 | Aug 17 2009 |
KEVIN SHEA I don't know how I got along without it. Superb product!
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| Aug 17 2009 |
SHELDONLENDRUM Fantastic App ! I use it every day for multiple servers.
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| Aug 17 2009 |
BED42 Absolutely exactly what I was looking for, quick connection UI and seemlessly integrated into Finder (or as I use, Path Finder). Version 2.04 is working fantastically for me with Snow Leopard - exactly what it claims to be.
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| Aug 13 2009 |
HINES2KJ Too slow to do anything. However, for it to be fast and to have that "on the fly" feeling, have a FiOs connection going.
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 | Aug 8 2009 |
MACLOVER1.1 How different is this from Macfusion since both are based on Google Macfuse ?
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| Jul 8 2009 |
APPLEHC Trust me on this one: I had so many problems using the (registered) version 1 of Expandrive that I deleted it. Now they want me to pay for bug-fixing the first version? Well, I still tried the v 2 - guess what? Lots of problems. Some big bugs were removed with v 2.02. But honestly: For serious users this is a no-go!
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| May 5 2009 |
FRODO_LIFE using latest version of PathFinder 5.1.1 and have devices are turned on in the side bar as i see all my other shared volumes when mounted.
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| May 5 2009 |
RAMINF I have gone through four different FTP clients (not counting the ones built into DreamWeaver and Espresso). But for copying files quickly to my server, I always go back to using ExpanDrive. Having the server be an extension of the filesystem makes it so you don't have to think about all the extra steps needed to move files back and forth. Being able to directly edit my server config files in TextEdit or add a line to a remote CSS file using CSSEdit is beyond awesome. Haven't had any problems across any of the different hosting sites I use. Heartily recommended.
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| May 5 2009 |
FITZAGE Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Having the ability to access my servers directly from the Finder has saved me a lot of time. I combined this with Changes.app (for synching changed files) and TextMate and kicked Coda and Espresso to the curb. The only problems I've had so far with version 2 were the fault of the server not properly supporting the FTP spec for a client of mine who uses shitty web hosting.
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| May 5 2009 |
BANCHALI I've used ExpanDrive since it came out, and it's the most useful paid utility I have. I manage files on several different computers and some supercomputers, and being able to mount everything as a drive is incredibly useful. I keep my iTunes library outside my laptop, but I can easily mount it with ExpanDrive and play my music anywhere with just a decent connection, which is wicked cool. MacFusion is okay, but as I use this on a laptop and move between networks a few times a day, MacFusion did not gracefully handle loss of connections while ExpanDrive has no problem. Over MacFusion, ExpanDrive also has a super slick interface and very nice AppleScript support which I use for making simple one line location commands for mounting a set of drives at a time. If you frequently work with remote files, I have seen nothing better - it even has better reliability and behavior (if not throughput) of NFS on local connections. A mac without Quicksilver, TextMate, and ExpanDrive is not really a mac, as far as I'm concerned.
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| May 5 2009 |
MZCH I have been using ExpanDrive since 1.3.4. I have some FTP accounts and amazon S3 account. In every account ExpanDrive absolutely works without any troubles. I am also a PathFinder user and I can access remote volumes mounted by ExpanDrive as well as internal volumes with PathFinder. Of course, It's not say that I have never had a bit trouble, but the trouble caused by a certain third party device driver and ExpanDrive had nothing to do with it. I'm sure ExpanDrive is worth the price or more.
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| May 5 2009 |
DONPERREAULT I have been using ExpanDrive mostly to access a remote server and absolutely love it. With the new version 2 you now have access to Amazon S3 accounts. I now use it to access my S3 account and absolutely love the convenience. I rarely have to open an FTP application anymore. Once you log into a remote server via ExpanDrive you have full access to that server just as it where an external HD attatched to your computer. You can just drag & drop files from the Finder to the server sitting on your desktop and in Finder window sidebar. Also, all the servers you are connected to show up in the standard Mac Open/Save dialog windows from within any application. ExpanDrive 2 is a great application that just got a whole lot better. I love it!
