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What's new in ExpanDrive 2023.3.1

Mar 6, 2023
  • New:
  • Improved install path for Teams console
  • E2 improvements
  • Increased SFTP reliability
  • Bug fixes for S3 Support
  • Bug fixs for Box connectivity on Linux
  • Updated Electron framework across all platforms

New in ExpanDrive 2022.7.1 (Jul 6, 2022)

  • New:
  • Added support for iDrive e2 cloud storage
  • Improvements to Sharepoint site reliability

New in ExpanDrive 2021.8.3 (Aug 18, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improvements to Sharepoint site groupings
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed some in-browser SFTP error messages that were not as informative as they needed to be

New in ExpanDrive 2021.8.2 (Aug 12, 2021)

  • Fixed:
  • Fixed sharepoint subsite scheme
  • Fixed SFTP performance issues
  • Improved Google Drive Shared Drive naming

New in ExpanDrive 2021.8.1 (Aug 5, 2021)

  • Fixed:
  • Fixed support for box.com after their API changed
  • Improved sharepoint support
  • Fixed office document creation issues on Sharepoint
  • Improved mount behavior on Expandrive for teams

New in ExpanDrive 2021.7.1 (Jul 20, 2021)

  • New:
  • Dramatically improved SFTP tranfer speed, as much as 10x in many cases
  • Improved unmount functionality under linux
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed a issue causing with Google Cloud Storage authentication

New in ExpanDrive 2021.6.4 (Jun 30, 2021)

  • Fixed:
  • Fixed a minor issue causing trouble with Google Drive authentication for new connections

New in ExpanDrive 2021.6.2 (Jun 30, 2021)

  • New:
  • External Browser-based OAuth for Dropbox/Sharepoint/OneDrive for Business/Google Drive. This is for increased security and furter opportunity to integrated with SSO flows.
  • Updated to Electron 13 for user-interface
  • Remove newer glibc dependencies on Linux. If you're having any compatability issues, let us know!

New in ExpanDrive 2021.6.1 (Jun 17, 2021)

  • New:
  • Switched to time based versioning schem
  • New code signing certificate on windows
  • A variety of internal performance and memory improvements
  • Improved support for Seagate object storage

New in ExpanDrive 7.7.9 (Apr 25, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved support for multiple OneDrive for Business accounts
  • Improvements:
  • Improved saving for Microsoft office files

New in ExpanDrive 7.7.8 (Mar 28, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved auto-updater for per-connection updates

New in ExpanDrive 7.7.6 (Feb 19, 2021)

  • New:
  • Added custom region settings for S3 connections
  • Added support for Oracle Cloud Storage

New in ExpanDrive 7.7.5 (Feb 17, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improvements for S3 multi-region settings
  • Improvements quit timeout behavior

New in ExpanDrive 7.7.1 (Jan 22, 2021)

  • New:
  • macOS 11 themed icon

New in ExpanDrive 7.7.0 (Jan 13, 2021)

  • New:
  • Google Drive in-browseer authentication
  • Google Cloud in-browseer authentication
  • Improvements:
  • Improved issue where upload queue could get stuck
  • New Google Icons

New in ExpanDrive 7.6.5 (Oct 14, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Fixed issues where 0 byte files could sometimes be uploaded
  • Fixed showing and hiding the UI on certain flavors of Linux
  • Fixed small install issues

New in ExpanDrive 7.6.3 (Oct 7, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Fixed dependencies on older versions of macOS
  • SFTP improvements with key exchange

New in ExpanDrive 7.6.2 (Oct 7, 2020)

  • New:
  • Support of macOS 11 Big Sur
  • Improvements:
  • Re-done background office file saving should speed up and make more resilient saving office files during transient errors
  • GUI improvements
  • Improved sharepoint site management
  • Lowered time to flush to wire in most scenarios

New in ExpanDrive 7.6.1 (Sep 30, 2020)

  • New:
  • Support of macOS 11 Big Sur
  • Improvements:
  • Re-done background office file saving should speed up and make more resilient saving office files during transient errors
  • GUI improvements
  • Improved sharepoint site management
  • Lowered time to flush to wire in most scenarios

New in ExpanDrive 7.6.0 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • Support of macOS 11 Big Sur
  • Improvements:
  • Re-done background office file saving should speed up and make more resilient saving office files during transient errors
  • GUI improvements
  • Improved sharepoint site management
  • Lowered time to flush to wire in most scenarios

New in ExpanDrive 7.5.0 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • Improved support for ExpanDrive for Teams
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where the write-behind queue could sometimes get stuck on small files on Windows

New in ExpanDrive 7.4.10 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • Improvements:
  • Increased write-behind cache size for Amazon S3
  • Fixed:
  • If no site is selected on Sharepoint, default to mounting the team site

New in ExpanDrive 7.4.9 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • ExpanDrive for Teams integration in new drive panel
  • Support button in-app
  • Fixed:
  • Fixes to launch at login functionality for Linux
  • Improvements to menubar for OAuth authorization on Linux

New in ExpanDrive 7.4.8 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Improved multi-user file locking performance and reliability for ad-hoc MS Office file locking across multiple platforms

New in ExpanDrive 7.4.7 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Google Login now correctly works on Mac and Linux, issue with updated OAuth flow should now be resolved. If you see any further notices please reach out to [email protected]
  • When a large number of connections was in the sidebar it sometimes would not get a scrollbar. Now it does!

New in ExpanDrive 7.4.6 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • Improvements:
  • Changed how Google login is handled so ExpanDrive doens't show up as a mobile browser in security notifications
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where context menus would not show up on mac
  • Fixed a number of issues on Linux that lead to a "Transport not connected" state.

New in ExpanDrive 7.4.5 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • Improvements to setting up Sharepoint connections - we now allow you to map a specific site of sites directly within the manager. You can select from a list of sites we can see via the API or you can manually type one in if it isn't listed.
  • Improvements:
  • Better handling of the remote path setting on Google Drive
  • Fixed:
  • Browser hover on sidebar now gives more consistent messages while connected
  • Fixed screen size issue when activating a new trial while upgrading from ExpanDrive 6 or earlier

New in ExpanDrive 7.4.2 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved integration with Azure
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where the app could not get dragged on mac
  • Fixed an issue that could cause an auto-update not to fully complete

New in ExpanDrive 7.2.0 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • Experimental support for 10.15
  • Add 64-bit binaries for Windows
  • Start distributing 32 & 64-bit MSI installation packaged suitable for system-wide multi-user deployments
  • Improvements:
  • improvements to remote refresh

New in ExpanDrive 7.0.17 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • Added support for 10.14.5
  • Fixed:
  • Fixes compatibility with some older Linux distributions that have outdated gcc libraries.

New in ExpanDrive 7.0.12 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • New:
  • command-line interface for controlling ExpanDrive
  • Improvements:
  • improvements to Azure Storage, B2 connectivity and as well as improvements to OneDrive and Sharepoint connections.

