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Enjoy this frightening video of Expandrive hosing my files.

After a while the SftpDrive connections seem to disconnect and take a while to reconnect and display the contents in the Windows Explorer.
It takes about 22 seconds before the contents is displayed; no CPU activity; Windows 2003 SP2 (tested on 2 computers). No problems on Windows 2000.

sftp transfer speed is *very* slow. Between ExpanDrive and programs like sftp and Transmit, the speed difference over a local LAN is orders of magnitude. Files that transfer at 10-20MB/s using Transmit's SFTP and take 10-20 seconds takes minutes using ExpanDrive.

The example images are screenshots of ExpanDrive and Transmit in action copying the same file across a local Gigabit LAN connection.

I am trying to use ExpanDrive with my Amazon S3 account. I get an error when I try to add any documents or folders to the connected drive, "The operation could not be completed because you do not have enough access privileges."

Had FTP volume mounted for Web Host and Multiple files open in TextMate Project mod. Made edits and saved. Tested site to find it was very broken only with those pages. Examined the files and found that each file opened had I bit of the other files randomly merge into it. I bought ExpandDrive because on the lack of FTP support in TextMate and this is praised as a solution. Did I miss something??

Can't log into SFTP but am able to log into FTP. This is the console:

4/24/09 6:33:10 AM 4/24 ExpanDrive[260] EXPANDRIVE_AUTH_PASSWORD: amuze@www.mylivingdesktop.com

Worked fine in previous v1.x.

I have a linux 64 bit server mounted as a drive with expandrive. I am using sftp and version 1.3.4 - already paid for version 2 but gave up using it until it is fixed, but I understand the same problem happens with version 2.

The problem: whenever the files in the server are changed by other programs (some files are deleted or added), for example while working with CODA, but it is reproducible as well with cyberduck or any other one, the expandrive window in Finder does not refresh automatically so I do not see the change. I got fooled badly by this problem yesterday.

I noticed also that "resizing" the Finder window, magically, the files reappear. I don't want magical file browser issues. Is there a way to fix this? Is it a MacFUSE bug? What is it? I also installed now a 'Finder refresh' application that should not be need in Leopard (see http://www.shasam.net/archives/35/), in order to deal with refresh issues in expandrive mounted drives but would prefer for this to work normally.

I have been a happy user of ExpanDrive on a Mac for about a year now. When version 2 came out I have been quick to upgrade expecting the promissed enhancements in speed and stability of the application. Unfortunately the experience was far from promissed and expected. Version 2 is slow to connect, it annoyingly pops up a new finder window upon connecting (Version 1 just mounted a disk), it is slow in listing folder contents, sometimes (when there is a large number of files in the folder) not listing the contents at all, it is slow in transfering files, often failing to transfer them at all. All in all the upgrade has proved to be a frustrating downgrade to an unusable product.

Luckily, I have saved a copy of ExpanDrive v1.3.1 and keep reverting to using it instead of version 2. In comparison to v2 it just works.

I am using ExpanDrive to mount ssh volumes from a combination of Mac OS X Leopard Server (most of the time), FreeBSD and Sun servers. I have not extensively tested and compared the combinations of ExpanDrive version and server, the experience however seems comparable across all the servers I connect to.