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I built a free macOS app to mount SFTP, S3, and FTP as real Finder volumes — no macFUSE

DEV Community·Ayon Pal·29 days ago
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TL;DR macsh is a tiny menu-bar app that mounts SFTP, S3-compatible, and FTP/FTPS servers as native macOS volumes. Open them in Finder, drag files in, edit in place. No macFUSE, no kernel extension, no Recovery-mode reboot. Apache-2.0, free. Heads up: macsh is built with Claude Code. I'm the designer, tester, and maintainer; the implementation is AI-written under my direction. Bugs and decisions are mine. Also, I am first time posting to Dev.to. The problem When accessing linux servers I want to treat a remote box like a folder on my Mac. Then I rediscover that the options on macOS are… not great: macFUSE works, but it's a kernel extension. That means a Recovery-mode reboot to allow it, and Apple keeps making this path narrower with each release. Cyberduck / Mountain Duck / Transmit are excellent — and paid or not easy to integrate in finder. Also I find Cyberduck causing heavy battery draining. Finder → Connect to Server speaks SMB, AFP, WebDAV, NFS. No SFTP. No S3.…

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