Update: WebDrive 9.00
WebDrive is a piece of software in the vein of SftpDrive and RedDrive, but more powerful.
Version 9.00 is now available. Although the version bump suggests a major release, it isn’t really the case, as this version only packs a handful of bug/security fixes and a few improvements, mostly related to Amazon S3 support.
exe installer, 6.55MB, MD5 sum: D04F5325CD8D9832E01D36ABD8F0B110
64-bit version: Download WebDrive 9.00 (x64)
exe installer, 10.2MB, MD5 sum: B461C40E6B0971AF94FA1B7A47B101B6
- New: Support for Amazon S3 COPY command to use for renaming files and folders. The folder rename still requires a copy command to be sent to the server for all files in the folder.
- New: Directory Change notification support. When enabled on the site properties/file settings dialog tab WebDrive will support the Windows change notification feature that Windows explorer signs up for when displaying the contents of a folder. WebDrive will poll the server to see if the directory has changed on the server and if a change is detected it will cause explorer to refresh it’s contents. This works well for protocols that support reporting the modified time of a folder on the server, like WebDAV and SFTP. This may not be very effecient for FTP servers that do not support the MLST command.
- New: SFTP FIPS support.
- Fixed: Performance improvement when right clicking on files or folders in explorer which gets rid of long delays with no activity.
- Fixed: Directory caching issue that would result in the directory not refreshing when it became invalid due to it being out of date with the listing on the server.
- Fixed: If a persistent connection (connect at login) can’t connect during login then don’t display error dialog and don’t prompt for username/password as this can interfere with the vista login. Instead the drive will show up with a red X icon and when the user clicks on the drive it will attempt to connect again. This can also be beneficial to wireless installations where the network may not be established at login time.
- Fixed: For FTP servers fixed a rename problem when using UTF8 encoding, the destination file name was not being encoded in UTF8.
- Fixed: Potential security vulnerability, removed permission on WebDrive service that would allow a change configuration command.