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| May 3 2009 |
FRODO_LIFE does not seem to work, especially with PathFinder. Installed software and created FTP log in but when I double click on it the drive is not mounted in finder however it's mounted in PathFinder but PF comes up with error message There is no application available to open the document "directory" so unfortunately pretty useless pity as I like the idea
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 | May 5 2009 |
HEMANCUSO Sorry about the trouble. What version of path finder are you using?
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| May 5 2009 |
DONPERREAULT Maybe you have devices turned off in the sidebar preferences.
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| May 5 2009 |
FRODO_LIFE using latest version of PathFinder 5.1.1 and have devices are turned on in the side bar as i see all my other shared volumes when mounted.
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| Apr 23 2009 |
ROY VAN DER WONING I found this utility useful enough to purchase a license through MacZot, but less than 6 months later, the developer launches a new release and sets the grace period such that droves of new customers that were reeled in through MacZot are not eligible for a free upgrade and now have to plunk down the same 20 bucks they paid for the original license. Not quite as sneaky as the YazSoft debacle, but it does bear a canning resemblance. As icing on the cake, the blog article announcing the new release has been closed for comments after the developer was called on these business tactics and questioned on whether or not the new features warrant a major upgrade to begin with. Apparently, the developer does not appreciate the expression of legitimate customer concerns on their website.
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| Apr 23 2009 |
SIMON17 I acquired it through MacZOT as well, the $20 upgrade fee is not targeted at MacZOT buyers, it applies to everyone who purchased it more that sixty days ago. Buying it new is $40. Not sure if the upgrade is worth it to me personally but I have no complaints with the developers' ethics.
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| Apr 24 2009 |
TOMECK I am in the same boat too and I agree with Roy that the grace period is quite short. I don't complain about upgrade fees because I am willing to pay for major upgrades. However, it is annoying that they are haven't offered a (smaller) upgrade with actually working FTP/FTPS - this has never worked for me properly and they haven't fixed the problem after my report. What I mean is FTP/FTPS was already implemented and it can't be that I have to pay for "many enhancements to FTP/FTPS" and that it "is no longer in beta" now.
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| Apr 24 2009 |
SIMON17 Those are good points and I don't dispute any of that, I just don't feel that it's sneaky, nor is it true that they targeted MacZOT customers, who even if they upgraded ($20 +$20) would still come out ahead of other customers who bought at the same time ($40 + $20). It works fine for mewith SFTPas is.
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| Apr 24 2009 |
ROY VAN DER WONING For the record, I never said or suggested that the developer "targeted" MacZot customers. People who buy licenses through MacZot (and hence, not directly from the developer) likely feel that the reduced price is more realistic for what is being offered than the regular list price. Hence, the statement that they come out ahead doesn't hold water IMO, because many MacZot customers would likely not have purchased a license to begin with, if it hadn't been for that reduced price. I for one find $40 too steep for what's essentially a one-trick pony (albeit a very nifty and useful one). Add this to the fact that a (questionably) major release is launched 6 months after the MacZot campaign (similar tactics have been heavily frowned upon in the past, and for good reasons), that the developer (by their own admission) did not finalize their FTP/SFTP implementation in the previous release and that they closed their blog article for comments after having their decision questioned (other articles still accept user feedback) and this thing just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And I'll let those be my final 2 pesos on the matter.
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| Apr 26 2009 |
I understand where you're coming from. I don't think the business tactics, if that's what you must call them, are questionable. This upgrade was a huge undertaking - it was a full rewrite of all core features plus a new filesystem, a new GUI - will also include many other new features and filesystems throughout the 2.x line. We don't have the luxury of giving it away. We work extremely hard to provide a good product and great support. If you don't think an upgrade is justified, then you don't have to. Perhaps wait a couple months for more features. We're not turning off support for our 1.x line - it was just time to rev our core and keep going. Also, FWIW, we'll be releasing an update to the 1.x line this week that incorporates all the updates to the FTP/FTPS layer.
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| Aug 8 2009 |
TOMECK I haven't noticed a FTP/FTPS layer update for v.1 till today. If I use the build-in update checker I only get an offer for v.2. Have I missed something? In addition, I still can't get to work ExpanDrive 2.0.3 with my FTP server.
