a first install on a Mac

[Filou]

Hi.

Yesterday, I tried CloudMonter on my Mac,
when I discovered Rcloan on AlternativeTo.net.

I would install rClone on my system but I'dont understand the differences between the possibilities described on the site:

• Script installation
  sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

• installation with Brew

• installation with Curl

• installation with a web browser

• installation with Docker

• installation from source ...

I tried the first one (with the script)
and obtained the message:
rclone v1.59.1 has successfully installed.

Do I have to do anything else to finalize the installation before I can configure a drive?
It's not clear for me

(I also installed the GUI with Firefox (91.12.0esr))

Thanks in advance

PS: I'm working on a MacBook Air 2019, with Monterey 12 5 1)

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

hello and welcome to the forum,

the only way to get the official rclone is the script installation and/or from rclone.org

note: rclone is a portable app, does not need to be installed.
can just copy the executable to your machine, chmod +x and good to go.
the config file is also portable, can copy it to any machine.

[Ole (Ole Frost)]

@Filou

rclone v1.59.1 has successfully installed.

Do I have to do anything else to finalize the installation before I can configure a drive?
It's not clear for me

It think it is ready to go - the installation script seems to perform the chmod +x mentioned by @asdffdsa

I use Windows and never tried on a Mac, so first verify the installation with

rclone version

if successful then you can configure your remote with either

rclone config

or using

rclone rcd --rc-web-gui

and then check that it shows your top level folders correctly:

rclone lsd yourRemoteName:

The commands are documented here:
https://rclone.org/commands/

@asdffdsa feel free to take over, you are the mount expert

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

@Filou

Do I have to do anything else to finalize the installation before I can configure a drive?
It's not clear for me

which cloud provider are you using, gdrive, aws, dropbox or what?
need create a rclone remote for that cloud provider using
rclone config

[Filou]

@asdffdsa asdffdsa
I'm testing Box.

Within Firefox, it works.

With Rclone, I used the config from Box
and I can now see directories and files within Box.

But now, I want to mount Box to see it in the Mac's Finder
I typed:

MBA:~ dpp$ rclone mount remote: remote

and I got an error

kext load failed: -603947007
mount_osxfuse: the file system is not available (255)
2022/08/23 16:42:31 ERROR : box root '': Mount failed
2022/08/23 16:42:31 Fatal error: failed to mount FUSE fs: mount stopped before calling Init: mount failed

I verified the system preferences.
Fuse is there (version 3 10 4). Maybe insufficent ?

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

try rclone mount remote: /path/to/mountpoint --allow-other
--- change remote: to the name of the your remote.
--- change /path/to/mountpoint to a dir on your machine
" On Linux/macOS/FreeBSD start the mount like this, where /path/to/local/mount is an empty existing directory:"

[Filou]

oops, sorry. My previous message was not correct...

[Filou]

@asdffdsa

rclone mount remote:

I updated Fuse
and then I used your mount command and it seems ok !
Thanks a lot for your help.
I will now test it more deeply