Symlink and extend attribute unsupported on macOS?

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I am using Rclone(rclone mount) on macOS, I am so confused with the two following questions:

  1. Is the extended attributed still no supported yet in the latest version?
    If so, how can I solve this problem? I tried using "cp -X" which works on macOS 12/13, but not working on macOS 14(sonoma.), the com.apple.quarantine extended attribute can't be removed at all. I consider it perhaps a new
    macOS security feature

    It is quite annoying when copy files from local filesystem to the disk(mounted by rclone). I have to remove the extend attributes first and then copy(I have to deal with the root permission files located at ~/Desktop or ~/Downloads or ~/Documents which is totally a disaster to me.).

  2. Is the symlink still no supported yet in the latest version?
    I find https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/2975. it seems symlink is still not supported now.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone version: v1.58.0

  • os/version: darwin 14.0 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 23.0.0 (x86_64)
  • os/type: darwin
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.21.1
  • go/linking: dynamic
  • go/tags: cmount

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

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The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

  1. rclone mount XXX
  2. cp src_path dst_path[rclone] : Error: fcopyfile failed: Operation not permitted
  3. ln -s a.txt dst_path[rclone] : ln: dst_path[rclone]: Function not implemented
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welcome to the forum,

that is an old version of rclone
can update using rclone selfupdate and test again.

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Could you confirm these problems are fixed?

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Neither links nor extended attributes are supported.

but cp -X should work.

Install the latest rclone version (nobody will investigate years old version issues) and try cp -X again.

If it does not work provide all details including mount debug log - it should shed some light on what is going on.

In general I avoid mount on macOS as neither macfuse nor fuse-t are trouble free (with characters encoding being the biggest problem for me) and use rclone cmd directly.

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