Field notes from the drive.
Engineering on cloud storage, IT-admin field reports, customer stories, and product news from the team that's been shipping mount tools since 2004.
Research
The work behind the drive.
Cloud-storage engineering, honest comparisons, and the technical writing the docs page doesn't have room for.
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sshfs is a footgun at scale
An honest look at sshfs, curlftpfs, lftp, and GVFS in production. The failure modes anyone running them at scale has hit, and what a real Linux cloud mount has to do instead.
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Files.com Acquires ExpanDrive, Now Free
Mount Cloud Storage as Local Drives – For Free
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[Press Release] Files.com Acquires ExpanDrive, Launches Free Version to Expand Multi-Cloud Access
Files.com, the leading platform for secure and automated file transfer, today announced its acquisition of ExpanDrive, a desktop application for accessing cloud and remote storage as local drives. As part of the acquisition, ExpanDrive is now free for personal use under a new freemium pricing model.
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Map Dropbox as a Network Drive on Mac, Windows, and Linux
Map Dropbox as a network drive on Mac, Windows, and Linux — free for individuals and teams under 10 users. ExpanDrive mounts personal Dropbox, Dropbox Business, and Dropbox Teams accounts as native drives, with full Linux support Dropbox's own client doesn't reliably offer.
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#1 SharePoint Client for Linux
A SharePoint client for Linux that mounts your tenant as a native drive — Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, Debian, and more. ExpanDrive uses the Microsoft Graph API directly, respects SSO and MFA, and is free for individuals and teams under 10 users.
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Multiple Google Drive Accounts on Mac, Windows, and Linux
Mount multiple Google Drive accounts simultaneously on Mac, Windows, and Linux. ExpanDrive connects unlimited personal and Workspace Drives in one client — free for individuals and teams under 10 users. The cleaner answer to "how to manage multiple Google Drive accounts" than Google's own desktop app.
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SharePoint on Mac: every working way to access your files
Every way to access SharePoint on a Mac — the browser, OneDrive sync, Office for Mac, WebDAV, and mount-as-drive via ExpanDrive. Which one fits which use case, with honest pros and cons for each.
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OneDrive on Linux: the four ways to do it
Four free, working ways to use OneDrive on Linux today — rclone, abraunegg's CLI, OneDriver FUSE, and ExpanDrive. Honest comparison of mount vs. sync, what each tool actually does well, and when each one fits.
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Mount Amazon S3 as a Network Drive on Mac, Windows, and Linux
Mount Amazon S3 as a network drive on Mac, Windows, and Linux — free for individuals and teams under 10 users. ExpanDrive mounts S3 buckets (and any S3-compatible provider like Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2) as native drives via the AWS API.
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Mount SharePoint as a Drive on Mac, Windows, and Linux
Mount SharePoint as a network drive on Mac, Windows, and Linux — free for individuals and teams under 10 users. ExpanDrive maps SharePoint sites, subsites, and document libraries to Finder, Explorer, and the Linux file manager via the Microsoft Graph API.
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S3 Browser for Mac, Linux and Windows
A real S3 browser for Mac, Linux, and Windows. ExpanDrive browses, uploads, and manages Amazon S3 (and S3-compatible providers like Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2) with a native GUI plus a mounted-drive view. Free for individuals and teams under 10 users.
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Map Google Drive as a Network Drive on Mac, Windows, and Linux
Map Google Drive as a network drive on Mac, Windows 10/11, and Linux. ExpanDrive mounts Google Drive (personal, Workspace, and Shared Drives) as a native drive — free for individuals and teams under 10 users.
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