ExpanDrive’s low latency and reliability put. That’s always been a huge annoyance for me using the remote file editing features in standalone file transfer apps.Īs a remote network protocol, it works better in the Finder than anything I’ve ever used on Mac OS X - far more responsive than WebDAV or AFP, both of which, for me, have always been one-way tickets to Beachball City. If you open remote files checked out of an SVN (or other revision control system) repository, you can use the built-in SVN commands in BBEdit or TextMate, just as though the files were part of a repository checked out on your local drive. You don’t have to worry about uploading or downloading, it works more like a USB flash drive - you just save and open files directly. Magnetk, the company behind ExpanDrive, has a similar product for Windows called SftpDrive that’s been around for a while.įor many typical tasks, ExpanDrive is far more convenient and seamless than a standalone client like Interarchy or Transmit. I’ve never seen anything like it for the Mac. I’ve been using ExpanDrive for a week and it is extremely impressive. I also have an iPad for example, I use the GDrive client to download the PDFs and open it in Adobe's Reader.ExpanDrive 1.01 is a new $29 file system extension for Mac OS X, based in part on MacFUSE, 1 that lets you mount SFTP servers as volumes in the Finder. But I don't want to encrypt the PDFs in my technical books collection, because I want those PDFs to be accessible from anywhere. What I like about this approach is that I don't want all files to be encrypted, only my documents, certificates, licenses and so on. Just make sure you pick a strong encryption password.

I'm on Ubuntu and in Ubuntu it's easy to create an Encfs volume with the Gnome Encfs Manager. I have an encrypted EncFS volume that I keep in Google Drive and it has been working really well, being synced between 3 computers. You can do client-side encryption with Dropbox or Google Drive, nothing is stopping you from doing it.

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