WebDrive
Release Notes
Version 8.22
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Important Information
  • To install WebDrive on Windows NT/2000/XP you must have administrator privileges.  Once installed you can use WebDrive from any NT user account.
  • To uninstall WebDrive, select add/remove programs from the control panel and select WebDrive.  Or select the uninstall icon in the WebDrive program folder to uninstall WebDrive.
  • VISTA Support - to install on vista you should run the install program with elevated priveledges, right click on the setup program and select "Run as Administrator".
  • For 64 bit Windows support you will need to install the Native 64 bit version of WebDrive which you can download here http://www.webdrive.com/products/webdrive/index.html
Amazon S3 Support
To connect to a Amazon S3 server set the Server type in WebDrive to be Amazon-S3.   Then enter your Amazon Access Key in the username field of WebDrive and your Amazon Secret Key as the password.   For the URL you have two options.  The first option is to use the URL http://s3.amazonaws.com which should show all buckets you have access to in the root folder, then you can navigate to the buckets and treat them as folders.  The other option is to root your drive in a bucket by using the following syntax http://s3.amazonaws.com/<bucketname>  where <bucketname> is the name of the bucket you wish to use. 

S3 does not have a concept of folders but webdrive uses the S3 prefix/delimiter option to make it appear as folders with '/' being the delimter.  So you can create folders with your webdrive and put files into them.

One severe limitation of S3 is that it does not support a rename operation.  So to rename a file webdrive downloads the file then uploads it to the new name and deletes the original.   This also means you can not rename a folder that has files in it. 

Version: 8.22 Release Date: November 12 2008
  • Fixed WebDAV issue with servers that incorrectly return a iscollection property for files.
  • Fixed issue with block I/O and saving Office files if "cache temporary office files" was disabled.
  • Fixed licensing issue.
  • Append Synchronization logs rather than overwriting for each synchronization job.
  • Change Offline synchronization to not delete files on the server even when deleted locally while offline.  To delete a file permanently you must be online to delete it.
Version: 8.21 Release Date: October 02, 2008
  • Fixed explorer create folder issue that could show up on some systems when creating a temp file on newly created folders.
  • Fixed NTLM Authentication issue which could result in zero byte files being uploaded.
  • Fixed WebDAV 502 bad gateway rename issue for locked files when using SSL.
  • Added ability to list European buckets for Amazon S3.  The syntax to use is http://<euro-bucket-name>.s3.amazonaws.com
  • Fixed issue with Auto DAV Locking and saving of excel files that could result in a save failing due to a lock error.
Version: 8.2 Release Date: September 12, 2008
  • Created native 64 bit version of WebDrive for use on 64 bit Windows platforms.
  • Added support for HTTP proxy servers for SFTP connections.
  • Increased performance when using "multi-user" cache mode by not validating cached files so often, there is now a 5 second window where if a directory or file is valid it won't check with the server again for that specific file/folder if it's been less than 5 seconds.
  • Fixed an isssue with the cache temporary office files feature and Excel files still doing 2 uploads on a save, now it should only do one.
  • If a directory listing fails webdrive will now attempt to download the directory again before returning an error.
  • Added support for Amazon S3 paged results for directories with more than 1,000 files.
  • Added the ability to use a %USERNAME% macro in userdefaults.reg file or any import file which will replace %USERNAME% with the currently logged on NT User at the time of the import of the file.  Note: the %USERNAME% must be all uppercase.
  • Fixed NTLM/Windows authentication issue for Apache/Coyote servers when uploading files that caused the upload to happen twice.
  • Fixed quota issue for servers that don't support quota by using the registry value QuotaMB.
  • Fixed file upload/download retry issue so that it will retry the proper number of times on a failed transfer.
  • Fixed SSL read issue when using ISA proxy server and client certificates.
  • Fixed deadlock issue that could happen with robocopy and /MOVE
  • Fixed URL encoding issue for some characters like plus sign.
  • Fixed file transfer manager issues for Vista platforms when clicking on run now when a drive is mapped.  You will now be warned to disconnect first. 
  • Fixed wildcard issue for legacy applications when using ???????.txt as a wildcard search.
  • Don't request "displayfilename" property unless enabled for DAV servers.
  • Fixed issue with DevStudio when compiling C++ applications.
  • Fixed hang issue with using procmon utility from SysInternals.
Version: 8.01.1997 Release Date: April 20, 2008
  • Added an option to cache small writes by applications to increase performance, this new setting is on the site properties/file settings dialog.
  • Added the ability for Amazon S3 mode to view folders created by other applications like BucketExplorer and also for BucketExplorer to view WebDrive created folders.
  • Various enhancements to Offline file support that better handle file deletion and provided a synchronization log feature to examine what  happened during a synchronize operation.  Also added the ability to set a root folder Offline.
  • Fixed HTTP byte range request problem that prevented download on some DAV servers.
  • Fixed DAV UTF8 encoding issue, this setting is now on by default for all DAV servers.
  • Fixed SFTP handshake issue with extremely slow servers where command timeout was not being used and a 30 second timeout was always used.
  • Fixed issue with Amazon S3 storage when using a URL rooted on a bucket with nested folders being listed.
  • Fixed Vista access denied issue when clicking on "Schedule" from the transfer manager, it will now run elevated and prompt with the standard UAC Allow dialog.
  • Fixed site wizard error when "test connection" button was hit and site information was lost.
  • Fixed offline synchronization issue when files are removed on the server but not removed from the offline cache during a synchronize operation.
  • Fixed File Transfer Manager issue if filenames contained the percent '%' character.
  • Fixed SFTP upload and download issue where CPU usage would go very high.
  • Fixed SSL issue with some servers that prevented connection.
  • Fixed SFTP issue with some broken servers that returned invalid directory information.
Technical Support Options
   Up to date support information is available on the WebDrive WebSite.
Contact Information
South River Technologies, Inc.
2635 Riva Road
Suite 100
Annapolis, MD 21401
USA
http://www.southrivertech.com
Telephone: 410-266-0667
Fax: 410-266-1191
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