Developer(s) ExpanDrive, Inc Written in Python | Development status Active Available in English | |
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Stable release 5.4.5 (February 3, 2017; 29 days ago (2017-02-03)) [±] Operating system | ||
ExpanDrive is a distributed file system client for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows that facilitates mapping of local volume to many different types of Cloud Storage. When a server is mounted with ExpanDrive any program can read, write, and manage remote files (that is, files that only exist on the server) as if they were stored locally. This is different from most File Transfer Clients because it is integrated into all applications on the operating system. It also does not require a file to be downloaded to access portions of the content. ExpanDrive is commercial software. A 7-day, unrestricted demo is available for evaluation.
ExpanDrive uses a custom FUSE implementation as its file system implementation layer on the Mac and Windows. ExpanDrive is Python based.
History
SftpDrive was the original version of ExpanDrive for Microsoft Windows. It was commercial software with a 6-week trial.
ExpanDrive 2 was released on June 21, 2011 adding support for plain FTP, Amazon S3 and a new ExpanDrive service named Strongspace Online Storage. ExpanDrive2 included a rewritten SFTP engine which lay the groundwork for a unified Mac and Windows code base.
Version 2.4, released in January 2013 was the first version to be released simultaneously for Windows and Mac.
ExpanDrive 3 was released on May 14, 2013 with a new user-interface and support for more drive types such as Dropbox, OpenStack, Rackspace and WebDAV.
ExpanDrive 4 was released on June 12, 2014 with dramatically faster access. ExpanDrive 4 also added support for Microsoft OneDrive, Copy.com, HP Helion Cloud, Owncloud and hubiC.
Expandrive 5 was released on June 15, 2015 with a near-total rewrite of its core functionality.