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It would be great if there were some user-space support for this in next year's macOS release. I think it would be useful for a lot of cloud storage providers.
by bouke 7y ago
It would be great if there were some user-space support for this in next year's macOS release. I think it would be useful for a lot of cloud storage providers.
- rgovostes 7y agoApple previously added third-party sync integration points into the Finder to stop Dropbox from injecting into that process (when it was easier and Apple was locking it down). It’s likely they do not want to break Dropbox and will try to support whatever it needs.
- pmjordan 7y agoThere is NSFileProviderExtension, but last I heard it was still a very immature API.
- stephenr 7y agoThat is literally what the FileProvider Framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider) allows.