New in ExpanDrive 6.4.7 (Jun 12, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • Support for macOS 10.14.5

New in ExpanDrive 6.4.6 (May 13, 2019)

  • NEW:
  • Upgrade path to ExpanDrive 7

New in ExpanDrive 6.4.5 (Feb 18, 2019)

  • NEW: Improvements to decrease memory usage
  • FIXED: S3 remote path setting fixed

New in ExpanDrive 6.4.3 (Jan 25, 2019)

  • NEW: [mac] Improved support for 10.14 Mojave Dark mode
  • NEW: Added support to match UID of remote file if supported by server in SFTP
  • CHANGED: Improvements for SSL handling webdav
  • FIXED: Decreased memory usage, specifically when streaming media files.

New in ExpanDrive 6.3.0 (Nov 6, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • [mac] Added support for macOS 10.14 Mojave Dark mode
  • Added support for B2 application-specific keys
  • FIXED:
  • Improved SFTP/S3 refresh on remote files
  • Improved SFTP background reconnect

New in ExpanDrive 6.2.0 (Sep 30, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • Added support for macOS 10.14 Mojave
  • FIXED:
  • Fixed Google Cloud Storage Project ID compatibility

New in ExpanDrive 6.1.11 (Feb 9, 2018)

  • FIXED:
  • The copy link functionality is working again on Windows
  • Fixed an SFTP issue that could cause multiple SSH sessions to spin up
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent folder listing on Sharepoint
  • Fixed an issue where SMB/AFP drives wouldn't mount if the path contained spaces on Mac
  • WebDAV Parsing improvements
  • Lots of important fixes for Google Cloud Storage
  • CHANGED:
  • Faster SFTP flush threshold
  • Larger re-ahead buffers to increase throughput

New in ExpanDrive 6.1.6 (Nov 23, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • FIXED: Improved context Menu support on Mac
  • FIXED: Improved SFTP support on Windows, especially in error conditions
  • NEW: Context Menu checkmarks showing sync state for offline mode

New in ExpanDrive 6.1.2 (Oct 2, 2017)

  • NEW: Fixes updating from v5.5 issue as well as Dropbox login issue.

New in ExpanDrive 6.1.1 (Oct 2, 2017)

  • Fixes updating from v5.5 issue as well as dropbox login issue.

New in ExpanDrive 6.1.0 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • NEW: Support for macOS 10.13 High Sierra
  • NEW: Offline Mode
  • NEW: Multi-threaded transfer engine that is up to 500% faster
  • NEW: Support for Google Team Drive and Backblaze B2
  • NEW: All new user interface
  • NEW: Context Menus integrated into Finder and Explorer
  • NEW: Transferring badges
  • NEW: Integrated search
  • NEW: Access file versioning info

New in ExpanDrive 6.0.13 (Jul 27, 2017)

  • Support for mapping specific sharepoint sites
  • Fixed sometimes failing delete on WebDAV
  • Big improvements to FTP/FTPS compatibilityu
  • SFTP Upload improvements
  • Improvements in handling disallowed OneDrive/Sharepoint filenames
  • Fixed Dropbox mkdir
  • Stop uploading thumbs.db
  • Disable quicklook indexing

New in ExpanDrive 6.0.12 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • Improved logging
  • Improved default authentication options for SSH
  • Fixes to auto-updater settings
  • Improved crash reporter
  • Improved bucket creation for S3-compatible services
  • Improved compatiblity for non-AWS S3-compatible services
  • Improvements for WebDAV/Owncloud uploading
  • Improvements for macOS 10.10 and 10.11
  • SFTP new files mode now set to 0755
  • Finder quicklook disabled for faster directory browsing

New in ExpanDrive 6.0.10 (Jul 13, 2017)

  • Fixes to OneDrive Login
  • Better shell performance on Windows
  • Improvements to SMB support

New in ExpanDrive 6.0.9 (Jul 13, 2017)

  • Further fixes to multi-step oauth login
  • Fixes on Mac for file badges and shell extension
  • Fixes to improve support for S3-compatible servers
  • Sharepoint root directory listing fixes
  • Better handling of a failed oauth attempt

New in ExpanDrive 6.0.8 (Jul 8, 2017)

  • Fix Dropbox Login Window.

New in ExpanDrive 5.5.4 (Jun 21, 2017)

  • FIXED Improves dropbox connectivity
  • NEW All new transfer/connection engine which bring much greater speed and reliability.
  • NEW Improved connection monitoring and error handling
  • FIXED Fixed occasional connectivity issues with Google Drive
  • FIXED Fixed rare disconnection issus

New in ExpanDrive 5.5.1 (Jun 15, 2017)

  • NEW: All new transfer/connection engine which bring much greater speed and reliability.
  • NEW: Improved connection monitoring and error handling
  • FIXED: Fixed occasional connectivity issues with Google Drive
  • FIXED: Fixed rare disconnection issus

New in ExpanDrive 5.4.6 (Apr 26, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • FIXED: Fixed issue with file deletion on OneDrive/Sharepoint
  • FIXED: Fixed issue with Sharepoint accounts that have no reportable quota
  • FIXED: Improved Dropbox upload throughput
  • FIXED: Small UI improvements to help keep Auth Window topmost

New in ExpanDrive 5.4.5 (Feb 4, 2017)

  • FIXED: Sharepoint connector fixes including authentication and deletion
  • FIXED: Amazon Cloud Drive authentication on Mac has been updated due to a change in Amazon's OAuth flow
  • FIXED: Fixed an issue with refreshing folders with non-ascii characters on Mac that could cause Finder to return the view to the root
  • NEW: Much improved throughput for Dropbox transfers as well as correct Folder modification times and support for larger listings in folders

New in ExpanDrive 5.4.4 (Jan 19, 2017)

  • FIXED Improvements with non-ascii characters while using Dropbox as well as general unicode improvements while running on macOS
  • FIXED -43 error on macOS now fixed, sometimes caused by permissions bits getting written that couldn't be persisted.
  • FIXED Exit code -4 on macOS fixed, due to a code signature problem on Yosemite
  • FIXED OneDrive for business will now correctly display the contents of directories that have more than 200 entries.
  • FIXED Dropbox will now correctly show folder modification dates and also correclty list contents of directories with more than 2000 entries
  • FIXED Fixed an occasional save issue with Adobe Acrobat on Windows
  • FIXED Improved multi-threaded upload on both macOS and Windows
  • NEW Renaming empty folders on S3/Swift is now supported
  • NEW Integrated crash reporter on macOS has been added has b
  • NEW Multi-user support for Windows Terminal Server/Citrix environments

New in ExpanDrive 5.4.2 (Nov 23, 2016)

  • NEW Switched to MSI based installer
  • NEW Improved Openstack Swift large write performance
  • NEW Improved CPU Usage on large file write-backs
  • FIXED Fixed an issue 0-lenth files to Amazon Drive
  • FIXED Improvements to OneDrive connector on large uploads
  • CHANGED Improved Amazon Drive download performance

New in ExpanDrive 5.4.1 (Sep 28, 2016)

  • FIXED: Resolved an issue connecting to Google Drive/Google Cloud Storage.

