Seadrive Client version 2.0.16 give error Failed to initialize: failed to install kernel driver on Mac

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I just update the Seadrive Client on my Mac OS 11.5.2 machine and now am getting the error: Failed to initialize: failed to install kernel driver.

I used to be able to close the window and reopen it and it would work but it’s not opening at all now.

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I just updated macOS and SeaDrive and it seems to be working.

Initially I was running macFUSE 4.0.4 and then updated that to 4.0.12. After setting permissions for the updated extension and rebooting a couple times, as prompted by the OS, SeaDrive mounted and seems to be fine.

Have you checked macFUSE?

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I hadn’t updated MacFUSE and at least on this computer didn’t remember ever installing it. But that seemed to do the trick.

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There’s been problems with seadrive on OSX for sometime now. And if you are using other things that depend on it, it’s really chaos. I have dependency on Cryptomator, and it requires a later version than 4.0.4 – and drive will work with later versions … BUT - randomly this will change, and it will reinstall macfuse without being prompted - and then things will begin to fail. It didn’t work for sometime with Monterey - but then I think 2.0.15 fixed that - but it’s broken tonight; checking I saw this - but then noticed tonight 2.0.16 was released, so trying that.