ExpanDrive 1.3.2 is a highly recommended bug fix release, fixing many FTP compatibility issues as well as SFTP stability. For anyone who was trouble connecting to a specific FTP server, please give this release a try. If there are any remaining problems, we’ll sort them out!

In addition, there are also some small new features to increase usability.

Release notes are below, or here as always.

    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!
• 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

    Fixes

• 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

This bug-fix release is now available on the auto updater and the ExpanDrive website. As always, release notes are here.

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For Windows users who saw Cosmo’s Turn Your iPhone 3g into a Wireless Hard Drive and were wondering how to do the same thing on Windows, check out a good post from David Learns Games. It describes in detail how to accomplish the same task using SftpDrive on Windows, and also enters quite a bit of detail about how to setup the networking and get your phone configured [ample screenshots]. This could come in useful if you’re having any trouble making Cosmo’s instructions work using your Mac.