New in ExpanDrive 5.4.0 (Sep 22, 2016)

  • NEW: Support for macOS Sierra
  • FIXED: Various speed and caching improvements

New in ExpanDrive 5.3.2 (Jul 28, 2016)

  • NEW: Improved support for Sharepoint Online [Office 365 Sites]
  • FIXED: Updated free space reporting on OneDrive
  • FIXED: Improvements to unicode normalization on Mac
  • FIXED: Fixed Amazon Cloud Drive upload conflict resolution
  • FIXED: Improved Dropbox large uploads
  • FIXED: Fixed SFTP private key selection on Windows UI

New in ExpanDrive 5.3.0 (Jun 2, 2016)

  • NEW: Preliminary support for Sharepoint Online [Office 365 Sites]
  • NEW: Rewritten WebDAV connector
  • NEW: All-new metadata caching layer, bringing faster access and asynchrnous updates of regularly used data
  • NEW: Moved to OneDrive v2 API
  • NEW: Improvements to SFTP layer for speed and large file transfers
  • FIXED: Many speed improvements while editing MS Office documents

New in ExpanDrive 5.1.9 (Apr 6, 2016)

  • FIXED: SFTP regression while editing files via expandrive and remotely has been fixed
  • FIXED: Reconnect at logon now more robust

New in ExpanDrive 5.1.8 (Mar 25, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • FIXED - SFTP issue with certain editors whereby a hang could sometime occur
  • FIXED - Improved WebDAV compatibility

New in ExpanDrive 5.1.7 (Feb 1, 2016)

  • FIXED: Important security update - Sparkle auto-updater framework updated to address security vulnerability.

New in ExpanDrive 5.1.6 (Dec 11, 2015)

  • Fixed issue with OS X 10.7-10.9 directory listings in Finder
  • Fixed name escaping issue on large uploads to Dropbox
  • Fixed UI issue where nickname wouldn't save on drive creation
  • Fixed issue where two drives with the same nickname wouldn't mount at once.
  • Added support for PathFinder on OS X

New in ExpanDrive 5.1.5 (Nov 25, 2015)

  • Fixed issue saving files in MS Office/iWork apps
  • Changed chunk size in S3/Swift connections uploading

New in ExpanDrive 5.1.4 (Nov 4, 2015)

  • NEW: Big Improvements to SFTP reconnect support, covering all the edge cases. SFTP/FTP will now always correctly reconnect on-demand if you've lost your connection due to sleep/network/server issues
  • FIXED: Fixed auto-updater issue on OS X El Capitan. If you're on El Capitan and are running 5.1.3, you'll need to manually update to this release. Our apologies.
  • FIXED: Fixed Amazon Cloud Drive authentication issue
  • FIXED: Fixed issue creating folders with Google Cloud Storage
  • FIXED: Fixed SFTP unicode normalization issue on Mac
  • FIXED: Fixed OpenStack Swift error when alternate ports were being used for the storage server
  • FIXED: Fixed issue with Amazon Cloud Drive folder creation
  • CHANGED: Enabled rename on S3/Swift

New in ExpanDrive 5.1.3 (Nov 2, 2015)

  • NEW Big Improvements to SFTP reconnect support, covering all the edge cases. SFTP/FTP will now always correctly reconnect on-demand if you've lost your connection due to sleep/network/server issues
  • FIXED Fixed issue creating folders with Google Cloud Storage
  • FIXED Fixed SFTP unicode normalization issue on Mac
  • FIXED Fixed OpenStack Swift error when alternate ports were being used for the storage server
  • FIXED Fixed issue with Amazon Cloud Drive folder creation
  • CHANGED Enabled rename on S3/Swift

New in ExpanDrive 5.1.2 (Oct 14, 2015)

  • NEW: Amazon Cloud Drive support
  • NEW: Dramatically improved performance, more details on our blog.
  • NEW: Complete rewrite of most drive-types.
  • NEW: Hybrid online-offline mode.
  • NEW: New Icon!
  • NEW: Transferring status now reflected in taskbar icon
  • NEW: Proxy support
  • NEW: Updated Look and feel
  • NEW: Further improved support of OS X 10.11 El Capitan
  • FIXED: Fixed issue on OS X 10.9 where drives would fail to mount
  • FIXED: Fixed SFTP issue with editing files locally and on server at the same time
  • FIXED: Fixed issue listing directories with more than 2k entries on Amazon S3
  • FIXED: Fixed issue deleting certain folders on S3/Swift
  • FIXED: 0-byte files are now correctly flushed out
  • CHANGED: Enabled rename on S3/Swift

New in ExpanDrive 5.1.0 (Oct 9, 2015)

  • NEW Amazon Cloud Drive support
  • NEW Dramatically improved performance, more details on our blog.
  • NEW Complete rewrite of most drive-types.
  • NEW Hybrid online-offline mode.
  • NEW Support for Windows 10
  • NEW New Icon!
  • NEW Transferring status now reflected in taskbar icon
  • NEW Proxy support
  • NEW Updated Look and feel
  • Improvements:
  • NEW Full support of OS X 10.11 El Capitan
  • FIXED Issue deleting files on OS X 10.11 would sometimes generate a "-43" error
  • FIXED Fixed a WebDAV normalization issue with international character sets on Mac
  • FIXED Fixed issue on Windows where truncating files that are > 2GB
  • FIXED Fixed issue causing certain crashes on drive startup on Windows
  • FIXED Fixed issue listing directories with more than 2k entries on Amazon S3
  • FIXED Fixed issue deleting certain folders on S3/Swift
  • FIXED 0-byte files are now correctly flushed out
  • CHANGED Enabled rename on S3/Swift

New in ExpanDrive 5.0.19 (Sep 24, 2015)

  • NEW: Amazon Cloud Drive support
  • NEW: Dramatically improved performance, more details on our blog.
  • NEW: Complete rewrite of most drive-types.
  • NEW: Hybrid online-offline mode.
  • NEW: New Icon!
  • NEW: Transferring status now reflected in taskbar icon
  • NEW: Proxy support
  • NEW: Updated Look and feel
  • FIXED: Free space report for storage accounts with unlimited free space
  • FIXED: Transient SFTP truncation problem fixed
  • FIXED: Fixed usage of ampersand in filenames on Dropbox and S3
  • FIXED: Detect S3 bucket region from error message when no permission to discover region.
  • CHANGED: Use smaller chunk for uploading large files to Dropbox, improving reliability.

