This follows the same flow as above with the following change: KEXT Installation on Macs with Apple Silicon/T2 Chip Note : Users will go through this flow again whenever the KEXT is updated. if you are unable to 'Allow' access from System preferences, please follow instructions from 'KEXT Installation on Macs with Apple Silicon/T2 Chip': If the user does not restart, the KEXT will not be functional until they do. Scenario: On opening DFS, 'Drive File Stream requires your approval' popup appearsĢ.Receives a system alert after launch app: 'Drive File Stream requires your approval'ģ.User is directed to System preferences to enable the KEXT.Ĥ.After clicking Allow, user is prompted to restart to enable the KEXT. User flows for KEXT installation (Kernel Extension) System Extension Blocked (Drive File Stream, MacOS: Big Sur)

They are being deprecated and users may experience issues with installing Google Drive File Stream due to KEXT that needs to be resolved by following steps below. KEXT are basically drivers for Mac OS X and higher. This is what Google suggested (as I say, as I don't have the new T2 chip, it doesn't work for me): They offered me a solution, but it doesn't work on my laptop (2015 - I'm waiting for the new Apple chip on a 16' Mac Book Pro). Hope the above steps will work for some of you. Just proceed with step 3 to allow all extensions and thereafter, your MAC will reboot again and hopefully everything works again. Upon reboot, you will be prompted a warning message 'Panic Medic Boot' which you may ignore. The above steps will disable all third party extensions from your MAC which essentially 'reseting' and forcing it to allow the extension approval prompt again. (if your volumes name has been changed previously, just replaced 'Macintosh HD' with the new name)Īpple menu → System Preferences → Security and Privacy → General and allow extension All these problems were resolved with the following simple steps:Ģ) Go to and execute the following command: kmutil trigger-panic-medic -R '/Volumes/Macintosh HD'

Was having multiple problems with the KEXT issues for Google Drive File Stream, Paragon NTFS and Bluestacks.

I found a solution yesterday and it works for me! My Mac is mid 2014 version.

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