Release notes for Jungle Disk 1.99c (Jungle Disk 2.0 Beta 3) (Released May 13, 2008)
Jungle Disk is powerful software that lets you access unlimited online storage from your desktop. Key features include:
- 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
- Support for multiple types of Amazon S3 buckets
- New User Interface
- New first-time setup wizard
- New configuration dialog
- New backup preview dialog
- New backup selection dialog
- Support for new Jungle Disk 2.0 buckets
- Instantly rename files and directories
- Optionally encrypt file & directory names
- Change encryption key (bucket password) for existing files instantly
- Unlimited number of buckets supported
- Support for Compatibility buckets, which can be shared with other S3 tools
- Support for European S3 buckets (note: Jungle Disk Plus not supported)
- Support for connecting to multiple buckets at the same time
- Support for multiple backup jobs with independent scheduling
- Expanded bandwidth limiting feature
- Applies to both network drive and automatic backup traffic
- Set limits on both upload and download rates
- Change limits on the fly
- Set schedules for limits
- New Previous Versions features
- Set minimum and maximum number of previous versions to keep
- Exclude file types and directories from previous versions
- Customize previous version settings on a per-backup-job basis
- New command line options to integrate with external task schedulers and batch jobs
- Greatly improved performance for large directories and large cache sizes
- Tray icon changes to indicate errors occuring
- Buckets (and their data) can now be deleted from configuration dialog
- Verify MD5 hash on downloads (as well as upload)
- Fixed highlight color in Mac errors & warnings list
- Fixed crash when backing up directories with large numbers of sub-directories
- 1.99c: Linux command line client included with Automatic Backup support
- 1.99c: Use SSL when getting bucket list in setup wizard
- 1.99c: Fixed crash in Add/Change backup selection on Mac
- 1.99c: Fixed crash and other issues in Previous Versions exclude folder dialog
- 1.99c: Periods and dashes now allowed in new compatibility bucket names
- 1.99c: Option to hide bucket password in bucket upgrade dialog
- 1.99c: Use local time formatting
- 1.99c: Added reconnect mapped drives menu option
- 1.99c: Fixed database failure error when renaming directories
- 1.99c: Show all buckets in configuration dialog with option to connect or delete
- 1.99c: Fixed invalid login ticket error
- 1.99b: Fixed bug with filename encryption when bucket password is blank or disabled
- 1.99b: Fixed bug with filename encryption being enabled when bucket upgrade is restarted with different settings
- 1.99b: Disable unavailable choices in configuration dialog and setup wizard
- 1.99b: Fixed legacy decryption keys not being imported correctly during bucket upgrade if standard security is selected
- 1.99b: Fixed issue creating multiple Jungle Disk 2.0 European buckets
- 1.99b: Implemented official S3 fast file copy support
- 1.99b: Fixed bucket names with dashes not appearing correctly in bucket list
- 1.99b: Fixed repeated Smart Crash Report prompts on OSX
- 1.99b: Fixed PROPFIND errors when changing configuration settings in OSX
- 1.99b: Implemented per-backup-job previous version settings
- 1.99b: Improved time estimates for bucket upgrade
- 1.99b: New menu items to open web interface and local drive
- 1.99b: Fixed bug with \ characters in backup paths in advanced backup options on Windows
- 1.99b: Fixed xUserInteractionRequired error on OSX with locked keychain
- 1.99b: Fixed xAssertFailed during archive cleanup
- 1.99b: Fixed last backup time always showing "less than one minute..."
- 1.99b: Fixed files with resource forks not being properly saved in previous versions
- Changes in the previous version
Jungle Disk 2.0 Beta Notes
- The Linux command line client is not available in this release. It will be included in a later beta release.
- Jungle Disk 2.0 and compatibility buckets are not yet supported by Jungle Disk Plus web access. They will be added prior to the final release
- 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.
Bucket Conversion Notes
- When upgrading, to make use of the new Jungle Disk 2.0 bucket features such as instant file and directory renames, you will need to convert your Jungle Disk 1.0 bucket to the Jungle Disk 2.0 bucket format.
- To do this, open the configuration dialog and enable Advanced Options. Select your bucket and an option to Upgrade it should be available.
- When upgrading, you will create a new Jungle Disk 2.0 bucket and all data will be copied from your old bucket to the new bucket.
- You can use the same bucket name or select a new name for the new bucket.
- If you select the "delete old bucket.." option in the conversion dialog, your old bucket will be deleted after conversion is successful. If conversion fails, your old bucket will not be deleted and you can restart the conversion process.
- If you need to cancel and restart the conversion process you can do so at any time. So long as you select the same name for the new bucket, the conversion will pick up where it left off.
- If you do not choose to delete the bucket after conversion your old bucket will not be deleted, but it will also not be visible in your configuration. To see the old bucket, or if you want to delete it later, select the Add Bucket option in the Configuration Dialog.