New in ExpanDrive 5.0.18 (Sep 10, 2015)

  • FIXED - Fixed intermittent connection issue with FTP/WebDAV drives on Mac

New in ExpanDrive 5.0.17 (Sep 9, 2015)

  • NEW Auto-detect mime-type for S3/Swift
  • FIXED List directories with greater than 1000 entries on S3 fixed
  • FIXED Google Drive with unlimited space now shows more free space by default.
  • FIXED Fixed ghost checkbox on Mac UI
  • FIXED No longer trim whitespace from passwords
  • CHANGED Longer write timeout for operations on Mac
  • CHANGED Have OAuth show Chrome as our browser

New in ExpanDrive 5.0.16 (Aug 31, 2015)

  • FIXED: Issue where upload queue could get stuck uploading
  • FIXED: S3 buckets with capital letters now supported
  • FIXED: Fixed directory listings with files larger than 4GB

New in ExpanDrive 5.0.12 (Aug 11, 2015)

  • FIXED: Amazon Cloud Drive and Box long directory listings now fixed
  • FIXED: S3 support where getting a bucket's location is disallowed

New in ExpanDrive 5.0.11 (Jul 30, 2015)

  • NEW Amazon Cloud Drive support
  • NEW Dramatically improved performance, more details on our blog.
  • NEW Complete rewrite of most drive-types.
  • NEW Hybrid online-offline mode.
  • NEW Support for Windows 10
  • NEW New Icon!
  • NEW Transferring status now reflected in taskbar icon
  • NEW Proxy support
  • NEW Updated Look and feel
  • FIXED[mac] Fixed issue where drives would sometimes not reconnect after disconnect.

New in ExpanDrive 5.0.10 (Jul 23, 2015)

  • NEW Certain classes of files brought into cache as full files allowing speedier access from apps like MS Office
  • FIXED Directory listings on Mac sometimes incomplete viewed within Finder
  • FIXED [windows] Modtime of files for certain drive types.
  • FIXED Improved S3 support, fixing issue where bucket has period in name.

New in ExpanDrive 5.0.9 (Jul 21, 2015)

  • FIXED Albums on OneDrive now correctly shown as folders

New in ExpanDrive 5.0.8 (Jul 17, 2015)

  • NEW - Amazon Cloud Drive support
  • NEW - Dramatically improved performance, more details on our blog.
  • NEW - Complete rewrite of most drive-types.
  • NEW - Hybrid online-offline mode.
  • NEW - Support for Windows 10
  • NEW - New Icon!
  • NEW - Transferring status now reflected in taskbar icon
  • NEW - Proxy support
  • NEW - Updated Look and feel
  • FIXED - hubic support on windows fixed
  • FIXED - FTP support on Mac fixed

New in ExpanDrive 5.0.7 (Jul 16, 2015)

  • NEW: Amazon Cloud Drive support
  • NEW: Dramatically improved performance, more details on our blog.
  • NEW: Complete rewrite of most drive-types.
  • NEW: Hybrid online-offline mode.
  • NEW: Support for Windows 10
  • NEW: NEW: Icon!
  • NEW: Transferring status now reflected in taskbar icon
  • NEW: Proxy support
  • NEW: Updated Look and feel

New in ExpanDrive 4.3.2 (Mar 5, 2015)

  • CHANGED - Improved support for editing MS Office documents on Swift and S3
  • FIXED[mac] - 10.6 now no longer prompts for installation completion
  • FIXED - OneDrive authentication flow now correctly handles users with no account name set
  • FIXED - SFTP issue fixed when certain writes are denied by a server
  • FIXED - Can now more easily authenticate multiple dropbox accounts.
  • FIXED - OneDrive image upload resizing is now disabled.

New in ExpanDrive 4.3.1 (Feb 5, 2015)

  • CHANGED - Improved support for editing MS Office documents on Swift and S3
  • FIXED - Fixed timezone issue on Swift.

New in ExpanDrive 4.3.0 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • NEW: Support for NTLM authentication for Sharepoint, etc.
  • CHANGED: Improved support for versioning on Google Drive and Box
  • FIXED: Fixed timezone issue on Google Drive.

New in ExpanDrive 4.2.1 (Dec 18, 2014)

  • FIXED - Fixed issue causing some S3 connections to fail.

New in ExpanDrive 4.2.0 (Dec 17, 2014)

  • NEW - Support for Microsoft OneDrive for Business/Office 365
  • FIXED - Fixed issue where licensing information would sometimes be lost.

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.10 (Nov 20, 2014)

  • FIXED - Box.com uploads are now working again. The API changed, seemingly without notice.
  • FIXED - Occasionally some users would temporarily lose their license/settings due to slow disk access. This is fixed.

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.9 (Nov 18, 2014)

  • FIXED [Mac] Dropbox authentication now fixed
  • FIXED - OneDrive renaming and moving now correctly works
  • FIXED [Mac] larger operation timeout on Mac to avoid certain -36 errors from finder
  • CHANGED [Mac] No longer install into ~/Applications, prefer /Applications

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.8 (Nov 18, 2014)

  • NEW - Support for OS X Yosemite Dark Mode
  • NEW - Support for displaying account quota as free space on Dropbox/Google Drive/Box/Swift
  • NEW - OS 10.6 re-introduced due to popular demand
  • NEW - Reconnect at login now happens quietly, no notifications or reveal
  • NEW [Windows] SFTP keep-alive packets now sent every 60 seconds on both Windows and Mac
  • FIXED [Windows] .tmp/.swp files sometimes not getting cleaned up in editors has been fixed
  • FIXED [Windows] Box.com authentication fixed in certain scenarios on Windows
  • FIXED - Dropbox folder creation fixed
  • CHANGED - Larger write-back cache, 5GB

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.7 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • NEW: Support for OS X Yosemite Dark Mode
  • NEW: Support for displaying account quota as free space on Dropbox/Google Drive/Box/Swift
  • NEW: OS 10.6 re-introduced due to popular demand
  • NEW: Reconnect at login now happens quietly, no notifications or reveal
  • FIXED: Dropbox folder creation fixed
  • CHANGED: Larger write-back cache, 5GB

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.6 (Sep 6, 2014)

  • CHANGED:Larger write-back cache

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.5 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • FIXED: Fixed issue causing occasional slow directory listings in windows
  • FIXED: Fixed Unicode decode issue

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.4 (Jul 31, 2014)

  • NEW: Improvements to detecting new/deleted files on remote server
  • NEW: Improved support for Textmate 2
  • FIXED: Fixed support for very large S3 listings
  • FIXED: Improved support for non-ascii characters on google drive

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.3 (Jul 12, 2014)

  • Fixed issue renaming folders in Box/Dropbox

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.2 (Jul 9, 2014)

  • NEW: Background write size increased to files of 600M
  • NEWS: 3 mime-types are set based on extension
  • FIXED: [Mac] Fixed alignment of non-retina icons
  • FIXED: Improved connection error messages

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.1 (Jun 28, 2014)

  • FIXED - Fixed issue affecting SFTP file creates

New in ExpanDrive 4.1.0 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • NEW Support for Google Cloud storage
  • NEW Remote change detection and updates
  • FIXED Many small bug fixes and improvements since initial 4.0 release

New in ExpanDrive 4.0.5 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • FIXEDVarious SFTP/FTP compatibility issues, mostly targeted at Windows users.

