Fix encfs under OSX after upgrading to 10.11.2

Posted on Wed 09 December 2015 in HowTo, OSX

After having upgraded OSX to 10.11.2 on my MacBook, I noticed that my encfs volume didn't mount after reboot. I tried to run the script manually and all I got was this error:

dyld: Symbol not found: __ZN5boost7archive17xml_iarchive_implINS0_12xml_iarchiveEE13load_overrideERNS0_15class_name_typeEi
  Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/encfs/1.8.1/lib/libencfs.6.dylib
  Expected in: /usr/local/lib/libboost_serialization-mt.dylib
in /usr/local/Cellar/encfs/1.8.1/lib/libencfs.6.dylib

I quickly found that was a common problem caused by a new version of Boost being installed: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/46254

To fix it, you just need to reinstall encfs using this command

brew reinstall -s encfs

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