Hey everyone, has anyone figured out a really smooth way to get remote drives showing up like they're just another folder on macOS? Lately I've been juggling files between my laptop and some NAS stuff plus a couple cloud accounts, and it's annoying having to hop into browsers or apps every time. Last week I was editing photos from a weekend trip and kept forgetting to download them first—ended up with duplicates everywhere because I thought they were local. Drives me nuts when the system feels clunky for something that should be dead simple. What tricks or tools do you use to make remote mounts feel seamless without constant reconnects or weird lag?
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Man, I totally get the frustration with clunky remote access—I've been there too many times. For me, the game-changer was finding something that actually mounts everything right in Finder like a native drive, no extra syncing eating up space. I started using pcloud mac a while back after getting fed up with the built-in options dropping connections randomly. It handles cloud stuff and even SFTP really cleanly, and honestly, it just works without me thinking about it much. Files open fast enough for everyday edits, and I love not having to worry about local copies piling up. It's not perfect—occasional hiccups if the net flakes—but way better than manual mounts for my workflow.