How to Mount Cloud Storage as a Local Drive on Mac?

Google Drive, One Drive, and Dropbox all can be installed in Finder. iCloud is in Finder by default.

poulpampadu wrote:

I’ve been using multiple cloud storage services (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.) and it’s becoming a pain to manage all my files separately. I’ve heard you can mount cloud storage as a local drive, so it shows up in Finder or File Explorer just like an external hard drive. Has anyone tried this? What’s the best tool or method for doing this seamlessly?

How you do that depends on the cloud storage. Google has an application, DropBox has an application. I'm assuming OneDrive does too, though I don't use it. The Google Drive application, which I use to access my work documents, works very well.

You can mount cloud storage as a local drive using a tool like CloudMounter. It lets you connect to cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and even FTP/SFTP servers, and they show up in Finder or File Explorer as if they were regular external drives. Once set up, you can access your cloud files without downloading them, saving space on your local drive. One more option is ExpanDrive, same feature set.

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cooper_oliviya wrote:

You can mount cloud storage as a local drive using a tool like CloudMounter. It lets you connect to cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and even FTP/SFTP servers, and they show up in Finder or File Explorer as if they were regular external drives. Once set up, you can access your cloud files without downloading them, saving space on your local drive. One more option is ExpanDrive, same feature set.

Why do you need any tool at all? iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive (and box.com) natively mount in both Mac Finder and Windows Explorer (with iCloud for Windows). Are you perhaps trying to sell unneeded tools?

cooper_oliviya wrote:

You can mount cloud storage as a local drive using a tool like CloudMounter. It lets you connect to cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and even FTP/SFTP servers, and they show up in Finder or File Explorer as if they were regular external drives. Once set up, you can access your cloud files without downloading them, saving space on your local drive. One more option is ExpanDrive, same feature set.

I agree with Lawrence. Why would you need to buy tools when you can do the same thing for free? What benefit do these tools give you?

Hi,

I think you should gather your cloud storages to one iCloud which you could use it as like local drive.

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