Nice looking or not, ExpanDrive 7 is definitely faster than ever. And I admit being fond of not often found smooth aesthetically pleasing layouts. The interface providing most relevant information does lack refinement of font-type and layout, although I do understand it all comes down to personal taste. ‘Connected and connecting’ visuals are not nicely placed. Automatic or manual “Check for Updates” button is placed in Settings.Īlthough the new UI is more visually pleasing, there’s lack of visual feedback when hovering on icons which could be improved in new versions. You can adjust the width of the Connections pane easily to support volumes with long nicknames. Just select a file and use the right mouse click toped a small menu with selectable options. There’s even shareable link support for services like Google Drive.( see image below ) The new updated user interface introduces a built-in file browser allowing users to view, download, rename, move, or delete without mounting services in the Finder.
Easily access older versions of files on cloud storage backends that support versioning, including Box, Dropbox, S3, Google Drive, OneDrive and Sharepoint.If a user is editing an Office document, other users will only be able to open that document read-only until the editing user closes it. ExpanDrive now propagates lock files in Microsoft Office documents across the cloud.The integrated storage browser has additional support for blazing-fast server side search. Quickly search your remote storage for whatever you’re looking for. Other files are accessed on-demand from the cloud, taking no disk space.ĮxpanDrive hooks into Spotlight Search on Mac and Windows file search. Synchronization to the cloud takes place automatically when you’re back online. ExpanDrive 7 for Mac adds cloud storage like Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, SFTP (SSH), Box, OneDrive and Sharepoint to Finder and Explorer.Ĭhoose files for offline access and work without an internet connection.In August of 2009 we acquired Strongspace from Joyent and have been developing it since. Some of our earliest customers used SFTPDrive to connect to the Strongspace online storage service.
We had always wanted to start a company whose goal was to make great software that solved difficult technical problems. We relocated to Boston to work on our first product, SFTPDrive- A fast network filesystem for Windows that could mount SFTP. Dave, Jeff and Jonathan started ExpanDrive in a Stanford University dorm in 2004 right before completing our degrees in Computer Science.
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