ExpanDrive

We’ve just released ExpanDrive 2.1.0! To upgrade you can use our auto updater in the Preferences tab for Software Update or download and install by hand.

This release brings a major improvement to our S3 engine. It is a near-complete rewrite with a new high-speed connection engine that will really boost performance for most users. Large files still take time to transfer, but browsing and interacting with S3 is even better. We’ve also fixed a variety of of small bugs and made a number of small but meaningful improvements.

In addition ExpanDrive 2.1.0 adds a Strongspace drive type for our upcoming online storage service. Keep your eye on this blog for more info about Strongspace coming soon.

This is a great update and we highly recommend you install it.

• 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.