New in ExpanDrive 4.0.2 (Jun 13, 2014)

  • NEW Instant saves! ExpanDrive now transfers files in the background so your applications can write instantly without stalling
  • NEW Massive performance increases. All protocols should see dramatically higher throughput as well as interaction speed.
  • NEW Realtime detection of remote file changes. ExpanDrive will now watch the directories you've recently visited to poll for changes
  • NEW All-new Taskbar centric UI that gets out of your way
  • NEW Microsoft OneDrive support
  • NEW ownCloud support
  • NEW Copy.com support
  • NEW HP Helion Cloud support
  • NEW hubiC support

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3042 (Apr 2, 2014)

  • FIXED: Some small number of upgrades from v2 would get stuck with a blank UI
  • FIXED: Further Openstack Keystone improvements
  • FIXED: OS X 10.6 support fixed
  • FIXED: Dreamhost Dream Objects labeling now corrected
  • FIXED: Improvements for large uploads on Google Drive/Dropbox

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3039 (Mar 13, 2014)

  • NEW: Shared with Me folder now visible for Google Drive
  • NEW: Dropbox for business authentication
  • NEW: Support tested for Oracle Cloud storage
  • FIXED: Further Openstack Keystone improvements
  • FIXED: Google Drive supports folders with large numbers of files better
  • FIXED: First drive is always selected in UI on startup
  • FIXED: Non-ascii usernames are now better supported in Dropbox
  • CHANGED: [mac] By default ExpanDrive no longer shows up in the dock on Mac

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3038 (Mar 5, 2014)

  • NEW: [mac] Monochrome retina icon
  • NEW: Anonymous FTP support added
  • NEW: Support for S3/IAM accounts where ACL get/set permissions aren't available
  • FIXED: [mac] Statusbar menu respects sorting/state from UI correctly again
  • FIXED: Feedback button goes directly to contact form
  • NEW: Re-ordering drives in the UI.
  • NEW: Basic keyboard navigation of the UI
  • NEW: Much faster UI initial load.
  • NEW: Openstack Keystone authentication
  • NEW: Dropbox Oauth 2 support
  • FIXED: Many UI bugs fixed, re-written UI internals

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3037 (Mar 1, 2014)

  • NEW: Re-ordering drives in the UI.
  • NEW: Basic keyboard navigation of the UI
  • NEW: Much faster UI initial load.
  • NEW: Openstack Keystone authentication
  • NEW: Dropbox Oauth 2 support
  • FIXED: Many UI bugs fixed, re-written UI internals

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3034 (Jan 27, 2014)

  • FIXED: Fixed some Dropbox and FTP regressions in 3033

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3033 (Jan 25, 2014)

  • NEWLogging! Basic logging is now available from within ExpanDrive to help get a handle on what is going on under the hood.
  • NEWNon-ascii mountpoints & nicknames are now correctly supported.
  • NEWYou can now cancel a drive that is in the process of connecting. Good for stopping slow/faulty connections.
  • NEWExpanDrive makes itself visible int he tray notification area by default.
  • FIXEDRemote path setting for S3 drives is now respected
  • FIXED[windows] Scanning directories using wildcards [dir *.pdf] is now working again in all cased

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3032 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • FIXED[windows] WebDAV support fixed after regression in 3031
  • FIXEDFurther support for all international filenames on Google Drive and Dropbox

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3031 (Jan 14, 2014)

  • NEW - GUI support for picking custom SSH-key
  • NEW - Box.com support
  • NEW - Google Drive support
  • FIXED - Browsing depth now fixed
  • FIXED - Command line interaction support fixed
  • FIXED - Reconnect after sleep or connection loss improved

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3030 (Dec 10, 2013)

  • NEW: GUI support for picking custom SSH-key
  • NEW: Box.com support
  • NEW: Google Drive support
  • FIXED: Browsing depth now fixed
  • FIXED: Command line interaction support fixed
  • FIXED: Reconnect after sleep or connection loss improved

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3029 (Dec 6, 2013)

  • NEW: Box.com support
  • NEW: Google Drive support
  • NEW: Refresh finder button to refresh remote view of files
  • FIXED: Browsing depth now fixed
  • FIXED: Command line interaction support fixed
  • FIXED: Reconnect after sleep or connection loss improved

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3027 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • NEW - Box.com support
  • NEW - Google Drive support
  • NEW - Refresh finder button to refresh remote view of files
  • FIXED - Command line interaction support fixed
  • FIXED - Reconnect after sleep or connection loss improved

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3026 (Nov 27, 2013)

  • NEWGoogle Drive support
  • NEWRefresh finder button to refresh remote view of files
  • FIXEDLarge file uploads improved on Dropbox/S3/Dream Objects
  • FIXEDReconnect after sleep or connection loss improved

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3025 (Jun 21, 2013)

  • NEW: Specify the encryption style/mode for FTPS
  • NEW: Confirm before deleting drive
  • FIXED: .DS_Store files were sometimes getting stored on FTP servers
  • FIXED: .FTPS security settings not being saved on new connections
  • FIXED: Fixed Release/Beta channel toggle
  • FIXED: Remove random line across the Mac UI
  • FIXED: Fixed dependency failure on Win2008
  • FIXED: Default umask on SFTP is now 777 on both platforms
  • FIXED: Fix blank UI issue
  • FIXED: Fixed an issue where a drive could get stuck if you cancelled a password prompt
  • FIXED: Fixed activating an expired trial

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3024 (Jun 20, 2013)

  • NEW Specify the encryption style/mode for FTPS
  • NEW Confirm before deleting drive
  • FIXED .DS_Store files were sometimes getting stored on FTP servers
  • FIXED Fixed Release/Beta channel toggle
  • FIXED Remove random line across the Mac UI
  • FIXED Fixed dependency failure on Win2008
  • FIXED Default umask on SFTP is now 777 on both platforms
  • FIXED Fix blank UI issue
  • FIXED Fixed an issue where a drive could get stuck if you cancelled a password prompt
  • FIXED Fixed activating an expired trial

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3023 (Jun 11, 2013)

  • FIXED Fixed OSXFUSE runtime mismatch error on Mac
  • FIXED Fixed a compatibility issue where servers would not drop to a cleartext control channel.
  • FIXED Password saving bug on S3 for Mac is gone
  • FIXED S3 accounts with buckets in different regions now correctly supported
  • FIXED Trigger "Save change" on paste in UI
  • FIXED Won't reveal in Explorer until drive has been fully on Windows
  • FIXED Window maximize now correctly functioning on multi-mon Windows setups
  • FIXED EditPlus and Dreamweaver compatibility fixed
  • FIXED Much improved WebDAV compatibility, thanks for the test accounts everyone.
  • FIXED Correctly draw window border when shadows aren't enabled on Windows
  • FIXED Proxy detection for UI on Windows, clear up some activation errors
  • FIXED Over-agressive email validation for trial now gone
  • CHANGED S3/CloudFiles/Dropbox/Swift/Dream Objects all now report 16TB of free space
  • CHANGED Inform Windows that we are a case-sensitive filesystem
  • CHANGED Clear server field when changing drive type
  • NEW Updated Strongfuse fork use to OSXFUSE 2.5.6

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3022 (May 22, 2013)

