OSXFuse & VeraCrypt on Big Sur: OSXFuse seems to be missing on your machine

OSXFuse and VeraCrypt were both working fine until the MacOS was updated to MacOS 11.0.1 Big Sur. VeraCrypt no longer opens.

After installing macFuse 4.0.2 (latest at time of posting), I tried to run the installer for VeraCrypt 1.24-Update7 but it gives an error

OSXFuse seems to be missing on your machine. VeraCrypt requiures OSXFuse 2.5 or above.

How can we get VeraCrypt to work on MacOS Big Sur?

Solution 1:

This seems to be a general problem, see https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/b7cd930cf7/?limit=25#6cb4 and https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/tickets/400/. A new version of VeraCrypt will be required which references the correct path and addresses any other issues related to Big Sur.

Solution 2:

Upgrading macFUSE fixed this for me https://osxfuse.github.io/2020/11/30/macFUSE-4.0.4.html

Solution 3:

They fixed the issue over the weekend as far as the installation of VeraCrypt but the application still complains about not finding "OSXFuse 2.5 or above" when trying to mount a file.