Do I need Fuse?

As above; please tell me if I would understand your answer - and if not, do I need it?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Apr 18, 2023 10:50 AM

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Posted on Apr 18, 2023 1:59 PM

FUSE is a way of being able to access some file systems that are not natively supported by macOS. FUSE does this using only a user's regular permissions instead of needing to install software into the lower levels of macOS. It is hard to say how this got there, but at some time in the past someone using your computer installed some third party software which included a FUSE component.


You can run EtreCheck to see whether those FUSE components are associated with any specific developer or other third party app in order to glean what may have installed it. I believe I've seen FUSE components in some EtreCheck reports I've reviewed. Feel free to post the complete report here.



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