S3Drive - Missing opt/cygfuse folder from WinFSP installation

Hi, I'm trying to map a windows drive to an AWS S3 bucket. When I select 'start mount' in S3drive, a message appears at the bottom that I need to install WinFSP with the FUSE for Cygwin option enabled. However, when I try to follow the instructions to do that from the WinFSP documentation, I can see that the opt/cygfuse directory is missing from my WinFSP installation, despite reinstalling multiple times. Can you please help?

Hi, That's interesting. I assume you've tried to uninstall it completely before installing again with: "FUSE for Cygwin" enabled as displayed here? https://winfsp.dev/rel/install.png It's hard to tell why Cygwin doesn't get installed. You could try installing it manually. I've used msiextract winfsp-2.0.23075.msi command to extract WinFSP files and uploading here (inside winfsp.zip. You could try just for the sake of testing to copy the opt folder into your FUSE installation path, so you end up with C:\Program Files (x86)\WinFsp\opt. I haven't tried whether this would work, but it's worth trying. Feel free to use the attached files or extract the .msi if you don't feel like installing some files from the "internet". I would be keen to know if this resolved your issue. (edited)

winfsp.zip

1.19 MB

winfsp-2.0.23075.msi

2.11 MB

For what it's worth I just installed WinFsp yesterday with the cygwin option enabled and mounting worked for me.

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Tom

Hi, That's interesting. I assume you've tried to uninstall it completely before installing again with: "FUSE for Cygwin" enabled as displayed here? https://winfsp.dev/rel/install.png It's hard to tell why Cygwin doesn't get installed. You could try installing it manually. I've used msiextract winfsp-2.0.23075.msi command to extract WinFSP files and uploading here (inside winfsp.zip. You could try just for the sake of testing to copy the opt folder into your FUSE installation path, so you end up with C:\Program Files (x86)\WinFsp\opt. I haven't tried whether this would work, but it's worth trying. Feel free to use the attached files or extract the .msi if you don't feel like installing some files from the "internet". I would be keen to know if this resolved your issue. (edited)

Thanks for the detailed response, @Tom! I tried your suggestion of opening the zip file you sent and copying the opt/cygfuse folder into my installation. I then went to Cygwin and ran the 'sh ./install.sh ' command then went straight back into S3Drive and lo and behold... this time the 'Start Mount' worked and I now have a fully functional mapped drive to my AWS S3 bucket. THANK YOU! (edited)

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povey

For what it's worth I just installed WinFsp yesterday with the cygwin option enabled and mounting worked for me.

Thanks @povey . Did you install WinFSP 2023 or an earlier version?

Streve

Thanks @povey . Did you install WinFSP 2023 or an earlier version?

Whatever the latest download from their site was

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