GridMount is a MacFUSE file system handler for Valve’s GCF and VPK files. It enables you to mount them as drives inside Finder, leveraging the power of Finder for utilities such as Quick Look.
Note: GridMount requires MacFUSE (download link is on the right-hand side)
Features:
- Supports .gcf and .vpk (untested) packages.
- Extract any file or folder from a package, even without Steam
- Supports Finder’s Quick Look
- Built on the solid foundations of HLLib
- Quits when the last package has been unmounted to reduce unnecessary resource usage
24th October, 2010 at 5:48 am
I’d love to use it but it does not seem to work on Leopard. Apparently it needs to be compiled with the right options. Could you try to fix that?
24th October, 2010 at 10:56 am
Unfortunately, there are a couple of APIs I’m using which were only introduced in 10.6, plus Grand Central Dispatch. If you’re using Steam for playing games (as opposed to just chat), I would recommend upgrading to Snow Leopard for the graphics improvements that come with the 10.6.4 SLGU as well as any future graphics updates that come.
3rd November, 2010 at 8:26 pm
I am aware of the improvements in Snow Leopard, and if you’re using these new APIs, then I can understand you unwillingness to port GridMount Back to 10.5 (after all, you’re providing it for free…)
I’ve been postponing the Snow Leo switch for quite a while on this machine, mainly due to owning “old” commercial software which has issues on 10.6.
Oh well, no GridMount for me then for the time being.
Thanks anyway.
6th January, 2011 at 7:53 am
Any chance you might release the source code?
6th January, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Cleaning up the code for an open-source release is on my to-do list.
8th May, 2011 at 6:25 pm
The source code for the latest version is up.
9th May, 2011 at 2:43 am
Awesome. Thanks a lot!
23rd April, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Portal 2 uses a new file system!! “.ncf” It seems like Valve is heading in the same direction as their “.gcf” files, but maybe they’ve simplified it? Or in some way made it better.
Any chance this “new cache file” system will be implemented in GridMount?
24th April, 2011 at 12:28 am
NCFs (No Cache Files) aren’t new. They don’t contain any game content, just index the files the games use. Like Left 4 Dead (2), the VPK files in the game directory are what you’re after.
26th April, 2011 at 10:32 am
I’ve been using GridMount for awhile, but for some reason it can’t open .vpk files for me. They either show up completely blank or are filled with folders and files that are corrupted. Any help would be appreciated.
26th April, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Do you have a specific VPK that isn’t working? From what I can tell, you need to mount the pakXX_dir VPK(s) (e.g. portal2/pak01_dir.vpk); without looking at the actual VPK file structure it seems to me to be a hybrid between GCFs and NCFs.
16th May, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Application does not open in 10.6.7
17th May, 2011 at 9:23 am
More information, please. As annoying as it is to hear this, it works for me.
17th May, 2011 at 7:07 am
It don’t work with me.
When I try to open a file, it open a dialog window (see it here : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1821191/gridmount.tiff). I tried to see what happened in Console and it shox me this : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1821191/console.png
What can I do, please ?
Thanks for your attention.
17th May, 2011 at 9:26 am
“Internal fuse error” is beyond my realm of control. Have you tried reinstalling MacFUSE?
21st May, 2011 at 8:34 pm
I have the same issue. Maybe it’s because of Mac OS 10.7 Lion.
But I already tried reinstalling MacFUSE.
Any ideas?
21st May, 2011 at 10:12 pm
I don’t have Lion so I can’t reproduce or comment.
26th July, 2011 at 5:44 am
When I open it,There’s no Window opening,Only I see the Steam logo in the most top menu bar,at the left side,Left to the Time,What’s wrong?
I have 10.5.8.
26th July, 2011 at 11:18 am
There’s no window to open, it’s a filesystem handler. Just try and open a GCF file and it should show up in Finder like any normal drive.
14th August, 2011 at 10:41 pm
Sorry for taking so long to reply,Just forgotten everytime to talk about it,I did what you’ve said.
But still,Does nothing when I click the .gcf I want to open.
Any other solutions?
15th August, 2011 at 9:43 pm
Is there anything printed to the console (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app) ? What version of OS X are you running, and do you have MacFUSE installed?
15th August, 2011 at 10:15 pm
There’s nothing in the Console once I open the .gcf’s,Like I Mentioned in my First comment,I have 10.5.8 and yes,MacFuse is installed.
2nd September, 2011 at 11:58 am
Just a note for all you Lion users out there. GridMount works, but the state of MacFUSE is, well, not so much. The last update for MacFUSE was in December 2008, which is before Mac OS X Snow Leopard was released. The MacFUSE project is considered to be dead, but there have been efforts to bring MacFUSE-like functionality to Lion. I would recommend OSXFUSE, which can be used as a replacement for MacFUSE.
2nd September, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Moving Gridmount to OSXFUSE is something I’ve wanted to do for a while now, but I haven’t had time to look into it yet. It looks like it has MacFUSE backwards compatibility, does Gridmount work with OSXFUSE out of the box?
25th November, 2011 at 6:33 am
Yes, as long as you enable the “compatibility” tick for things not ported specifically for OSX FUSE.