  • Fixed: Fixed OSXFUSE runtime mismatch error on Mac
  • Fixed: Fixed a compatibility issue where servers would not drop to a cleartext control channel.
  • Fixed: Password saving bug on S3 for Mac is gone
  • Fixed: S3 accounts with buckets in different regions now correctly supported
  • Fixed: Trigger "Save change" on paste in UI
  • Fixed: Won't reveal in Explorer until drive has been fully on Windows
  • Fixed: Window maximize now correctly functioning on multi-mon Windows setups
  • Fixed: EditPlus and Dreamweaver compatibility fixed
  • Fixed: Much improved WebDAV compatibility, thanks for the test accounts everyone.
  • Fixed: Correctly draw window border when shadows aren't enabled on Windows
  • Fixed: Proxy detection for UI on Windows, clear up some activation errors
  • Fixed: Over-agressive email validation for trial now gone
  • Changeed: S3/CloudFiles/Dropbox/Swift/Dream Objects all now report 16TB of free space
  • Changeed: Inform Windows that we are a case-sensitive filesystem
  • Changeed: Clear server field when changing drive type
  • New: Updated Strongfuse fork use to OSXFUSE 2.5.6

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3021 Dev (May 9, 2013)

  • NEW Entirely new user interface.
  • NEW Added support for Dropbox! [Google Drive & Box coming soon]
  • NEW Added support for WebDAV and WebDAV over HTTPS.
  • NEW Added support for DreamObjects cloud storage.
  • NEW Added support for Rackspace Cloud Files.
  • NEW Added support for OpenStack Swift Storage.
  • NEW Context Menu Extension is now available for ExpanDrive mounted drives - use it to set permissions/ACLs on files for SFTP and S3.
  • NEW Support for S3 Multi-part uploads.
  • NEW All new S3 connection library, connection re-use, and more.
  • NEW Alternate S3 endpoints are now supported
  • NEW Dramatically improved metadata responsiveness for S3/Swift/DreamObjects/Rackspace
  • NEW Create S3/Swift/Cloud Files buckets from within ExpanDrive. Create a new folder in the drive root. If you create with
  • NEW Massive throughput increase for SFTP drives on Mac
  • NEW Huge improvements in meta-data cache, browsing much faster.
  • NEW Entirely new MSI based installer on Windows
  • NEW Command line connect/eject support. Run "expandrive.exe help" to get a list of available commands.
  • NEW Support for S3 uploads greater than 5GB
  • NEW ExpanDrive volumes are now represented as a network drive.
  • NEW Development channel for auto-updates. Get the bleeding edge!

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3020 Dev (May 7, 2013)

  • NEW Entirely new user interface.
  • NEW Added support for Dropbox! [Google Drive & Box coming soon]
  • NEWA dded support for WebDAV and WebDAV over HTTPS.
  • NEW Added support for DreamObjects cloud storage.
  • NEW Added support for Rackspace Cloud Files.
  • NEW Added support for OpenStack Swift Storage.
  • NEW Context Menu Extension is now available for ExpanDrive mounted drives - use it to set permissions/ACLs on files for SFTP and S3.
  • NEW Support for S3 Multi-part uploads.
  • NEW All new S3 connection library, connection re-use, and more.
  • NEW Alternate S3 endpoints are now supported
  • NEW Dramatically improved metadata responsiveness for S3/Swift/DreamObjects/Rackspace
  • NEW Create S3/Swift/Cloud Files buckets from within ExpanDrive. Create a new folder in the drive root. If you create with
  • NEW Massive throughput increase for SFTP drives on Mac
  • NEW Huge improvements in meta-data cache, browsing much faster.
  • NEW Entirely new MSI based installer on Windows
  • NEW Command line connect/eject support. Run "expandrive.exe help" to get a list of available commands.
  • NEW Support for S3 uploads greater than 5GB
  • NEW ExpanDrive volumes are now represented as a network drive.
  • NEW Development channel for auto-updates. Get the bleeding edge!

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3018 Dev (Apr 29, 2013)

  • FIXED - Fixed renaming on certain WebDAV endpoints
  • FIXED - UTF-8 decode issues in WebDAV
  • FIXED - Renaming files in side a folder on Dropbox

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3017 Dev (Apr 26, 2013)

  • NEW - Added support for Dropbox!
  • Fixed WebDAV and Swift connecting on alternate ports

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3016 Dev (Apr 25, 2013)

  • NEW - Added support for WebDAV and WebDAV over HTTPS.
  • NEW - Dramatically improved metadata responsiveness for S3/Swift/DreamObjects/Rackspace
  • FIXED - Fixed support for OpenStack Swift Storage. using swauth

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3015 Dev (Apr 25, 2013)

  • NEW - Added support for Rackspace Cloud Files.
  • NEW - Added support for OpenStack Swift Storage.
  • NEW - Create S3/Swift/Cloud Files buckets from within ExpanDrive. Create a new folder in the drive root. If you create with Finder or Explorer, create the default folder name and rename it.

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3014 Dev (Apr 25, 2013)

  • NEW - Added support for DreamObjects cloud storage.
  • NEW - Alternate S3 endpoints are now supported
  • FIXED - Symbolic links to directories outside out of the drive root work again.
  • FIXED - Small tweaks on expan tool

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3013 Dev (Apr 12, 2013)

  • NEW - Command line connect/eject/list support through 'expan' terminal utility. Install it from within settings.

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3010 Dev (Apr 3, 2013)

  • NEW - Context Menu injected into Finder to set ACLs and permission bits in SFTP and S3
  • CHANGED - Font sizing and buttons now are now the system defaults
  • FIXED - Respect custom ports
  • FIXED - Remove flicker at UI launch
  • FIXED - Install EXFS on systems missing it
  • FIXED - Accept hostkeys for new SFTP systems

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3009 Dev (Mar 26, 2013)

  • NEW - The dropdown menu attached to the menubar item is now back
  • CHANGED - Remove the path to add in a favorite without having connected
  • FIXED - Correctly respect only showing the drive manager at launch
  • FIXED - OS X10.6 32-bit mode support fixed

New in ExpanDrive 3.0.3008 Dev (Mar 21, 2013)

  • NEW - Keyboard shortcuts added/fixed.
  • NEW - Feedback button added.
  • NEW - Collapsing list display for smaller window size
  • NEW - Optionally add ExpanDrive in and out of the dock
  • NEW - Favorites format unified between mac and windows
  • NEW - Build number displayed in settings
  • FIXED - Status bar item now correctly toggle drive manager visibility.
  • FIXED - Clicking connect no longer creates a new drive in favorites when not intended.
  • FIXED - Show desktop settings toggle now respected.
  • FIXED - S3 drive password saving fixed.
  • FIXED - Custom drive names now respected from v2
  • FIXED - Strongspace drives now properly imported from v2

New in ExpanDrive 2.4.0 (Feb 1, 2013)

  • NEW Updated Filesystem driver
  • NEW Completely unified codebase with Mac client
  • NEW Installer now uninstalls previous version prior to upgrade
  • NEW Session logging available in help menu for debugging
  • NEW Improved support for OS X 10.8
  • NEW Much Faster Mounts/Unmounts
  • FIXED Issue with FTPS had been introduced in beta 1
  • FIXED Pageant sometimes failed to connect if a tmpdir wasn’t present
  • FIXED There was a dependency missing in the latest beta that is now included. Only effects some systems.
  • CHANGED Updated Filesystem Driver
  • CHANGED Much lighter distribution
  • CHANGED Internal update to Python 2.7

New in ExpanDrive 2.3.1 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • Now fully compatible with OS X Lion.

