The Finder just isn’t a very good FTP client any way you slice it. I’d highly recommend it to folks who don’t quite “get” the Finder and therefore have little hope in understanding FTP, but I’m afraid I’m just not seeing anything worth registering for myself. It’s kinda cool, but most of the heavy lifting seems to be done by either Google or a Python library, so I have to wonder: what parts did they actually write and what portion of the profits will they be contributing to those projects they depend upon? This would be extremely useful for times when I’m repeatedly exporting and uploading image slices from an Adobe app, but I’m still finding myself reaching for a regular old FTP client for everything else (especially since the Finder can’t do tabs). If it’s not in the app bundle then the documentation shouldn’t claim that all we need to do to uninstall is trash the app.

Obviously not a problem with ExpanDrive, but a problem nonetheless since that was one of the main attractions for me.ĥ) Where does it stick its MacFUSE installation? Nobody else can find it when it’s done, and I don’t see it in the app bundle. If you want the service itself to be faceless then have a separate configuration app which is not so it behaves correctly.Ĥ) Opening medium sized folders in TextMate beachballs hard. Either get rid of the windows or get rid of the LSUIElement property on the application. If I switch applications and bury the thing there’s no way to get it frontmost again. This has become a problem for me several times.ģ) Why does the application not have a dock icon if it puts up windows? This makes as much sense as the misused group box in the preferences dialog (it’s actually worse than it appears if you poke through the. Still have to SSH in if you want to make a backup of your docroot or /etc.Ģ) No refresh button. Some other issues I’ve noticed in testing:ġ) Zipping a folder through the Finder is intolerably slow as it seems to download everything before it even puts up the progress bar, then re-uploads as it goes.

I realize that might not be possible, but it’s what I want nonetheless. I know that I can make the Finder show all the hidden files, but I don’t want to see every single one, just those that are on the SFTP mount.

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