WebDrive rocks

April 14, 2003

South River Technologies released version 5.2 of WebDrive.

WebDrive is awesome. It lets you setup an FTP site (or WebDAV or HTTP Servers supporting Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions) as a drive letter on your computer. For example, I can edit/copy/paste/delete files to and from TnTLuoma.com as if they were on my local computer.

This means that I can use whatever editor I want (such as TopStyle and CSE HTMLValidator) to work on my web site without that tool having integrated FTP support.

This works best with a high speed internet connection (well, duh, of course). TopStyle also uses temp files in the same directory, so that can mean a lot of excess traffic (I wish TopStyle would let me use c:\temp)

Anyway, the WebDrive folks were extremely helpful with me trying to diagnose some problems I was having. After a fresh reinstall, it is working flawlessly.

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