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What are your plans for SFTPDrive?
What are your plans for SFTPDrive? In February we were told to look for lots of features and fixes in the upcoming weeks. A few weeks have passed and we can see lots of activity on expandrive but that same SFTPDrive remains on the homepage.
I would really like to see features such as FTP support in SFTPDrive. I hope you still consider SFTPDrive a valued project as many of us in the field do!
I would really like to see features such as FTP support in SFTPDrive. I hope you still consider SFTPDrive a valued project as many of us in the field do!
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Inappropriate?Brian -
All of the features that are in ExpanDrive will be making it into SftpDrive, it will take a bit of time for us to consolidate them down into one working set. It's still going to be a few months. For now, you can expect some incremental bug fixes
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Inappropriate?So now that it's been 3 months since this reply... any idea when we might see some of these incremental bug fixes? -
Inappropriate?We definitely have an interest in the product! Plus I have some clients that work through ftp alone and it just seems strange that sftp drive can't support that type of connection.
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Inappropriate?I've been wondering the same things myself. There hasn't been an official new version since February, and I've heard there are some recent development builds, but I cannot seem to find the links to any of these, and I would love to test them out. I still haven't heard whether there was any info on the problem of Explorer crashing either. That alone has still prevented me from recommending its use across my office. If it were stable, I could easily convince my boss to pick up a few dozen licenses.3 Comments
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Are you sure you are running the current release? I haven't had any problems with explorer crashing or being of date since I went to the site and re-downloaded the software. It was simply a bug fix release half a year ago (or so it feels) with no fan fair. In fact I think I'll try a download again today to see if there were any more fixes... FTP support would be very worth of fanfare... and even an upgrade fee... -
I'm using 1.7.9. Unless there was a quiet update with no version bump, I believe I'm using the latest version. I'm less concerned with FTP myself as there are other FTP Drive clients, although I'm not sure how good those are.
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yep, that's the version I have. Your situation must be different than mine. NetDrive is unstable on Vista and WebDrive fails the usability test miserably as far as speed is concerned due to our massively redundant directory structure. It's "optimizations" work against it, in our situation. Additionally, it seems wrong to install it when I have a preferred solution that does what outwardly appears to be pretty much the same thing.
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Inappropriate?Cliff -
We're about to rename SftpDrive to ExpanDrive for windows and merge the two code bases into one. There are occasional reports of Explorer crashing, but from what we saw it wasn't attributable to SftpDrive, if we had some sort of consistent measure by which to produce a crash we'd certainly have issued a new fix.
Are you using the program daily? How is it working?
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I use it every day at work. I used to leave the drives connected all week, but I think the crashing lessened after I started disconnecting at night and reconnecting in the morning. I'm still fairly certain it's something related to sftpdrive, although it could be due to the crazy amount of symlinking, bad mounts, etc we have on our systems. Regardless, it still never fails that any day I'm heavily browsing through my explorer windows on Sftp mounts (and sometimes not Sftp mounts, it just happens to be while Sftp has a mount at all) explorer will crash to some extent.
Sometimes it's just the window, but if that's the case it will usually crash more spectacularly a little bit later, and take the rest of the Windows gui with it. I have yet to find a specific path that will always crash it, but the crash always comes after the initial highly responsive period. I'm referring to where at first, browsing around, rightclicking a file, etc is very responsive over the mount, but after a time there is a delay, where it seems to be 'refreshing', and the right click takes a significant amount of time. It's after that point, that the browsing seems to be more likely to cause a crash. It seems to happen most often after it just sits dormant for a while, and then I go back to the window, make a few clicks, and then there's a crash.
I was using Dr Watson for a while, but it seemed to be causing more problems than it was helping with, and I could not figure out how to disable it as the debugger once I had enabled it. Methods I found via google weren't helping much. -
Inappropriate?I work in SFTP drive 10+ hours a day. This last release fixed most of my issues. I use it and ZTreeWin and notepad++ for all of my linux file management except for when I am working from an IP that is not whitelisted for ssh access for one of my clients. Then I am back to using WinSCP yuck...
The only problems I have had is that N++ does not always recieve an error when I try to save to a file that does not have group write privileges(Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't) and that I have to log in to change that access. It would be smoother if ExpanDrv4Win could do that (and have a check box to allow it to attempt to sudo do it).
Let me know if you need a heavy use beta tester!
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?Hi guys,
I got this product back in June 2007, and was told that FTP support was planned. I started this thread in June 2008, and you mentioned it was gonna be a few months yet. You were more specific here: http://bit.ly/sNIhM later in June and said we'd have FTP support by the end of summer 2008. Four months ago, in March, 2009, in the same thread you'd said it:
"FTP is coming with ExpanDrive for Windows v2.0, which we're targeting for late summer. Sorry we can't do it sooner, but we've got another major project in the works which we'll be announcing shortly."
I have been looking for that new product on your store page but I've not seen it.
Are we at a point where we can see the light at the end of the tunnel for this? Hopefully, you're now really on the expandrive source and that gives you some advantages like oop or something that will make ftp support a little easier. But please don't forget about us... I've been working with this one client that would still rather we all use non-secure FTP access rather than provide ssl access.
I've now contracted more work for them and it is going to be a PAIN do deal with this the old fashioned way.
Can you tell me if "end of summer" has been pushed? or is that a real hope. And does "end of summer" actually mean in the fall, or can we expect ExpanDrive 2.0 for Windows to be released in August?
Right now you are ending up creating false advertising situations when you have Chris Pirillo talking all about how ExpanDrive 2.0 is out with support for SFTP and FTP as he talks about how ExpanDrive works on a Mac and PC. I was very disappointed that day.
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Brian - sorry about this. Like we said before, we've undertaken a major new project which we'll be announcing soon. Following that, ExpanDrive 2 for the PC is our next major endeavor. We're still hoping to get it out this year.
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Inappropriate?On a more positive note I was able to get these guys on to my servers as clients, So ftp is no longer a priority at all for me. long live ssh!
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