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Box Drive for Mac Still Not Working Properly With macOS Big Sur and M1 Macs
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Box Sync which is an older product works but you get a loop until you approve the system extension.
I can personally confirm. But also check out this link. Specifically the Nov 25th update under the "Install or deploy Drive File Stream" heading.
That makes me feel better about Box, as they're not the only ones, and worse about Google. I don't understand the issue when they had development machines for months prior to release.
Wait, is this wrong? https://www.techtimes.com/articles/...pple-m1-mac-support-now-live-thats-expect.htm
Gooogle Drive is not going to be Big Sur compatible and certainly not working on M1 until late April. This is an enterprise app.
I have the 50GB free (grandfathered) version and the file size upload limit is 250mb. lol Makes it very limited what I can upload. I used the webpage interface last night and it worked fine.
That's even worse than, because it signifies the culture at Box is completely reactionary and not forward thinking at all.
Google Drive is Big Sur compatible, I've been using it since Big Sur launched...and in beta.
Ok. Maybe it's because you have a smaller OneDrive? IDK. I love it on windows, so I can't say it's bad.
Works fine for me, even though it's not M1 native yet.
Mine shows version 20.169.0823.0008.
Ironically, my coworker who’s on Windows hates it and wants us to go back to Seafile.
Let's re-word that as google have confused things, I'm talking Google Drive File Stream. They're still using kexts, they have had two years since the announcment of Catalina at WWDC 2019 to migrate to system extensions. They've absolutely failed, as a macadmin using MDM to control kexts and system extensions is impossible in Big Sur. Fix coming in version 47, in late April.
Got it. As a Super Admin for a small office everything for me with Google DFS (now Google Drive) is hunky dory. I did see some articles about a fix in late April.
Thanks!
I would have chosen iCloud if it wasn't for the fact I needed to be a little OS agnostic, so I had to stick with Dropbox.
These are all the reasons why I moved my business to iCloud. Because I know it will always work. If you rely on a Mac or iOS for you primary devices, there is zero reason why you shouldn't be on iCloud unless your company uses something else. And then it's their problem if it doesn't work in my opinion. Microsoft claims support for OneDrive for M1 now months ago but it never arrived alongside the Office updates. Google can't figure out a name or logo. Box is far behind. Dropbox has zero issues though and is usually always on the ball. If I wasn't fully into the Apple ecosystem, I would be with Dropbox or OneDrive. I use OneDrive for when clients of mine don't have access to iCloud and I think OneDrive for Business works better than personal OneDrive. But iCloud will always be my go-to because of these problems...
Because Box Drive depends on MacFuse which is incompatible with the M1 platform. Google Drive File Stream uses the same underlying technology and it is broken as well.
I would absolutely not run business services using Apple’s iCloud. It’s not designed for it and will fail you at some point.
Sure, buy a new machine. OOPS, it is an M1 because Apple doesn’t make MacBook Airs with Intel anymore. Developers had access to machines for over half a year and got caught by surprise?
This is why we are migrating clients from Box back to Sharepoint.
I wonder how long it’s going to take for Apple to have a development platform that one can create an app and have it last for an extremely long time. Even some iOS apps become incompatible eventually. It would be better for developers if they didn’t have to rewrite their apps over time. With Apple silicon they have a chance to do that or to have it become worse due to forced obsolescence every third or fourth OS upgrade. It stinks giving up tools you liked every few years when Windows is able to keep them going.