A few months ago I was working on a small project to create a MacFUSE file system for Xdrive. Then the news came that AOL was shutting down Xdrive and over night my project became worthless. I had wasted countless hours building a nice Open XDrive Cocoa framework that was used to build the MacFUSE file system. I had built and tested a UI to authenticate a user and mount multiple Xdrives. I had tested that it worked on Tiger and Leopard. And, I had it localized in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
I let this project sit on the shelf and did not touch it. Then, the other day I tried it out and it still worked. I was surprised how easy it was to use and I felt sad that it was never finished.
Today, I decided to release this project, a MacFUSE file system for Xdrive that runs on Mac OS X. Even though it is not fully complete, I know it works fairly well. I would like others to have a chance to try it out.
First, download and install MacFUSE. Then, download XDriveFS and un-archive the file. You can then run the extracted XDriveFS application file.
Give it a try and let me know if it works for you.
Larry Aasen
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Sorry to hear about the wasted effort because of the shutdown - sounds like a slick implementation.
I’ve been tinkering with the WSDL for one of the other online services (ElephantDrive). Is this the sort of thing that could be plugged into their service?
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:02 am
I don’t think that could be plugged into their service.