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When will Google drive file stream be available for the new Apple Macbook M1 Silicon? 1 Recommended Answer 120 Replies 986 Upvotes
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Allowed full disk access on my macbook, restarted computer and still unable to access file stream.
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For anyone wondering why File Stream does not work with Rosetta 2 on M1 Macs, it's due to the client's use of a kernel extension. Kernel extensions are legacy system extensions that allow applications to hook into the system to perform tasks they otherwise wouldn't be able to.
Because kernel extensions (kexts) work at a lower level than most other applications, they are not compatible with Rosetta 2. Apps with kernel extensions must be rewritten/recompiled to work on Apple Silicon Macs, which is much more difficult than porting a user-level app like Chrome.
Also, since Apple is deprecating kernel extensions due to security concerns, they've made it harder to use them on M1 Macs. Users actually need to boot into recovery mode on their machines and downgrade their security settings in order to allow 3rd party kernel extensions to run at all, which is far more hostile than how they work today on Intel Macs. File Stream would either need to instruct their users on how to perform this task manually or come up with an entirely new implementation that doesn't rely on kernel extensions - and without an official API from Apple, this is not a simple problem to solve and would involve a complete rewrite of the app from scratch. Hopefully, Apple will one day provide an official sanctioned method for file providers to do this kind of work on macOS like they already do on iOS / iPadOS.
tl;dr - Rosetta 2 won't work with apps like Google Drive File Stream by design. It involves a lot more work to get running on M1 Macs than most other apps, both from Google's developers and from users.
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we don't know you have to keep check the update blog or the drive stream download page
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Would be nice if Google had worked on this like others, the only thing that does not currently work on an M1 mac we are testing for all our corporate apps is google filestream (and backup and sync by google), not one other application issue with dozens of apps.
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Do you know when the version for macbook M1 will be available? It's very complicated in our company, we work exclusively with google drive file stream! Please ! Thank you
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Looks like they aren't going to fix the issue until April!
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