![]() ![]() It works very well, much better than v6, however, the odd behaviour you describe does keep happening intermittently. I’ve been using v7 for a little while now as well, connected to OneDrive though, and have been noting the same thing. This may be happening if your computer hasn’t been in use for a while? Reply If your internet connection drops out or your computer goes to sleep, it does often drop the cloud connection. I’ve not noticed things go back to online only though unless I haven’t used them in a while.Ĥ. ![]() I haven’t been able to find it myself, and I’ve not had any responses from Expandrive as to exactly how long offline files are stored, or where, or if there are other factors such as disk space that might contribute to them being removed. Expandrive’s local cache is somewhat elusive. Not sure if you’ve tried that, but I’d be interested to hear if that works for you or not.ģ. I find Expandrive handles it better than others because disconnecting and reconnecting a drive seems to bring the icons back for me without a need for a full reboot. I believe it’s actually an OS X issue, or so Dropbox would have me believe when I raised it with them regarding their app. I’ve always had a problem with this kinds of icons with every cloud app on a Mac, including the official Dropbox, OneDrive, and Amazon Drive applications. It seems the only way around it is to copy it out of Expandrive while working on it and back when done. Lightroom finish with it as far as I could tell. Expandrive caught it part way through the export and wouldn’t let a I haven’t noticed it with InDesign myself, but I have with some other applications, including Lightroom while exporting a photo. Regarding 1, I have noticed some apps require ongoing access to files, Expandrive tries to sync them when a change occurs though and locks the file, this in turn causes a crash. You’ve reminded me that I need to add some extra things I’ve noticed since I wrote this article. I am experiencing the Dropbox folders dropping out fairly often, normally after my computer has been not in use for a little while. After I reboot I have also found that some of my Local files have changed back to Online Only and I have to re-download them.Ĥ. The only way I could make them reappear was to reboot. So I don’t know what is and isn’t synced. I find that when I am syncing files as Local, it works quote well but you know the little cloud icon that changed to a tick when downloaded…well it often will disappear after my Mac goes to sleep. ExpanDrive is the only thing that had changed in this process.Ģ. I thought it might have been InDesign but after placed the folder on my desktop and working from that, no issues. After syncing a folder as Local, say an packaged InDesign folder – I would be working and InDesign has crashed a few times. ![]() I love the idea of ExpanDrive and it does work, but I am finding a couple of things an issue for em and wondered if you had a workaround for these, or if others are experiencing this?ġ. I am using ExpanDrive now across 3 Macs, as I work at different locations across various cloud based drives. These things are also going to be affected by your internet connection upload speed. The cache location is on the system drive and can’t be moved, so it has the potential to use up a lot of space if it grows faster than it can upload changes. Depending on how many files get edited, a user could also in theory end up with a large cache of files being uploaded. So if you have multiple users, you may end up with file clashes. The other thing to watch out for is that it can take a while to upload changes to large files. You could local sync the files you expect to need regularly though which would improve the usability. This will have some delay on editing large files. So in your scenario it’s important to note I haven’t tested with Box, but the main impact I see is for editing, the files will need to be downloaded before editing. It’s unclear to me exactly whether it is removed as soon as the upload is complete, or if it is retained for any period of time. Once the file is closed and the changes are completely uploaded it will at some point be removed from the local cache. Once saved, it will save to the local cache and begin uploading the changes. Editing – It will download the files to a local cache for editing. Renaming – It should rename the files without needing to download/upload them.ģ. It will rename the files without downloading them.Ģ. Moving – within one cloud drive it doesn’t appear that the file has to be downloaded and then uploaded but is moved directly on the server. In the particular scenario you are talking about, the way ExpanDrive will work (based on what I’ve tried with Dropbox and OneDrive) is as follows:ġ. Hi Brian, it definitely seems the large file issues are resolved. ![]()
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