I’m proud to announce that ExpanDrive 3 has been released. Many thanks to those who participated in the public beta and development process. ExpanDrive 3 sports a beautiful new user-interface and support for many more drive types such as Dropbox, OpenStack, Rackspace and WebDAV. Everything you already love has been improved. Download ExpanDrive 3 from our website or from the auto-updater within ExpanDrive. This update is available to all existing customers for $19.95 through the end of May and free to try out for 1 week. Those who purchased in 2013 are being upgraded automatically for free.

New Drive Types

Awesome new UI

Along with everything you see here, development continues on support for other providers such as Google Drive, Box.com and Microsoft SkyDrive. We post regular updates on our Facebook page and this blog if you’re interested in staying up to date.

ExpanDrive 3 Development build 3018 is out, fixing a couple import bugs with international filenames and renaming files on WebDAV and Dropbox.

Please send all feedback to support@expandrive.com rather than leaving a blog comment.

Windows – Download and Release notes
Mac – Download and Release notes

• FIXEDFixed renaming on certain WebDAV endpoints
• FIXEDUTF-8 decode issues in WebDAV
• FIXEDRenaming files in side a folder on Dropbox

ExpanDrive 3 Development build 3017 integrates support for Dropbox! Now you can directly mount Dropbox as a network drive and access all of your files without needing to sync everything down. This is great if you have a large Dropbox and and limited space on your PC. It also let’s you have native access to multiple Dropbox’s on a single machine, something not possible with the official client.

Please send all feedback to support@expandrive.com rather than leaving a blog comment.

Windows – Download and Release notes
Mac – Download and Release notes

• NEWAdded support for Dropbox!
• fixedFixed WebDAV and Swift connecting on alternate ports

ExpanDrive 3 Development build 3016 adds yet another highly requested feature – WebDAV. WebDAV is a very popular protocol used to help power Microsoft Sharepoint and a raft of other online storage services such such as iDisk/Mobile Me and Golden Frog Dumptruck, one of our favorites.

While Mac and Windows both have built in support for WebDAV it’s usually quite slow and clunky. We’ve given WebDAV the ExpanDrive treatment – extremely fast and reliable. That being said, this support is still fairly new and will likely need some revisions to improve compatibility across the wide variety of WebDAV implementations in the wild.

Please send all feedback to support@expandrive.com rather than leaving a blog comment.

Windows – Download and Release notes
Mac – Download and Release notes

• NEWAdded support for WebDAV and WebDAV over HTTPS.
• NEWDramatically improved metadata responsiveness for S3/Swift/DreamObjects/Rackspace
• fixedFixed support for OpenStack Swift Storage. using swauth

ExpanDrive 3 Development build 3015 finally builds in support for two often requested drive types – Rackspace Cloud Files and OpenStack Swift. Cloud Files is a popular S3-like durable storage platform run by RackSpace. It is built from the OpenStack Swift project, a very popular solution for deploying a S3-like type storage on premise or as part of a service offering.

ExpanDrive connects scale-out storage platforms like Swift and CEPH to existing solutions, apps and infrastructure. Out of the box Swift and CEPH are products designed to be access via an API, not terrifically useful if you’re trying to migrate off a big iron NetApp Filer. ExpanDrive maps this API to so that it looks and feels just like a USB drive that is accessible from within any application on Mac, Windows [and soon, Linux].

Please send all feedback to support@expandrive.com rather than leaving a blog comment.

Windows – Download and Release notes
Mac – Download and Release notes

• NEWAdded support for Rackspace Cloud Files.
• NEWAdded support for OpenStack Swift Storage.
• NEWCreate 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.

ExpanDrive 3 build 3014 adds support for Dream Host DreamObjects Cloud storage. DreamObjects is a fantastic cloud storage platform built on top of CEPH, an open source S3-like object store built by Inktank. DreamHost is one of the biggest and most popular website hosting platforms around and is currently running a DreamObjects promo for storage and bandwidth for $0.03/GB, awesome pricing.

With ExpanDrive for DreamObjects you can take what is normally only accesible via API and mount it just like a USB drive in Finder or Windows Explorer. ExpanDrive makes DreamObjects and CEPH available inside every Mac and PC application.

Along with DreamObjects/CEPH support ExpanDrive now supports alternate S3 endpoints. You can use this to connect to alternate S3 regions or other S3-like storage.

Please send all feedback to support@expandrive.com rather than leaving a blog comment.

Windows – Download and Release notes
Mac – Download and Release notes

• NEWAdded support for DreamObjects cloud storage.
• NEWAlternate S3 endpoints are now supported
• FIXEDSymbolic links to directories outside out of the drive root work again.
• FIXEDSmall tweaks on expan tool

Build 3013 is now available for Mac and Windows. It adds command line support for connecting and ejecting drives. This is designed as a convenience for power users as well as to facilitate control from scripts and other programs. On the Mac client there is a separate terminal utility named ‘expan’ contained within the bundle that you can install from within the Settings tab. On Windows just run expandrive.exe with the parameters. Run the “help” command for a listing of what is available.

Please send all feedback to support@expandrive.com

Windows – Download and Release notes
Mac – Download and Release notes

• NEWCommand line connect/eject/list support through ‘expan’ terminal utility on Mac and through ExpanDrive.exe on Windows.

Build 3011 for Windows is now available for download and via the ExpanDrive 3 auto-updater. Like last week’s Mac build, we’ve added context menus into Explorer so you can actually set ACLs on S3 and set permission bits on SFTP etc. We’ll be adding other options here in the future as well, such as getting a shareable URL and bucket creation for S3. We have also spent a lot of time refining the UI in response to great feedback, keep it coming.

Access the menu via right clicking any file or folder in Explorer


Toggle properties based on the file and drive type

Download and Release notes

• NEWWindows Explorer Context Menu Extension is now available for ExpanDrive mounted drives – use it to set permissions/ACLs on files for SFTP and S3.
• NEWInstaller wrapped in a .exe bootstrapper.
• CHANGEDIcons updated & resized, frame moved to edges, right click disabled in Window UI, many other visual tweaks
• FIXEDWindow Border now correctly drawn on Win8

Build 3010 for Mac is now available for download and via the ExpanDrive 3 auto-updater. The big new feature is we’re injecting context menus into Finder so you can actually set ACLs on S3 and set permission bits on SFTP etc. We’ll be adding other options here in the future as well, such as getting a shareable URL and bucket creation for S3.

An ExpanDrive sub-menu will now appear on ExpanDrive volumes

Toggle permission bits, set ACLs, and more soon

Download and Release notes

• NEWContext Menu injected into Finder to set ACLs and permission bits in SFTP and S3
• CHANGEDFont sizing and buttons now are now the system defaults
• FIXEDRespect custom ports
• FIXEDRemove flicker at UI launch
• FIXEDInstall EXFS on systems missing it
• FIXEDAccept hostkeys for new SFTP systems

Build 3009 for Mac is now available for download and via the auto-updater.

Please send all feedback to support@expandrive.com

Download and Release notes

• NEWThe dropdown menu attached to the menubar item is now back
• CHANGEDRemove the path to add in a favorite without having connected
• FIXEDCorrectly respect only showing the drive manager at launch
• FIXEDOS X10.6 32-bit mode support fixed