Recently active problems in ExpanDrive

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.

I just tried to install the tinymce module on a Drupal site using ExpanDrive and couldn't do it. Aside from being painfully slow...it just wouldn't complete the upload. It would copy a few things (very slowly) and then tell me it couldn't continue because some file was in use. I tried installing it bit by bit...a file here, creating a folder manually and then uploading the contents. Got a bit more installed that way, which took several minutes, and then it failed again.

Fired up Transmit, dropped the entire folder and - no exaggeration - it was done in 30 seconds.

What's the problem?

Drives not ejecting properly. Right clicking on desktop icon to eject removes desktop icon, but drive manager still shows it as mounted.

I eject a drive and expandrive still shows it as mounted in the "drive manager" window.

The drive was acting odd, so I wanted to eject and re-mount it. I can't do this since expandrive still shows it as mounted. (But it is not.)

I've tried ejecting different ways and get the same results.

ExpandDrive keeps asking me to install MacFUSE. I say "okay", type in my password, and a few seconds later ExpanDrive says "Install Error - Something happened that we eididn't expect, and we weren't able to install ExpanDrive [...]". I can no longer use the product that I paid for, and haven't been able to do so for a month now. I have emailed Magnetk with no reply. Can anyone help me?

ExpanDrive 1.3.4 : everything ok. ExpanDrive 2.0 can’t access (same) SFTP Server, asks for password again and again. No Connection.

Tried following steps:
- tried ExpanDrive 1.3.4 = working
- Edited "/Users/USERNAME/.ssh/known_hosts" = no connection (asked for password)
- deleted drive and added again = no connection (asked for password)
- reboot of system = no connection (asked for password)
- ExpanDrive 2.0 still refuses to connect, asks for password again and again
- ExpanDrive 1.3.4 = working

Please help.

Since you buried the discussion I originally responded to I'm unsure as to how to reply to this anymore, so I've created a new topic. Sorry it's taken me so long to respond to you. It's been a hectic week, and I've finally gotten the time to do what you asked of me.

There are a few hidden files in the folders, hidden files the Finder places there such as .DS_Store. I'd prefer it not put any of those files there, and I'm unsure if that's something you all can solve within ExpanDrive or not as it tends to be an annoying Finder thing.

I created a log file, but I need the email address you'd like me to send it to or other preferred method of delivery. I started the log immediately before I mounted the SFTP drive, and the log ends when everything stops working after I start a transfer of a 10MB file to my SFTP server. The log doesn't display the error messages the Finder provides me, so I will provide them here.

When Finder errors out after the transfer's hanging for 2 minutes it displays this:

The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "" could not be read or written. (Error code -36)

In addition to that TextMate suddenly doesn't have a clue as to where the files are and have turned the filenames in the drawer red. If I close that project and drag the folder over again to TextMate it brings up this error:

The application "TextMate" cannot be launched. -120

None of the files on that mounted drive at that time can be opened or edited without erroring. ExpanDrive still shows it as mounted, and if I disconnect and reconnect the drive everything works okay (although slowly like I mentioned before) until I attempt again to transfer large files.

This only discusses some of the problems I mentioned in my response in the old topic. The application's slowness seems to be almost everywhere, although it appears from your responses to everyone you think it might have its roots in listing files. Hopefully you may be able to figure out what's going wrong from the log I can send you.

Thanks for your replies, and again I'm sorry for taking so long to respond.

Finder hangs when trying to view a remote directory with many files (~9000)

I'm using Expandrive 2.0.1 on OS X to mount a directory over SSH. Things seem to work for a little while but eventually Finder will time out and I won't be able to view contents of my folders. When I look in Console.app I'll have log messages that say "The file '/Volumes/blah' does not exist". At this point it doesn't but Expandrive still lists the volume as mounted, it won't eject, etc. Any ideas?

Also to head off the question that I see asked often, you can't log onto my box. :) Sorry, internal network.

Cannot purchase Expandrive, get an "Invalid Coupon" error even though the coupon field is empty. Tried in Firefox 3 and Safari 3, Mac OSX. See attached for error message.

https://secure.expandrive.com/store

For ssh public-key authentication I have multiple identity files defined in ~/.ssh/config and that allows other apps like Terminal.app ssh login and Transmit to successfully connect using my second identity file. I recently started using Meerkat to setup ssh tunnel when Colloquy launches, and with an account that uses non-default Identity the Meerkat account must be configured with the location of the id_rsa private key.

Although other apps work with alternate ssh Identities, ExpanDrive fails after two authentication attempts as if it is ignoring my ~/.ssh/config file.

Yes I left the password blank and yes ExpanDrive works fine connecting to ssh servers that rely on my primary ssh Identity. The problem only happens with ssh sessions that use alternate private/public key pairs that are defined in my ~/.ssh/config file.

It goes through copying and looks good, but fails on random files without a report!! Once it has done this, sometimes it looks like the server has been wiped, but fortunately it's just the app going wrong.

I'm trying to get ExpanDrive working on my iBook G4 for a while.

Everything is working fine except for SFTP, which is the feature that made me try ED in the first place and the only one I'll need.

My observations are :
First in the Console while loading ED :

        2009-05-21 17:05:59.715 Safari[539] CFLog (21): 


dyld returns 2 when trying to load /Users/louisjacques/Library/Contextual Menu Items/ExpanDriveCMPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/ExpanDriveCMPlugin


        

I've no idea why there's "Safari[539]" but I went to problematic dorectory and tried this :

        $ lipo -info ExpanDriveCMPlugin 


        Non-fat file: ExpanDriveCMPlugin is architecture: i386


        

ok, that's it. it's compile for i386 and I have a PowerPC

As the rest of ED works with PowerPC, I don't know if this is a mistake (you didn't compile this part in Universal) or if it is necessary (Intel only feature being used).

Either way, there's a problem because even if it's the latter, I should get a nice message telling me "SFTP doesn't work with PowerPC" or the feature should be disabled altogether.

Is this will be solved in the next release ?

Thank you