I know I've used ExpanDrive in the past, and it works sometimes, but still has a lot of weird issues (i.e. just opening a file will sometimes cause Finder to crash and not restart, and it also relies on a version of FUSE which I don't trust to be secure).
On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 12:23:32 PM UTC-7, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > > Capsule summary: > > In order to gain all the benefits of using a filesystem, one > needs to have a filesystem available. :-) > > Thus, if neither local caching solutions such as Transmit nor > source control (i.e. keeping working copies both locally & on > the remote machine) suffice for your needs, we recommend > ExpanDrive <http://www.expandrive.com/> > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/> > > > [PS: Since SSH FUSE hasn't been reliable for quite some time in > our experience, we no longer recommend it, though in general > making any such service work right is a darned hard job. :-) ] > > > > On 8/4/16 at 2:28 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> (Rainman > Noodles) wrote: > > >I've been looking for a good solution to open a remote > >*directory* over SSH. I'm well aware that you can open single > >files either through the built-in S/FTP browser or via the > >command line. But that's not enough. Opening multiple files > >gets to be a real pain. > > > >The only viable solution I've found so far is to mount the > >remote directory as a volume using something like Transmit > >Disk. However, these solutions usually have weird caching > >issues and I don't really trust FUSE based solutions (they've > >had too many compatibility issues and kernel panic inducing > >bugs in the past for me to really be a fan). One solution would > >be to set up SMB sharing but I'd strongly prefer SSH, as > >setting up SMB plus the required VPN on every machine I need > >this for really isn't possible. > > > >Does anyone have a good solution for this? I'm thinking of > >submitting this as a feature request. > > > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
