Jungle Disk and Leopard
We’ve done some initial testing of Jungle Disk on the release version of OSX 10.5 (Leopard) and so far haven’t seen any issues.
One item to be aware of - Leopard no longer shows Network Servers (like Jungle Disk) in Finder by default (who knows why?). The good news it that enabling them is easy. Just open Finder and go to the Finder -> Preferences menu. Check the “Connected Servers” item under “Show these items on the Desktop”.
Your Jungle Disk volume will now appear on the desktop when running. If you want it on the Finder sidebar (as it was in 10.4) you’ll just need to drag the volume from your desktop to the “Devices” list in the sidebar.
We’re going to see about automating this in the future, to reduce confusion for new Leopard users.
Update: A few users with outdated or buggy DNS servers have had issues with Jungle Disk on Leopard (typically a spinning color wheel on startup). If you’re affected by this you can download the latest beta version of Jungle Disk which includes a work-around. We’ll be putting out a new official release in the near future that includes the fix as well.
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Freddy Mallet said,
October 29, 2007 @ 4:32 am
Jungle disk documents are not indexed by Spotlight under OSX 10.4 which is a real drawback. Is it the same thing under OSX 10.5 ?
Long life to jungle disk, that’s really a good tool and an answer to a real need.
Sean Ross said,
October 29, 2007 @ 11:08 am
Correction: I meant to say will Jungle disk work with timemachine? Leopards live in the jungle…so by twisted logic maybe they’ll live in harmony?
Jungle Dave said,
October 29, 2007 @ 11:11 am
You can’t currently back up directly to Jungle Disk with time machine. We are exploring options for allowing this in the future.
ward said,
April 9, 2008 @ 1:39 am
Jungle Dave reported to considering supporting Time machine. Can you give us an update? I like to recommend it to my clients, maybe teach it in a class.
ward said,
April 9, 2008 @ 1:41 am
Can jungleDisk run without the GUI? For instance when the admin is not logged in at the server does jungle disk still backup.
Jungle Dave said,
April 9, 2008 @ 8:15 am
Time Machine is not currently supported, as Apple removed support for WebDAV volumes. However Jungle Disk stores previous versions with it’s automatic backup feature, so it acts much like time machine in that regard.
Currently a user must be logged in for Jungle Disk to backup, however we are planning on adding an option to run as a service in the future.
Stephen Tihor said,
July 8, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
Sadly it really is something we would like at the small business customer level even if it means adding a real disk interface that Time Machine will stomach.
*Legion* said,
July 12, 2008 @ 7:01 pm
>> “Your Jungle Disk volume will now appear on the desktop when running. If you want it on the Finder sidebar (as it was in 10.4) you’ll just need to drag the volume from your desktop to the “Devices” list in the sidebar.”
On my machine, this does not “stick” after a reboot/shutdown. How can I get it to STAY in Devices?