New in ExpanDrive 2.2.0 Beta (Feb 14, 2011)

  • Supports the 64-bit kernel [K64].

New in ExpanDrive 2.1.2 (Oct 20, 2010)

  • NEWStrongspace licensing works for SFTP drives connected directly to Strongspace
  • FIXED Certain FTP servers would not connect with the message 'Data connection failed'".

New in ExpanDrive 2.1.1 (Jun 11, 2010)

  • Fixed issue that caused FTP drives to fail connecting in 2.1.0

New in ExpanDrive 2.1.0 (Jun 10, 2010)

  • NEWStrongspace drive type for easy connection to ExpanDrive's upcoming Strongspace online storage service.
  • NEW All-new high-speed Amazon S3 connection engine that will drastically performance during transfers and while browsing.
  • NEWImprovements to ACL handling with S3 - Access-control policies on existing files are now preserved through modifications, including renames.
  • NEW Sequential polling in large directory structures to improve browsing performance in large trees
  • NEW S3 Files now have an r/w extended attribute named "com.expandrive.s3fs.ContentType" allowing access to set MIME-Type.
  • NEW Symbolic links are now emulated. When viewed in earlier versions of ExpanDrive, these will appear as empty directories; when viewed in other S3 browsers, they will appear as keys containing the link target.
  • NEW [Experimental] If a file has not been assigned a MIME content type, then when it is written back to S3, a content-type is inferred from the file's contents and its filename. The result can be overridden using the extended attribute.
  • NEW [Experimental] Experimental support for inheritable S3 ACLs on directory keys.
  • CHANGED Improved stability against temporary network errors
  • CHANGED Increased timeout for connection and slow operations
  • CHANGED Updated logging interface
  • CHANGED Updated to use Python 2.6.5 internally
  • CHANGED Updates to German, Dutch and Lithuanian localizations
  • CHANGED More robust handling of FTP servers with broken SSL implementations.
  • FIXED Fixed issue where ExpanDrive would occasionally not notice unmounted drives.
  • FIXED Fixed issue where ExpanDrive would not correctly clean-up its mount point.
  • FIXED Fixed a rare issue which could cause a stall launching ExpanDrive on Snow Leopard
  • FIXED Fixed a rare issue that could prevent a password from correctly being saved
  • FIXED Fixed an issue that could prevent automatic updates from being noticed
  • FIXED Several fixes to the FTP directory-listing parser.

New in ExpanDrive 2.0.6 (Sep 8, 2009)

  • Fixed an issue in 2.0.5 whereby passwords might not be restored correctly for some users.

New in ExpanDrive 2.0.5 (Sep 3, 2009)

  • Added support for Snow Leopard. Currently only 32-bit mode is supported until MacFUSE is updated.

New in ExpanDrive 2.0.4 (Aug 18, 2009)

  • Major fix providing a workaround for buggy servers that don't correctly rename across nested volumes. Certain programs such as CSSEdit would occasionally experience data loss.
  • Setting permissions via Finder's "Get Info" now works on Tiger and Snow Leopard [but not Leopard]
  • Updated Snow Leopard compatibility

New in ExpanDrive 2.0.4 Beta 1 (Aug 11, 2009)

  • Provides two major enhancements.
  • First – it allows you to set file permissions within Finder’s standard “Get Info” panel on Tiger and Snow Leopard. Unfortunately Leopard will not play nicely with this feature.
  • Also provides a “fix” for problem that a we’ve had reported with CSSEdit. In some rare circumstances, CSSEdit report that a file could not be saved (due to a server bug), but then delete the original file.

New in ExpanDrive 2.0.3 (Aug 8, 2009)

  • Preliminary Snow Leopard support.
  • Fixed support for PowerPC machines over SFTP.
  • Fixed major issue where after long periods of time contents of cached files could sometime get swapped.
  • Drive-type now displays in menubar drop down menu.
  • Allow remote paths which have the ~ character.
  • Better support for international characters in drivenames and paths.
  • Copy public S3 URL now correctly unescapes '/' characters.
  • Many updated localizations.
  • Better support for EU buckets in S3.
  • Flush orphaned data caches on ExpanDrive startup.

New in ExpanDrive 2.0.2 (May 29, 2009)

  • Major fix - fixed an edge case which could cause data corruption while writing data.
  • Fixes to support a wider range of FTP servers.
  • Smaller read-ahead block size - will likely boost browse speed in certain cases.
  • Localization updates+fixes.

New in ExpanDrive 2.0.1 (May 2, 2009)

  • Fixed major bug in SFTPv2 which caused a performance slowdown and occasional empty directory.
  • Fixed major bug with S3 which caused Finder to unlink certain files immediately after copy.
  • Increased certain timeouts in SFTP to deal with varying performance.
  • Added experimental support to correctly distinguish/convert between UTF-8 Normal Form C [Linux style] and UTF-8 Normal Form D [Mac style] to help decode of international characters.
  • Added Italian localization, updated Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, update Vietnamese translation -- please keep sending updates in, our free license offer stands!
  • Moved default cache directory to ~/Library/Caches/ExpanDrive.
  • Did away with the animated fade in/out of windows.
  • License files can now be dropped onto ExpanDrive in addition to being double click.
  • Added link to S3 drive panel for users to find their S3 Access Key.
  • Add hidden/unsupported/undocumented option to hide the Status Bar Item via "defaults write com.expandrive.ExpanDrive2 HideStatusBarItem -bool YES".

New in ExpanDrive 2.0.0 (Apr 22, 2009)

  • All new SFTP Layer!
  • 2x-3x speed boost transferring large files.
  • New metadata-caching architecture that is faster and more reliable. Works much better with large projects in applications like TextMate.
  • Experimental support to detect updates made on the server within ~20 seconds.
  • Utilizes OpenSSH to take advantage of Kerberos auth, public key auth, etc on Leopard.
  • Amazon S3 support!.
  • Access your Amazon S3 account like a filesystem, connecting to the root or an individual bucket.
  • Finder contextual menu plugin to set permissions on individial keys.
  • Refreshed GUI.
  • Many many enhancements to FTP/FTPS. It is no longer in beta.

New in ExpanDrive 1.3.4 (Jan 14, 2009)

  • Fixed a crash in 1.3.3 that could happen when reconnecting a drive. (We’re extremely sorry if you ran into this problem.)
  • Performance enhancements for FTP drives.
  • FTP Drives now connects correctly to even more servers that are even less standards compliant.
  • Fixed an issue where logins to anonymous FTP servers might stall if no password was specified
  • Improved localization support. When available, translations should now display correctly in the Drive Info panel. (Support for the Preferences window coming soon.)
  • Drive Names with accented or non-ASCII characters now work correctly. ExpanDrive should also run correctly when installed in a path that contains non-ASCII characters.
  • ExpanDrive will now work with Remote Paths that include spaces.

