Setting up pCloud's virtual drive on a MacBook Air

I’m hoping there are some pCloud users out there who have encountered – and solved – my particular issue, which is that, in order to enable pCloud’s virtual drive on the MacBook’s desktop it is necessary to go into, and alter, Security Settings (complicated by the fact that pCloud’s instructions for doing so on the Mac appear to be either out of date or not applicable to my machine’s MacOS version). This is something I am reluctant, as a Mac novice, to attempt without guidance.

I have installed pCloud on the MacBook without any problems, but clicking on the pCloud icon in the dock opens a generic pCloud folder rather than my own folders. I can of course use Safari to access pCloud.com and login, but I would much prefer to access the pCloud folders directly on the desktop, as is the case on RISC OS (using CloudFS) and Windows for that matter.

TIA (hopefully)

Hey George,
I use pCloud on one of my macs, it works fine. Like any filesystems and pseudo-filesystems, it requries access to you disc, hence the pemissions thingy.

When you click on the pcloud icon on the mac iconbar (Dock!) it opens the pCloud window, not the file system window. You should be able to click on Shares or Sync options on the left.

You can use pCloud as a virtually “plugged in” drive too, but you need to allow their kernel extension to be enabled, this is separate permissions from the permissions above. To allow that you need to go to Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll it down till where it says “Security”. There are two boxes below it and you need to look into the 2nd one where it should be saying something like “Some system extensions were blocked” OR, if you have allowed it “Some system extension require restart”

Either allow and then restart, or, if you have allowed it already just restart your mac.

That should do it.

Hi Fabio, thanks for your advice, much appreciated. I enjoyed your article in the latest ARCHIVE magazine as well! Cheers