- During the conversion process both the old and new bucket will not be available for either the network drive or automatic backup. After conversion is complete, if successful, the new bucket will be added back to the configuration. If it fails, the old bucket will be added back.
- If you use the same bucket on multiple machines you only need to perform the conversion on one machine. You should stop Jungle Disk on the other machines while running the conversion. After conversion is complete you can add the new bucket on the other machines using the Add Bucket option in the configuration.
Jungle Disk has been tested extensively on Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Mac OSX 10.4 and 10.5, Suse Linux (KDE), and Ubuntu (GNOME). 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:
Windows XP
- The My Jungle Disk Start Menu shortcut displays an error stating that "Windows cannot find (null)..." on some versions of Windows XP without MS Office installed. This can be fixed by applying the Microsoft Web Folder Update patch.
- Persisting modification times for Windows XP mapped drives requires installing this hotfix from Microsoft.
- If you get a Drive Mapping Error that says "The network path was not found" make sure you have the latest Windows XP SP2 security updates installed. Also, make sure a local firewall is not blocking access.
- If you get a Drive Mapping Error that says "The workstation driver is not installed" when mapping a drive you need to reboot your machine to complete the installation.
- "A device attached to the system is not functioning" when mapping a drive may be caused by certain firewall or anti-virus products (this is known to occur with Kaspersky's Anti-Virus HTTP filtering feature)
- "The network is not present or not started" when mapping a drive may be caused by running under the "guest" windows account.
- If you have configured Internet Explorer to use a Proxy server, you must add "localxp.jungledisk.com" to the Exception list (under Advanced) then reboot for Windows to connect correctly to Jungle Disk
- OneNote 2007 does not appear to be compatible with the Jungle Disk DAV server. You can copy and back up OneNote files but may not be able to open them directly from the mapped drive
- Excel 2007 may cause a "delayed write failure" popup message on exit when editing files directly on the mapped drive. You can safely ignore this message as no data is lost.
- The Backup In-Use files feature (Volume Shadow Copy) is not available on 64-bit versions of XP
Windows Vista
- Windows Vista handles some directory names with URL-encoded characters (such as %2E) in them incorrectly. You may not be able to browse into these directories via the mapped drive
- If you get a Drive Mapping Error that says "The workstation driver is not installed" when mapping a drive you need to reboot your machine to complete the installation.
- If you have configured Internet Explorer to use a Proxy server, you must select the "bypass proxy server for local addresses" option for Windows to connect correctly to Jungle Disk
- When copying large directories from the Jungle Disk mapped drive, you may receive a "Parameter Incorrect" error from Windows. The "retry" button should allow the copy to conitnue.
- To use the backup in-use files feature Jungle Disk Monitor must be run as an administrator. You can modify the Jungle Disk Monitor shortcut on the start menu to always run as administrator by right-clicking it and selecting Properties.
- If you have configured Internet Explorer to use a Proxy server, you must add "local.jungledisk.com" to the Exception list (under Advanced) then reboot for Windows to connect correctly to Jungle Disk
- Windows Explorer may lock up when the ESET/NOD32 virus scanner is configured to scan network drives. See this forum thread for a fix.
- The Backup In-Use files feature (Volume Shadow Copy) is not available on 64-bit versions of Vista
Windows Server 2003/2008
- Windows Server 2003 does not have Web Folder support installed by default. You can install it using this update.
- Windows Server 2003 machines running IIS6 on port 80 will not be able to use native drive mapping in the standard configuration. See this forum post for a workaround.
- Mapping Jungle Disk to a drive requires the WebClient service be enabled and running. The WebClient service is disabled by default on Windows Server 2003 and must be enabled
- If you get a Drive Mapping Error that says "The workstation driver is not installed" when mapping a drive you need to reboot your machine to complete the installation.
- If you have configured Internet Explorer to use a Proxy server, you must add "localxp.jungledisk.com" to the Exception list (under Advanced) then reboot for Windows to connect correctly to Jungle Disk
- In order to use drive mapping on Windows Server 2008, you need to install the "Desktop Experience" feature
- The Backup In-Use files feature (Volume Shadow Copy) is not available on 64-bit versions of Windows Server
- See the INSTALL file included with the distribution for installation and configuration details
- The built-in Automatic Backup feature currently only backs up normal files, however you can back up links, devices, and FIFOs using rsync directly with the mapped path.
- Konqueror does not handle UTF-8 encoded filenames correctly. If you have file names with unicode characters in them you may get an error when trying to open them from Konqueror. Either rename the files to only include ASCII characters, or use an alternate access method such as FUSE filesystem integration.
- 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
- 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
- Due to an issue in the version of OpenSSL shiped with OSX 10.4.0->10.4.2, files uploaded from Jungle Disk running on those versions cannot be decrypted on a later version or on other platforms. A special fix is available for any users affected by this issue, please contact support for more information.
- 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. See the Linux INSTALL file for more detailed instructions on that platform. On Windows, consider using Robocopy or Xcopy instead.