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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: WebDrive 8.22
Pros: I love the ideea of having an FTP client perfectly integrated into Windows Explorer and the new version seems vey stable.
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: WebDrive 8.22
"Easy idea with excellent toys :)"
Pros: Securing a transmission is usuall a dream of every people on the Internet who afraid of (packet) sniffers.
sFTP is just something which makes this program useful (i didn't used Etheral/etc. to try out sniffing, yet). I wonder if this can be used well to make a new security layer before the newly added server links can be accessed (~tunneling :).
Cons: I reflected to the "joke" reviewer's little note with a plus as a lot of webdrive job can be done with explorer.exe/iexplore.exe :)
Well, experienced users know that they should only (for example) type in to dos prompt something like:
net use W: \\theserver\theshare /user:theusersdomain\user /persistent:no
It's just to clear why i said easy at the summary (~for experienced users).
I don't like how it's .. let me say how to advertis this program? I think it should use some more words about "general secure transfering", instead of useing words mainly on the "web server". There are ftp servers out there and some free spaces users may thing this program isn't good for them (~as they don't really have web server). A better definition is needed :).
Personaly, i'm not quite sure about the price. This should be a plugin for Windows Explorer, instead of a program (i prefer WE).
- you have connected something to a drive letter, how you know that it's free (disconnected or not)? Unexperienced users won't really know what the problem is. Please, use detailed error handling, instead of leaveing it to the system (~ a 1/2-way..)
- there's a back button at the Add new site.. for what?
- users should know that mapping a drive from a far-far-... far away server will slow their computers/connections, is there a warning anywhere? (of course, yes, the choosed ftp servers are from the biggest companies ftp servers.. no wonder they are somehow ok)
- "Run at startup" (tray option) should be disabled right after setup
- not much places where a help button can be found...
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: WebDrive 8.22
"Next Killer App, beats downloading with FTP servers"
Pros: This application cuts downloading large files from ftp servers to a couple of minutes instead of hours. I really wonder, if this exists, why should we require a ftp server.
Cons: "WebDrive integrates FTP, WebDAV, SFTP or FrontPage servers into the Windows desktop by making your web server appear as a network drive" Therefore, only the mentioned apps could make full use of this technology.
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: WebDrive 8.22
"Great idea, now fix the bugs"
Pros: Easy installation and configuration; once you've added your FTP site as a drive and connect to it, you can do everything on it that you can do on other "real" local drives e.g. open files for editing, and make a copy by dragging a file to the same directory - something that you can't do with Windows XP's built in FTP client (I'm talking about the one you get when you type an ftp:... URL into a browser window, not the console mode client). It also supports secure versions of FTP but I didn't test that feature, although I've used this program "on and off" since version 3.
Cons: First of all, Webdrive seems much slower than the XP browser: it takes a lot longer to upload or download files and when I tried to upload a large number of files at the same time, it choked because it was trying to make too many connections to my server (this may be fixable by changing settings, I didn't examine it closely enough to figure it out, instead I just used the XP browser and it worked perfectly).
The program uses a local cache for files and uploads or downloads only what's needed. Unfortunately it doesn't check with the server when you open a file or directory, to check if someone/something else changed something, so you have to tell it to "synchronize" (upload changed files) or flush the cache sometimes.
There's a bug that's been in there for many versions that won't let you rename the .htaccess file (it says bad filename), which is common on Apache-based webservers, so you have to use the XP browser to do that. Also for some reason it doesn't let me change access rights on the files (the feature shows up, but the controls are disabled - it must not detect that the server can do it or again maybe this is a configuration problem) even though the XP browser can do it on the same site. Changing file ownership would be a nice feature they could have added, but the XP browser can't do that either.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: WebDrive 8.22
Pros: My computer runs fasters and I feel that my information is more secure, because before I was just waiting for the next disaster to happen.
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