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| Apr 22 2009 |
DONPERREAULT I have been using Expandrive for almost a year and rely on it daily. I log into my ftp accounts without having to open a specific application like, Transmit, Flow or Forklift. ExpanDrive 2.0 brings with it Amazon S3 support, thrilling. ExpanDrive is so simple to use. Each account appears to be just another hard drive on your desktop, you drag & drop files just like you do when moving files via the finder. I uploaded a 3MB file in less than 30 seconds with my 30 Mbps Comcast connection. I did notice that with the larger files ExpanDrive hogs all the power from the cpu and you can't work with the Finder until the upload/download is complete. So, unfortunately with large files over 100MB I recommend using Transmit or another FTP application.
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| Apr 17 2009 |
BGARLOCK Just wish that ExpanDrive and NTFS-3G could agree on a version of MacFUSE, and peacefully coexist.
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| Feb 2 2009 |
HINES2KJ Want to know my favorite things about Expandrive? - It crashes the Finder, big time, EVERY time... - People give it 4 stars for some reason... - and the developer wants money for it... Gotta love $#itware
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| Feb 9 2009 |
EXPANDRIVE We're real sorry you were having trouble with ExpanDrive - can you please email us [support@expandrive.com] and I'd be happy to work out what is going wrong. I assure you we'll do everything we can to debug the issue swiftly. Most of our users see nothing of this sort - in fact, you're the first to report any problem like this!
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| Dec 3 2008 |
RICHCASTILLO I have exactly he same problem as the previous commenter. Keeps asking me to upgrade MacFuse and says it was successful and then wants to update it again as soon as I try to make a connection. Trashed the demo!
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| Feb 9 2009 |
EXPANDRIVE As of version 1.3.4 and newer this should be fixed. Occasionally in the version your reviewed there were some permissions problems installing MacFUSE - which have since been resolved
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| Aug 28 2008 |
M-RICK hy the hell this software always wants to upgrade macfuse while i have the latest version !!! Plus, if i accept, it will ask again at next launch : trashed directly.
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| Jun 26 2008 |
GCOGHILL I'm surprised plain ol' FTP support isn't in there.
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| Jul 16 2008 |
http://stevenf.com/archive/dont-use-ftp.php
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| Jul 16 2008 |
GCOGHILL Interesting, but my hosting service doesn't support SFTP. Here's a reply in the host's forum about SFTP: "The major reason sFTP is not provided here is that it is almost impossible to secure the server when you enable sFTP via cPanel. It forces auto allowing jailed shell on shared accounts, which is a security risk. webDAV is also insecure. It might be ironic that to have secure FTP you need to risk making the server less secure at the same time, but that's just what happens. The permissions settings to secure the account to have sFTP and not allow the jailed shell open security holes that most shared hosts without jailed shell just aren't going to allow (we aren't anyway). We've revisited the idea over and over and looked into any new methodoligies, and each time we have, it has presented itself as insecure under the cPanel environment." http://www.lunarforums.com/lunarpages_webhosting_help/anything_new_with_sftp-t37971.0.html;msg282276#msg282276
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| Jul 16 2008 |
HEMANCUSO We're going to be adding it in as of version 1.4 or version 1.5, expect it in 5-6 weeks.
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| Feb 9 2009 |
EXPANDRIVE Plain FTP/FTPS support is in as of version 1.3
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| Feb 10 2009 |
GCOGHILL Cool, will have to demo again. I'd like to do some offsite backups on my host space, I have tons of room on there.
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 | May 21 2008 |
KORIM It seems that all drives created by ExpanDrive are not showing up into ForkLift. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24467/forklift Please let me know if it works for you or not. I am not sure on which side it has to be fixed (ForkLift or ExpanDrive), so I am posting this issue also there. On Mac OS X 10.5.2, ExpanDrive 1.2.1, ForkLift 1.5.2
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| May 7 2008 |
WEB-JIVE This is a nice add-on to any sysadmins arsenal. What I have found though is it's not useful for remote file ownership management because when you CMD-I to set ownership, Finder and Pathfinder pulls the local systems owner and group information. Other than that, it's great to be able to manage files via finder on a remote SFTP system. Just keep the SSH terminal ready to set proper ownership and group permissions (or keep Yummy FTP or another FTP client around to help with the chore). Great product.... Much more stable than Macfuse.
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| Apr 11 2008 |
BORLOX Being based on MacFUSE, it only supports password authentication, which SSH servers exposed to the Internet shouldn't use.
