Help. can't see the vfs feature on Mac sonoma desktop client

[Mary_Ane]

Hello,
my mac is a macbok pro Sonoma 14.5 Apple M2 Pro if it is relevant.
standard desktop client version : 3.13.2

I recently saw that the VFS desktop client for mac is available.
i downloaded the installer, after the installation i opened the app but nothing changed, i don’t see anything related to virtual files or freeing up space.
i tried to do a clean installation, as i thought maybe installing vfs on top of the standard client caused an issue. so i uninstalled it ( quit and moved the app to Trash", and installed the vfs client… it wouldn’t launch.
is there soemthing i am missing ?

[tflidd]

If you open the settings where you see the synced devices, in the 3 dots menu you should see a few options:

In the context menu of each file/folder you should have an option to make the file available offline and also to free up space.
Unfortunately, I have no macOS system at hand to check this.

In previous version, there was an option to be enabled for the beta features, but I didn’t find that for current versions. So I suppose it is enabled by default.

It might be worth checking the bug tracker: https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues
If there are major issues, there should be already some report, especially if a feature is relatively new on a system.

[tflidd]

Finally - I have Nextcloud working

I did look around a bit, there seems to be a specific version to download: If you go to the 3.13.2 version on assets, you can download the Nextcloud-3.13.2-macOS-vfs.pkg I don’t know if this file is different from the file over the download links from the Nextcloud homepage. It seems the VFS feature was planned to become official but there still have been a few issues so it wasn’t rolled out so far. A bit of background about rolling out the feature, check the details yourself and if it make…

It wasn’t completely rolled out yet.