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No support for Snow Leopard yet?

Programme runs but nothing (sftp or ftp) mounts.

Are there any command line extensions for the Windows version to connect/disconnect drives? I know it is possible in the MAC version. If it is possible in the Windows version too, what are they? I haven't manage to find anything in the docs/website.

Browsing a connected S3 account in the Finder causes the Finder to hang for > 5 minutes (and the spinning pinwheel).

When an MS office app opens a file on a network drive it creates an "owner file". This filename is the same as the original document with the first two characters replaced by "~$".

This facilitates the "document is opened by another user" message, and gives you the open in read only option.

When using a mapped WebDrive and opening a .doc file on one PC, then trying to open the same .doc on a different PC with another copy of WebDrive / mapped drive the "already open" dialog does NOT appear..

I have checked the ftp server and the file is created, so WebDrive is working as far as creating the "owner file". I've also checked with SysInternals filemon, and it looks as though Word is also READing the owner file, however for some reason it's ignoring it / not treating it as if it was located on a standard (smb/etc.) mapped drive.

Any ideas? This is important and depends on if I buy a multi-user license for use at a client site..

Is there any way to the Finder from playing with .DS_Store files on Expandrive-mounted partitions? Can we at least teach Expandrive not to try copying those files to such drives?

How do I change permissions using ExpanDrive?

Why should I pay $20 to upgrade to ExpanDrive 2.0? I understand that developing software isn't free, but I'm hesitant to rely on a product that will require me to pay to upgrade. I bought 1.x more than 60 days ago but found it unusable because it was slow and unreliable. I just can't justify paying another 66% of the purchase price just to get the functionality I wanted in the first place.

Take a cue from other applications in this space like Textmate and Transmit. Both offer free upgrades and have attracted a loyal following being the defacto standard for quality must-have apps. I really like the concept of ExpanDrive, I just wish it was more consumer friendly.

Get error message when trying to connect: "MacFUSE Runtime Version Mismatch", but doesn't say what version it needs. Installed 2.1.5 (beta) - in general it should not be a problem. So how to proceed further?

I cannot connect to sftp over non-standard ports. Even though I can ssh from the command line using -p option. it works fine over standard port.

Is it impossible to select either an implicit encryption or an explicit encryption in FTPS?
If not, I hope you to implement it in the next release...

I want to set-up a symbolic link to my expanddrive (sftp) attached drive, so that I can have it appear in my back-up program's path.

Does anyone have any idea what the path would be (on a mac) to an SFTP mounted ExpanDrive called 'MyStuff'?

While connecting via ftp to a shared hosting environment I see all the sym links but trying to follow them gives me the "Fix alias" error. I don't know if they are relative or absolute.

ExpanDrive supports direct SSH connections, but it seems to not support SSH tunnels, which would be really easy for it to configure and set up.

All you would have to do is add an SSH proxy host and port configuration, which would default to nothing, resulting in current behavior: direct SSH connections.

I can work around it for now, using a terminal command line ssh tunnel command:

eg. ssh -N -L 2222:myrealdesthost:22 mysshproxyhost

Then, configuring ExpanDrive to connect to localhost:2222

But, this makes expanDrive not seamless, and not something I can give my CEO for remote access to our servers through the ssh-proxy-firewall.

Any estimations on if and when such a feature might be supported?

I'd like to a) tell it to cache very aggressively and never check files again b) have a button to reset the cache.

WebDrive does this.

Latest version of NTFS-3G released today (2009.4.4) which now comes bundled with MacFUSE, breaks ExpanDrive. Which version of MacFUSE is compatible with ExpanDrive?

When I add files to my S3 repository they are private to the public, even though the ACL's on that bucket are set correctly (and files uploaded by other means work correctly)?

I cannot get ExpanDrive 2.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6 to work with S3 for the life of me. It show that I'm connected to S3 just fine, but if I try and dump anything onto the S3 drive, it tells me that I have to enter my admin password first, err ok, and then when I do, it says I do not have sufficient privileges. Can someone help here?

I can browse and open files just fine with my expanDrive mounted drive, however, when editing a remote file in MacVim or in terminal, the application freezes up until the file has been saved. The files I'm saving are tiny text files (~70K) but it hangs for 3-4 seconds each time I save. This may be more of an issue relating to those two programs, but I can't use expanDrive with that kind of latency. To compare, I tried opening the same file in textmate and that saved fine. Any help would be appreciated.

Using ExpanDrive v1.8.3: What is the UNC path for my drive?

I'm using ExpanDrive to connect to an SFTP server. It often takes 20-30 seconds for a directory listing, causes the finder to hang, takes 30+ seconds to save a file, etc. On more than one occasion, ExpanDrive has caused the finder to crash.

I've tried connecting from a "standard" SFTP client and response time is very quick. This indicates that the problem is with ExpanDrive.