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| Apr 11 2008 |
PJM Did you even *look* at the product before your fingers typed this nonsense? Hint for the clueless: read first. ssh keys work fine with ExpanDrive.
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| Jul 22 2008 |
HEMANCUSO Indeed - SSH keys do work with ExpanDrive
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| Mar 20 2008 |
MARK EVERITT Macfuse with Macfusion do exactly the same thing and are free. I use them all the time with more than 5 different servers on various operating systems and I've had no issues. If you want to try it out, search for macfusion and the site tells you exactly what to do. In short it's simply an installer for macfuse and a drag and drop for macfusion.
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| Mar 23 2008 |
LIYANAGE MacFusion is *not* equivalent to ExpanDrive. For example, with ExpanDrive I can put the laptop to sleep with all remote documents still open and take it home where it will connect to a different wireless network upon wake. ExpanDrive handles the network change gracefully, whereas MacFusion does not. Switching back to an open document in BBEdit results in along hang while BBEdit asks the OS for the on-disk state of the document. Once it finally comes back and I try to save a changed version, I get the prompt "please insert the disk xxx". This means I have to close and re-open all documents, and this is simply unusable. The ability to reconnect transparently without remounting is essential. I also don't think MacFusion does stuff like local SQLite caching or local handling of .DS_Store files instead of cluttering up the remote server. ExpanDrive is much more responsive, I see far less hangs when working with remote documents. While it is true that MacFusion and ExpanDrive do the same basic thing, there is a difference in how well they do it. MacFusion is a fine package, but ExpanDrive is a *much* more polished product, and of course it has to be for the price difference. For the record, I am not affiliated with the company in any way, even if my comments about ExpanDrive here sound like a commercial :-) I just like the product.
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| Mar 23 2008 |
MARK EVERITT Those are fair points. I don't see the clutter so much because I use Unison to backup my laptop home folder to a server, and when at work I use macfusion to contact that backup directly, so I expect mac clutter. I never use my laptop with macfusion, and my desktop etc. are set not to sleep so I don't get the sleeping and wake up problems either. I guess I use macfusion in a way that minimises it's shortcomings naturally. :)
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| May 20 2008 |
SHOCK J MacFusion hasn't been updated in almost a year. I can't even get it to work with latest version of MacFuse.
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| Mar 20 2008 |
DONPERREAULT When I transfer files over a couple MB ExpanDrive brings my Finder to a halt. I can tab to other apps and they work but it is a pain. I still am happy with ExpanDrive for small files.
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| Mar 20 2008 |
LIYANAGE This is simply fantastic. Tried it and bought it immediately. If you work a lot with files on remote servers via SFTP, you need this. This is the first virtual SFTP file-system solution that works and doesn't hang the machine. I can even edit files directly off a remote volume with Office applications. This resulted in hangs and corrupted documents with stuff like sshfs. I really like how the developers addressed the most important concerns from Mac users almost immediately in the last two updates. Buy this. Really :-)
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| Mar 6 2008 |
DONPERREAULT ExpanDrive provides secure transparently access to your servers. I took if for test drive and purchased immediately.
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| Feb 26 2008 |
WEB-JIVE Seems to be headed in the right direction but... The SFTP servers I connect to require them. From what I have seen (testing), Exapdrive doesn't support SSH keys yet. Hopefully soon.. For now, uninstall.
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| Feb 27 2008 |
ERICOB From the FAQ: "Can I use public keys? Yes - leave the password field blank, and if you have a key already set up it will authenticate you."
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| Feb 27 2008 |
WEB-JIVE I tried that and I got the error: 'no more authentication methods available, 14' Does Epandrive support private SSH keys with passwords? This is how I have the server setup since it's a hosting server.
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| Feb 26 2008 |
DORKYPANTS What does this do for $29 that you can't do with Google's free MacFUSE and the freeware MacFusion menubar utility that makes use of it? Installing them is a no-brainer. You set your favorite ssh/sftp remote hosts, then mount them as ordinary volumes, to which any app can read/write as easily as a local volume.
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| Feb 26 2008 |
WFM it seems to do the same, but it is defiantly quicker and more responsive. from what I can see, macfuse can connect to many more types of file system, however I know I only really use SFTP, so this program seems to work great.
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