New in ExpanDrive 1.3.3 (Jan 14, 2009)

  • MacFUSE 2.0.3! Upgrading to MacFUSE 2 brings a number of important performance enhancements. Most notably, when files are changed on the server ExpanDrive will notice much more quickly. (We’re very excited about this.)
  • Updated preference pane with cleaner design and new registration tab
  • Support for FTP servers that don't properly negotiate an FTPS session
  • Improved compatibility with a number of other FTP servers.
  • Reliability improved with some programs that have inappropriate assumptions about when data will be written to disk. (Note to developers: you must explicitly flush or close your files before the data is guaranteed to be on disk.)
  • Volume icons should update more reliably in the Finder.
  • Bug fixes and performance enhancements.

New in ExpanDrive 1.3.2 (Nov 25, 2008)

  • New Features:
  • Global Drive Manager shortcut - you can now bind a global shortcut that brings forward the Drive Manager no matter what application you're in. This makes using ExpanDrive a mouse-free activity!
  • Drives will now be revealed in Finder upon connection unless disabled in preferences
  • Drives can now be duplicated in the Drive Manager
  • Ability to set up ExpanDrive as default SFTP/FTP client
  • Added Dutch, Swedish, and Simplified Chinese Localizations
  • GUI now responds to ftp:// and ftps:// URLs and can receive SFTP/FTP/FTPS urls that are dropped on it
  • Apple-f now brings focus to the filter bar in drive manager
  • SSH Channel keep-alives are now sent to ensure active connections
  • Fixes:
  • FTP compatibility dramatically improved
  • Updated the documentation to better reflect the 1.3 feature set & look
  • Support for iLife '08 and a number of other bug fixes
  • Much better MacFUSE installation detection & cleanup
  • Orphaned mount points in /Volumes are now much more aggressively cleaned up
  • Many small bug fixes and performance improvements.
  • Fixed a number of memory leaks
  • Applescript name matching on connect bug - fixes issues with the expan script

New in ExpanDrive 1.3.1 (Oct 15, 2008)

  • Improved FTP compatiblity. Now works with many drives that wouldn’t connect in 1.3.0.
  • The ‘drive name’ field of FTP drives is now correctly used as the mount point / volume name.
  • ftp drives now use ‘anonymous’ as their default username in FTP drives.
  • Drag and drop reordering of drives fixed.
  • AppleScript / command line connect command fixed.
  • Power PC compatibility for FTP drives.
  • Japanese & Spanish localizations [please send more! get free copies!]

New in ExpanDrive 1.3.0 (Oct 9, 2008)

  • FTP/FTPS Drives are now supported.
  • Reset the free trial period for all users.
  • Dramatically improved reconnect ability that detects changes in network state, sleep, wake, etc.
  • German, French, Danish and Romanian Localizations [please send more!].
  • Second appcast that allows users to subscribe to beta updates.

New in ExpanDrive 1.2.11 (Aug 28, 2008)

  • Experimental support for automatic cache flushing when using MacFUSE 1.9. This will help applications detect changes made to a file on the server.
  • Full support for localization!

New in ExpanDrive 1.2.10 (Aug 12, 2008)

  • Fixes for saving with MacVIM and Office 2004.
  • Increased compatibility with more Windows based SFTP servers.
  • Properly support drive nicknames with colons.

New in ExpanDrive 1.2.9 (Jul 18, 2008)

  • Update ExpanDrive to use MacFUSE 1.7
  • New Application Icon!
  • New Status Bar Icon!

New in ExpanDrive 1.2.8 (Jul 16, 2008)

  • Update ExpanDrive to use MacFUSE 1.7
  • New Application Icon!

New in ExpanDrive 1.2.6 (Jun 27, 2008)

  • Fix an issue with free space reporting on media temple gridservers that would prevent mounting
  • Modify the 'expan' shell script to work correctly with drives that have spaces in their name
  • Correctly map remote UID/GID in cases where the users home directory ownership doesn't match their username
  • Lower timeout for all operations to 40 seconds
  • Many small bug fixes and stability enhancements

New in ExpanDrive 1.2.1 (May 20, 2008)

  • This is a bug fix release
  • Free space checking is updated to fix an issue where some drives would show insufficient permissions and become inaccessible
  • Fix compatibility with VanDyke VShell through setting file attributes via handles instead of paths
  • Fixed a bug where the Drive Manager would not properly show up
  • Fixed a bug where the installer would sometimes fail an installation to non-administrator accounts

New in ExpanDrive 1.2 (May 13, 2008)

  • Free space now reported when the infromation is available
  • Drives can now be filtered through the addition of a search field
  • Public key handling is now properly supported, as is encrypted private keys
  • Updated help file

New in ExpanDrive 1.15 (May 7, 2008)

  • sftp:// URLs are now handled by ExpanDrive - sftp://username@server:port/path will add a session into the drive manager and make a connection
  • Easy control of ExpanDrive from the Terminal using the command 'expan'. It allows you to connect using simple commands like 'expan connect drive' or 'expan eject drive'. The command can be installed in General Preferences.
  • Fixed bug where "error: -36" would sometimes interrupt large transfers in Finder on high latency connections
  • Fixed bug which would require the user to enter admin credentials and then still fail a copy in certain situations
  • Auto update screen now displays correctly in all locales - some were seeing a all white screen previously
  • ExpanDrive now handles expandrivelicense:// style urls for registration
  • Drive Manager window position is now remembered between sessions
  • Many small bug fixes

New in ExpanDrive 1.1 (Apr 12, 2008)

  • Reconnect at Login - Drives can now be easily configured to automatically connect when you log into your account
  • Applescript support - Control ExpanDrive via applescript. More info here
  • Many GUI refinements: better drive status icons, table highlighting reflects whether window is key, prettier fonts when highlighted and other minor tweaks and alignments.
  • Symbolic links with relative paths now resolve correctly
  • Auto-update now correctly works in non-administrator accounts
  • SSH Keys are no longer used if a password is specified
  • Support enhancements for a variety of SFTP servers
  • Remap drive editing to Cmd-I to mirror Finder. Drive properties can now be viewed while drive is active.
  • Many small bug fixes

New in ExpanDrive 1.04 (Mar 20, 2008)

  • Improved meta data caching - helps things such as TextMate response time when it regains focus, especially with large projects
  • Symlinks with relative paths now supported
  • Error -2124 errors no longer happen when certain folders are copied on Tiger, though they will be missing resource fork data.
  • Action button now shows "New Drive" when no drive is selected
  • Recent drives menu can now be displayed in line, or as a submenu
  • Enhanced multi-preference pane with new options to configure and check auto-updater
  • Preference option to not open drive manager at program launch
  • Auto updater now checks daily, rather than at ExpanDrive startup
  • StuffIt Expander works properly and .sitx files can be unarchived
  • The drive manager now opens when the Expandrive is already running and the application package is double clicked
  • Re-ordering of menu options so drive manager comes first
  • Cmd-H key now correctly hides ExpanDrive
  • .ExpanDriveLicense files now have an icon
  • Many small bug fixes
  • Throughput enhancements