Expandrive 2.0 - Network Drive Woes solved!

There's just not enough storage for anybody these days. In a multimedia world of music, HD movies, 15MP cameras and more, storage is a concern and consumers are always on the look out for more ways to store their digital creations. On the Mac, the finder makes connecting to network storage locations accessible by loading them onto the sidebar. By clicking on them, you have to connect to the file share server. Theoretically this should also work with FTP/SFTP shares by entering the username and password in the path to the folder and then access the files. However accessing secure share FTP and SFTP shares on the fnder has always been a pipe dream so far. In today's world where cloud computing and cloud storage especially has become an integral part of our digital life, it is a pain to allow the finder to locate the share and then mount it and connect to it. What Expandrive allows you to do is to use your FTP/SFTP or your Amazon S3 storage space as a hard drive and work with files on it live and edit and save them. Your network drives or FTP servers can now act just like another USB drive.

 With Expandrive just mount your network storage devices or FTP/SFTP servers as a USB drive and go crazy with the data on it. As with the best Mac apps out there, Expandrive is a breeze to use. In fact once you start using it you just cannot live without it.

To start, you need to install Expandrive which after installation loads up on the Mac menubar and presents you with controls to setup your network shares and access other Expandrive settings. From the Add Drive menu you can select whether you want to add an FTP or SFTP server or the newly included Amazon S3 storage server. After that it is just a matter of entering in the settings such as the user access credentials for logging into the server and from then on Expandrive takes over.