ExpanDrive Blog

ExpanDrive for Windows v2.2

Jeff Mancuso October 18th, 2011

ExpanDrive v2.2 brings a bunch of small new features plus one important bug fix.

FIXEDFixed issue leading some editors to incorrectly detect new file changes
NEWBasic command line interface for connect and eject
NEWUpdated Filesystem driver [reboot required to finish install]
NEWSecure HTTP [HTTPS] is now the default transport mechanism for Amazon S3
NEWUsername prompting when not saved with the drive
NEWFull support for multi-stage keyboard interactive and multi-factor authentication
NEWSupport directory listing masks [*.txt;*.pdf etc]

To connect a drive via the commandline:

expandrive.exe connect drive_nickname expandrive.exe connect drive_servername

To eject a drive via the commandline:

expandrive.exe eject drive_nickname expandrive.exe eject drive_servername

Old versions and full release notes here. Please send all support questions to support@expandrive.com

Joseph

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.