What free method would you recommend for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket on OS X 10.6?

Question

It seems s3fs is broken on Snow Leopard ( http://mark.aufflick.com/blog/2007/10/28/leopard-amazon-s3-network-storage )

Does anyone know of a free (and preferably open source) way to mount a bucket so that it can be used from the Finder?

Answer 1

The underlying issue here is that MacFuse, isn't supported under 10.7 and higher.

(From the Macfuse Website): Please Note: This project is no longer being maintained. We cannot currently help with any lion (or any large feline) related bugs or issues.

Now, they do list a user supported forum, which is also not available...

Your only hope, maybe OSXfuse (http://osxfuse.github.com/ ). They support OS X 10.5 to 10.7, and claim to offer a mode that allows the user of Macfuse written plugins to work with recompiling. But I would suggest you check with your S3 filespace plugin author, and check to see if there is an OSXfuse ready version of it.

But keep in mind, that the *fuse packages, have also shown some oddities with Parallels, and VMWare Fusion, for example.

The technology is neat, but since it's not wide spread sometimes issues occur.

Answer 2

As of now, s3fs builds successfully using macports on 10.7.4

Answer 3

Transmit supports S3:

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