Webdav For Mac Os

What is ocsmount?

WebDAV is used for sharing files over the Internet regardless of platform (Microsoft ® Windows or Apple ® Mac OS). When put into use with Blackboard Learn, WebDAV is a means for users to access content from the Content Collection as if it were in any other network drive or folder on their personal computer. Most operating systems are WebDAV. Mac OS has built in support for network drives (WebDAV), a technology that has been used for iDisk. Open your Mac Finder. From the Go menu select Connect to Server.

ocsmount is a tool for macOS that can mount WebDAV servers into your local directory hierarchy.Your remote data will appear in the local file system like local files.

Why ocsmount ?

It works as a local optimizing proxy and performs faster than connecting to server via Finder.
It's transparent: You can still use Finder and all other macOS programs to workwith your files.

For ownCloud and Nextcloud

You can use ocsmount also to mount your ownCloud and Nextcloud as a network drive into Finder.

The URL is usually in the form of:

https://YOUR_DOMAIN/SUBDIRECTORY/remote.php/webdav

For all WebDAV Cloud Storage Providers

Download free version
with in-app purchases.

Some servers that work with ocsmount:

MagentaCloud (Telekom.de) (Telekom Mediencenter)
GMX Cloud (gmx.de) (GMX MediaCenter)
Web.de Online-Speicher (web.de)
Strato.de HiDrive Online-Speicher (strato.de)
1&1 Online-Speicher (1und1.de) (1&1 SmartDrive)
1&1 IONOS
Freenetcloud (freenet.de)
Domainfactory LiveDisk (df.eu)
1blu Drive (1blu.de)
Mailbox.org
Kolab Now
WebWeaver School / WebWeaver Enterprise (Server bug when refreshing server side changes!)
Yandex.Disk
Mail.ru
jianguoyun.com (Nutstore) (坚果云)
leiniao365 (雷鸟365)
TeraCLOUD.jp
Microsoft Sharepoint (IIS)
Microsoft Sharepoint.com (Office365)
Microsoft OneDrive (live.com)
Pydio
CloudMe.com
....

For Sharepoint.com (Office365)

Since version 2.2, ocsmount also supports URLs in the form of

https://YOURCOMPANY.sharepoint.com/sites/YOURSITE
https://YOURCOMPANY.sharepoint.com/

For mapping your NAS as OS X network drive

WebDAV-speaking NAS are supported.

Synology (sometimes issues with accents, umlauts etc!)
QNAP
Zyxel
....

As usual, if the NAS is behind a router/firewall, you need to make sure you do port forwarding and dynamic DNSso you can reach it from the outside internet. (if desired)

How does it look like?

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How can I change the local mount directory?

We are working on a way to do this directly from the app.
Meanwhile you can use the Terminal.app to create a symbolic link from the mount directory to any other location on your hard drive, e.g. into your home directory:Use the Copy Path menu entry to get that first path.

Catalina: Why does it download all movies/images/music in the current directory?

Finder in new macOS version insists on creating thumbnails for the Finder icons. This is only a problem for directories with big files on slow connections. This is how you can avoid it:

Keychain Error when saving configuration

You might have switched from the free app to the paid app. Please open the Keychain Access utility on your Mac and search for 'ocsmount' there. Delete the old entry then (from the free app).
Afterwards, saving should be possible.

Privacy Policy

ocsmount only connects to the URL you specify it to connect to. We don't receive or collect receive any data from you.For this website, the Woboq Privacy Policy applies.

ocsmount uses the help of a webservice called AppLanga to support translations. It also uses the help of a webservice called Revenuecat to support in-app purchases. Both services only receive the minimum amount of data needed to fulfill their purpose.

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Misc

Important:This document may not represent best practices for current development. Links to downloads and other resources may no longer be valid.

The following sections discuss the file systems supported by OS X and the impact they can have on application performance.

Supported File Systems

Osx Webdav

OS X supports a variety of file systems and volume formats, including those listed in Table 1. Although the primary volume format is HFS Plus, OS X can also boot from a disk formatted with the UFS file system. Future versions of OS X may be bootable with other volume formats as well.

Webdav Mac Os

**Table 1** File systems supported by OS X
File System	Description
HFS	Mac OS Standard file system. Standard Macintosh file system for older versions of Mac OS.
HFS Plus	Mac OS Extended file system. Standard Macintosh file system for OS X.
UFS	Unix File System. A variant of the BSD “Fast File System.”
WebDAV	Used for directly accessing files on the web. For example, iDisk uses WebDAV for accessing files.
UDF	Universal Disk Format. The standard file system for all forms of DVD media (video, ROM, RAM and RW) and some writable CD formats.
FAT	The MS-DOS file system, with 16- and 32-bit variants.
SMB/CIFS	Used for sharing files with Microsoft Windows SMB file servers.
AFP	AppleTalk Filing Protocol. The primary network file system for all versions of Mac OS.
NFS	Network File System. A commonly-used BSD file sharing standard. OS X supports NFSv2 and NFSv3 over TCP and UDP.
FTP	A file system wrapper for the standard Internet File Transfer Protocol.

Accessing File-System Data

Mac Webdav Client

Every file system stores metadata about the files in the file system. This metadata describes the file but is not part of the file itself. The metadata for a file can include attributes such as Mac OS file type information, BSD-style file access permissions, and creation and modification dates. Because of the differences in how file systems store this data, accessing metadata can be a potentially expensive operation on some file systems.

It’s important to realize that if a piece of data is not immediately present in the file system, that information might have to be calculated. Retrieving file-system information is a time-consuming operation as it is, but if the information must be calculated or read separately from disk, it becomes even more time-consuming. The valence of a directory—the number of items in that directory—is a typical example of information that must be calculated on most file systems.

When calling file-system routines, you should always carefully consider what information you actually need and request only that information. For example, a single call to PBGetCatInfoSync returns Finder file type information from a file or folder. On HFS and HFS Plus file systems, the penalty for retrieving this metadata is minimal because it is stored in the file’s catalog node and read into memory along with the file name. However, on other file systems, this data may have to be read separately, incurring another read operation. Instead of PBGetCatInfoSync, you should have used FSGetCatalogInfo or PBGetCatalogInfoSync and specified exactly which pieces of information you wanted.