Release notes for Jungle Disk Desktop

Jungle Disk is powerful software that lets you access unlimited online storage from your desktop.

Key features include:

  • Support for Amazon S3
  • Native support for Windows, Mac, and Linux
  • Extensive caching system for files and directories
  • Background upload, delete, copy, and move support
  • Desktop application for upload and download progress
  • Complete encryption for all data
  • Automatic restart of background operations in case of shutdown or crash
  • Support for automatic backup on a timed or manual basis
  • Automatic archival of old versions and deleted files
  • Mutli-way sync between local folders and your network drive

Changes in version 3.05 include:
  • Eliminated an error that could cause Jungle Disk to become unresponsive when Syncing an entire drive on Windows.
  • Jungle Disk now supports "One-Way" sync. You can sync files and folders from your network drive to your local volume, and vice-versa, without a requirement to sync them in both directions. Be sure that you DON'T set up more than one machine as the "master" in a one-way sync arrangement, or you may end up with unexpected results.
  • Jungle Disk will now show sync status overlay icons for files on removable media devices.
  • OneNote Table Of Contents.onetoc2 files are no longer ignored by sync.
  • Reduced error conditions resulting in "Sync Database is Locked" messages.
  • Reduced errors when syncing files that have filenames containing diacritics (such as accent marks, dieresis or enyays)
  • Reduced the refresh interval when displaying files in Windows, which prevents interference when renaming files.
  • Removed the requirement to pause and resume sync in order to initiate sync on external drives and other volues that were not present when Jungle Disk was started.
  • Resolved an issue on Windows which could cause a "Sync Pending" status icon to show up on files excluded from sync.
  • Added a configuration option that allows all users to see a network drive under Linux.
  • Added support for Growl and Snarl notifications on Windows, and libNotify notifications on Linux. These features can send messages to your desktop when events associated with Jungle Disk occur.
  • Added the ability to schedule a backup vault cleanup as soon as possible from the monitor's online disk menu.
  • Corrected a condition that could prevent data from getting removed from a Backup Vault if a backup was canceled or aborted.
  • Corrected a condition which could result in "SQL Logic Error" messages after a backup was canceled or aborted.
  • Corrected an error that prevented backup jobs from running correctly on some non-English versions of Windows.
  • Corrected an issue that caused files and folders in the Backup Vault restore dialog to appear unsorted.
  • Corrected an issue that could lead to application startup delays when running in standalone mode.
  • Corrected an issue which could erroneous "Another Instance is already running" errors.
  • Eliminated "string encoding" warnings when a system drive contained international characters in the drive label.
  • Improved network drive performance on Linux.
  • On Windows the network drive has been optimized to perform better with large files, especially ones that are frequently changed.
  • On Windows, the default directories for Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail, and Windows Live Mail are now more accurate.
  • On Windows, users can now choose to map their online disks to a virtual network share instead of a local removable media device in order to give a better experience when browsing the online disk in Windows Explorer.
  • Resolved an issue that could cause individual files to become corrupted during a backup, if the previous backup job was canceled.
  • Restored the Linux command line utility that existed in pre-3.0 versions of Jungle Disk. Run jungledisk --help for details.
  • The configuration dialog now opens withough excessive delays when Jungle Disk is offline.
  • When using bandwidth limiting, Jungle Disk is now less likely to burst over the specified limit on uploads.
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Known Issues

  • Block-level updates currently work for data uploaded via sync, however files downloaded are always downloaded in their entirety. We are working to add support for block-level updates to sync downloads as well for a future release.
  • Renames are currently treated as a new file and a delete, causing the file to be re-uploaded. We are planning on supporting renames without re-uploading in a future release.
  • Multiple files in the same folder that differ only by case are not currently supported for Sync.
  • You may see "failed to sync file - in use" errors when copying a large file into a Sync folder. These can be ignored as Jungle Disk will copy the file once it is completely written.

Platform Release Notes

Jungle Disk has been tested extensively on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OSX 10.5, Redhat Linux, and Ubuntu. Basic testing has also been done on other versions as well. Testing has uncovered the following known issues due to different implementations of WebDAV on various platforms:

All Platforms

  • When adding compatibility buckets created by other tools, such as S3Fox, you may need to use the Consistency Check feature on the HELP menu before files will be visible in Jungle Disk. This is due to the different directory indicators used by different S3 utilities. You may also need to delete the Directory Cache after making changes with other tools for those changes to appear in Jungle Disk.
  • RSYNC: The default behavior of rsync is to copy files then rename them. Because of the overhead of renaming files, we recommend using the "--inplace" and "--size-only" flags when using rsync on Mac. On Windows, consider using Robocopy or Xcopy instead.
  • Sync should be paused before disconnecting a sync'd drive, and resumed after reconnection.
  • Sync should be paused during a consistency check operation.

Windows

  • On Windows Vista when opening MS Office documents, the files may occationally open as "read-only" due to Windows Explorer trying to open the file at the same time as Office. Closing and re-opening the document should fix the issue. You can also avoid it by hiding the "Details" pane in Windows Explorer.
  • Having the native file system driver enabled will potentially allow applications to scan or index Jungle Disk as a drive and could result in increased activity to your Jungle Disk.
  • Sync status icons in Windows file lists may not always refresh automatically in Windows XP. Press F5 to update the status if you suspect this is happenin

Linux

  • See the INSTALL file included with the distribution for installation and configuration details
  • Jungle Disk attempts to locate your web browser automatically when clicking links in the software. If it does not find your preferred web browser, simply create a symlink to your browser named ~/.jungledisk/browser
  • It is not possible to select the root directory in the backup selection dialog on Linux.

Mac

  • Jungle Disk 3.0 requires OSX 10.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
  • If you have parental controls enabled on your Mac user account, you will need to add "https://s3.amazonaws.com" to the allowed sites list for your account or you may receive a "connection refused" error
  • Finder encodes UTF8 filenames slightly differently than other platforms. If you use your Jungle Disk between OSX and other platforms at the same time, some filenames may display differently on the other platforms. This should not affect your ability to copy or use the files however.
  • Executables cannot currently be launched from a mapped Jungle Disk. Copy the application locally before running it.
  • OSX does not encode + characters correctly in URLs. File names uploaded with a "+" character in them will show up with a space instead
  • DS_Store files can be disabled by following the instructions here

Open Source

Jungle Disk makes use of several excellent open source libraries. In compliance with the associated license agreements we have provided links to the copyright / license information and original source code below.