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ExpanDrive

Map or Mount Amazon Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, SFTP, WebDAV, S3 and more as a Network Drive. Seamless access to files without sync.

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Cost / License

  • Free Personal
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
2.0
Poor9 reviews
47likes
15comments

Features

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Integrations

  1. MEGA icon  MEGA
  2. Dropbox icon  Dropbox
  3. Finder icon  Apple Finder
  4. Microsoft Active Directory icon  Active Directory
  5.  Openstack swift
  6. Microsoft OneDrive icon  Onedrive
  7. Google Drive icon  Google Drive

Features

  1. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
  2.  Mounting drives
  3.  Sync with Amazon Drive
  4.  Sync with Google Drive
  5. Amazon Simple Storage Service icon  Support for Amazon S3
  6.  SSH
  7. Dropbox icon  Sync with Dropbox
  8.  Support for FTP
  9.  Virtual filesystem
  10.  Upload directly to Mega
  11.  Support for SFTP
  12. Microsoft OneDrive icon  Sync with Onedrive

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  • Norton reviewed ExpanDrive  

    All the negative reviews here are ears old so I thought I'd give ExpanDrive a test run Running Mac Sonoma 14.4.1 (23E224).

    Regrettably I uninstalled it within 10 minutes.

    It first 'mapped a drive' - if that's the correct term, and added a link to my sidebar. It asked me to click 'Enable', which I did. After that - nothing. Literally nothing. No GUI. no toolbar. Nothing in sight, or hidden, to configure the damn thing. A complete waste of time, unfortunately.

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: ExpanDrive faces criticism for its instability, slow performance, and unreliable features, with users reporting frequent disconnections and bugs. Support issues are prevalent, with difficulties in contacting customer service and resolving problems. The update policy is controversial, pushing users to pay for bug fixes. Despite these drawbacks, some users appreciate the ability to mount cloud storage as a drive, though alternatives like Cyberduck or FireFTP are recommended.
Top Negative Comment
msieracki
7

This app is a useless! It's unstable, loses connection after few minutes, doesn't work as expected.

Norton
0

All the negative reviews here are ears old so I thought I'd give ExpanDrive a test run Running Mac Sonoma 14.4.1 (23E224).

Regrettably I uninstalled it within 10 minutes.

It first 'mapped a drive' - if that's the correct term, and added a link to my sidebar. It asked me to click 'Enable', which I did. After that - nothing. Literally nothing. No GUI. no toolbar. Nothing in sight, or hidden, to configure the damn thing. A complete waste of time, unfortunately.

Doomrevx
-2

Bad software, better use other alternatives. Bought perpetual license, found bug with SFTP (streaming doesn't working at all MP3,FLAC,etc) which makes impossible to use this soft for me. They know about bug and doesn't fix it in 6 months. And this bug still in latest release.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
Muhammad Ali
-1

I installed this app on my Mac in order to be able to access and change files on Amason S3.

I added our credentials, it mounted a folder but it is just empty. Via AWS web interface I see that it's defiantly not empty. The App doesn't seem to tell you if it failed to connect for any reason. You can insert whatever credentials and it provides zero feedback and still shows as it mounted a drive in Finder.

This App is ULTRA buggy, I don't know why anyone would pay for it. If you drag this app from one screen to another connected screen the whole UI goes blank. The app doesn't appear in the top bar mac navigation when opened and focused so you can't close it fully without force quiting it and all attached services to uninstall it.

This app is pure garbage.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
GreatBazunka
0

I was looking all over for things to transfer some data from an old server to the cloud. Since microsoft azure does not support server 2008 R2 i had to find an alternative. ExpanDrive is the only alternative that i could find that would mount an alternate cloud storage provider in Windows Server 2008 R2 as a network drive. ExpanDrive worked fast and smooth to allow me to synchronize my files to the cloud storage provider. A real life saver in a touch situation.

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Chris Bresnehan
-2

Do not buy!

Does not work as advertised, no support and no chance of a refund.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
JamesMount
3

Created an account on alternativeTo just to leave a review of this software. I purchased at full price and when I began to use found that it was not installed correctly: the options to sync to local storage was not activated in Windows Explorer. After over an hour with the very poor technical support (multiple reinstalls, changes to registry etc.) I requested a refund. It seems I was two hours over their policy of "no refunds after one month". This decision, by the way, was given to me over a month after my enquiry. May work for you but I would not trust my files to a company or developer that operates with these ethics. Look elsewhere.

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What is ExpanDrive?

ExpanDrive is a Network file system client for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows that facilitates mapping of local volume to any SFTP server the user can access. It also can connect to FTP, Amazon S3, RackSpace Cloud Files, OpenStack Swift Object Storage, DreamObjects, WebDAV, Dropbox, Google Drive and Box.com. 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.

Map your SSH server as a Windows drive letter over SFTP with ExpanDrive. ExpanDrive connects your Windows desktop to your Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X server files through the industry-standard in security, SFTP and SSH.

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ExpanDrive information

  • Developed by

    US flagExpanDrive, Inc.
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free Personal product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $50 and $75.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 15 comments and reviews about ExpanDrive, and it has gotten 47 likes

ExpanDrive was added to AlternativeTo by TobiasSundstrand on and this page was last updated . ExpanDrive is sometimes referred to as SftpDrive