Cost, Ease of use, it just does what it is supposed to do, Great product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing, you can't dislike a product that works Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The support guys are really helpful & responsive. They are clearly having a lot of challenges around the new launch though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Its inability to work. Version 6 has been loaded onto my computer about 6 times now (I was looking for some irony there but it didn't work, just like the software). Despite a lot of help from the support desk it will just not work consistently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I initially liked the idea of login into multiple cloud storage accounts i use without having an advserse effect on my device memory but the connection to the cloud storage is just too slow. It is so slow that it is actually more a pain to use it than to just log online and get the file i need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The slowness of the connection to the file storage is just a big pain. I was told by Expandrive customer service that files have to be opened once to be listed faster and previewed. But even with files already opened once with the application, the listing of files is slow and preview nearly inexistent.
You cannot create folders in Dropbox using Expandrive as it turns the folders into exec files. I have lost 6 folders like that. The product is just not ready, at least for Mac. I don't know about windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sorry for the bad experience you had, we'd love to make this right. If you're at all interested in testing our new 6.0 release and have any patience left, please reach out to jmancuso@expandrive.com and we'll make sure we set this right.
After an problem with my old version of ExpanDrive, i contacted the company via facebook and received almost immediately an response which leads to an free upgrade to the newest version. The newest version solved my problem so i'm thankful for the upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Maybe some faster response via mail, that was the reason why i contacted the team via facebook in the first place. An automated notice of arrival would be a start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Expandrive makes it very easy to mount remote sftp accounts as local shared drives. I've tried using some open source tools to mount sftp drives but they really didn't work or were really slow. Expandrive seems to have solved these issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I've been using Expandrive for many years but it seems like it's not as reliable as it once was. It's not uncommon if I'm working out of a drive all day to be disconnected several times and frequently it doesn't pick up that I've saved a file. Instead I have to resave a second time, wait a few seconds and then I'll see the change live remotely. It also doesn't always pick up on changes that have happened remotely. For instance if I'm SSHed into a server that I'm also connected to with expandrive and delete or create a new folder Expandrive may not see that it's changed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I'm an Amazon Web Services trainer and my students often ask me about being able to mount Amazon S3 as a drive. I explain that this is not an "out-of-the-box" feature of Amazon S3, but can be achieved with some 3rd-party products. I then demonstrate ExpanDrive and their eyes go wide!
It works very well for reading and writing data on Amazon S3. I haven't tried the other services (eg DropBox, Google Drive). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
ExpanDrive can't do everything with Amazon S3. For example, it cannot rename directories that have files in them. However, this is a result of the limitations of S3 (since it doesn't allow renaming of directories, either). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Transfers through Expandrive feel about as responsive as using a native client.Also the convenience of having the connections show as tabs in Explorer made moving files to the server quick and easy.Apps with no knowledge of FTP can now directly open and access files on any server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The cost feels a bit high for what it does, but if you spend a lot of time working on servers then that ease of use and time saved will rapidly pay for itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Very easy to setup and little customization required. Ideal for network file sharing and editing. Interface is setup so to mimick your current OS, giving the idea the files are on the machine itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Expandrive is always connected which may not be ideal if you want to keep information private from users on your device. Syncronisation issues if two users remotely access same file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Unlimited simultaneous FTP connections; great front-end for FTP servers. Can be less expensive option than cloud storage. Connections can be made within programs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Not as good for collaboration as cloud storage options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As a developer that works a lot with remote linux servers, this little tool has made my life easier. I can use my local applications (i.e. favorite editors, etc) to open or edit files on remote servers. It's also really seamless to transfer files. The remote server is accessible just like a USB drive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It only available for Mac. It's also not free, but not expensive for the productivity gained by using this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.