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Running Google Drive File Stream on macOS 11 Big Sur (Intel)
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Open Terminal.app and paste the following line. It will ask you for a password, which enter.

curl -L https://gist.github.com/knu/10c48cf61d2238269b453494b2dece80/raw/GoogleDriveFileStream.sh | sh

You can save the script for repeated use.

curl -LO https://gist.github.com/knu/10c48cf61d2238269b453494b2dece80/raw/GoogleDriveFileStream.sh
chmod +x GoogleDriveFileStream.sh

./GoogleDriveFileStream.sh
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#!/bin/sh
set -ex
sudo rsync -av /Applications/Google\ Drive\ File\ Stream.app/Contents/MacOS/dfsfuse.kext /Library/Extensions/
sudo kextload /Library/Extensions/dfsfuse.kext
killall Google\ Drive\ File\ Stream || :
while pgrep -q Google\ Drive\ File\ Stream; do
sleep 1
done
open /Applications/Google\ Drive\ File\ Stream.app
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