Snow Leopard Compatibility

• ExpanDrive 2.0.5 is now Snow Leopard compatible.

Please note ExpanDrive 2.0 is a paid upgrade from 1.x

• New SFTP Layer!
• 2x-3x speed boost transferring large files
• Amazon S3 support!
• Refreshed GUI
• 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.
• 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
• In line eject/show in finder buttons
• Customizable drive icons! You can even drop your own icons in to ~/Library/Application Support/ExpanDrive and we'll pick them up
• FTP/FTPS grows up
• Many many enhancements to FTP/FTPS. It is no longer in beta
• 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
• 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

New Features

• 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 standard.
• 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 Features

• 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.)
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• Improved compatibility with a number of 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.
• Fixed a crash in 1.3.3b6 that could happen to fresh installs when they first edited a drive.

Features and Fixes

• Updated preference pane with cleaner design and new registration tab
• Support for FTP servers that don't properly negotiate an FTPS session

• 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

• 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 Features

• Ability to set up ExpanDrive as default SFTP/FTP client
• FTP support improved with a number of servers.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Features & Fixes

• Feature: Added Dutch, Swedish, and Simplified Chinese Localizations
• Feature: Drives can now be duplicated in the Drive Manager
• Fix: Now works on PPC Machines again [oops]
• Fix: Much better MacFUSE installation detection & cleanup

Features & Fixes

• GUI can now receive SFTP/FTP/FTPS urls that are dropped on it
• Updated the documentation to better reflect the 1.3 feature set & look
• Support for iLife '08 and a number of other bug fixes
• Removed localized nibs that were causing trouble with FTP drives with the french language and the german language in preferences
• Updated some MacFUSE installation code - now using the unified 1.7 installer in prep for the 1.9 release

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!
• GUI now responds to ftp:// and ftps:// URLs
• Apple-f now brings focus to the filter bar in drive manager
• SSH Channel keep-alives are now sent to ensure active connections

Bug fixes

• Further Improved FTP compatibility -- Now works with many FTP drives that wouldn’t connect in 1.3.0 or 1.3.1.
• Orphaned mount points in /Volumes are now much more aggressively cleaned up
• Fixed a number of memory leaks
• Applescript name matching on connect bug - fixes issues with the expan script

Bug fixes

• 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!]

• Minor bug fixes from 1.3b1.

• The Software Update preferences now offer the option to subscribe to Beta updates. Expect many beta releases in the coming months.
• Major Addition: ftpfs. ExpanDrive now offers beta support for connecting to plain ftp and ftps servers.
• Greatly improved reconnect. ExpanDrive now knows when your internet disappears or your computer goes to sleep, and will take steps to actively manage the connection.
• The free trial period will automatically be reset for each major version upgrade, and features 80% less nagging.