ExpanDrive

Unfortunately, with v2.2 SFTP is still slow as hell compared to v1.8.4, no improvements at all in that area. Oh, by the way, I found out in the meantime what the weird “The supplied user buffer is not compatible.” error message that TrueCrypt spills out means: Turns out that I was trying to open a symbolic link (the kind that you can create with the “ln” command in the Unix console) to a TrueCrypt archive instead of the actual file – the old v1.8.4. always resolved symbolic links properly (as one would naturally expect in an Unix enviroment), the new v2.x line apparently does some weird things. Long story short: For the people that mentioned the somewhat significant SFTP-problems with the new v2.x line in earlier blog postings, there is still no improvement… :-(

Thanks for update! I still hope that the Windows version will get some speed updates, because it’s still the slowest FTP/SFTP program I’ve used

2.2 still have the issue regarding “Fixed issue leading some editors to incorrectly detect new file changes “.

I’m using Windows 7 with a SFTP-share (Expandrive 2.2) for editing PHP-files in notepad++. The server is a standard debian installation with: “OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010″

Regards, Jim

Forgot to mention that the rest of the computer is encypted using Truecrypt – but it shouldn’t affect SFTP-drives, should it?

Still having issues anyway. Notepad++ 5.9.2 is used as a editor.

Be sure to reboot after upgrade – it’s unfortunately required to fix this

With ExpanDrive 2.x, You should be giving licence for 1.8. It is definitely the best version of ExpanDrive, that ever came out. I just downloaded 2.2 to test if is it still slow and it is ages from 1.8.

It’s much faster in the general case or lost users. Can you email us with any specifics if you haven’t already?

I made a quick file copying test to compare speeds and 1.8 was faster by a small margin (4:20 versus 4:50). That is not bad, but it is not improvement. I was copying 238 files in 246 folders (php code with svn repository data). I use NetBeans to browse files on remote drives and new version just feels slower, but I’ll give it another try.

Are there plans to improve the command line? For example, there is no way to eject a drive without knowing which server it is connected to. I often connect to groups of servers (all servers in a WebLogic cluster, for example) so I have reserved drives K: through T: for this. If one or more of these drive letters are already in use, there is no way for me to automatically disconnect the existing hosts. Under ExpanDrive 1.8 I could just “net use X: /delete” without knowing the name of the host the X: drive was connected to.

We can do this – will you ping support@expandrive.com with the request, if you haven’t already

ExpanDrive v2 is most definitely a LOT slower than v1.8 series for Windows. Although we can beat around the bush that v2 makes the experience faster for few/some people, it also makes the experience absolutely dreadful for others (myself included). ExpanDrive has (had…?) a great thing going and one of the concepts behind its success was that it “just works” – fast. Unfortunately, after v2.0, 2.1.x, and now v2.2 it still doesn’t “just work”, it’s dreadfully slow and not only that it’s not stable.

Thanks for listening. I really do hope there will be a fix to this issue, because in all honesty this release was pretty lousy. It doesn’t do its core function FTP/SFTP, exceptionally well.