When that happens, there’s no way to disable it, short of force quitting and manually removing the offending service from a preference file.Įven when the edit option is available, you can’t adjust the width of the Connections pane, so volumes with long nicknames overlap buttons on the right-hand side. That may not sound like a big deal until a connection becomes unresponsive due to spotty internet or service outage.

Once a connection is mounted, for example, there’s no way to edit it without unmounting. There’s even shareable link support for services like Google Drive.ĮxpanDrive 7 is an iterative upgrade, but a step back in several ways.

The revamped user interface introduced a built-in file browser allowing users to view, download, rename, move, or delete without mounting services in the Finder.

New look, new problemsĮxpanDrive 6 ditched the traditional compact user interface in favor of a free-floating, expandable window opened by clicking a familiar menu bar icon that clutters the top of your screen. It installs a lot of different files on your system and you'll have to get rid of them to if your removing the program.ĭespite these two minor drawbacks, ExpanDrive is a perfect example of what can be achieved with MacFUSE, access to remote folders in a snap.The built-in file browser in ExpanDrive 7 makes it a snap to use multiple cloud or network-attached volumes without mounting them on the desktop. ExpanDrive also lacks proper explanations as to how it can be uninstalled. On the downside, ExpanDrive tends to leave behind '.DS_Store' files in your remote server, which you'll have to remove afterwards, if you want to keep your folders tidy. The most impressive thing about ExpanDrive is how responsive it is, making you almost forget that you're working on remote files. Files opened from a Subversion (SVN) can be edited straight from ExpanDrive using the built-in SVN commands from any text editor.

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