Archive for September, 2010

Jungle Disk 3.1 is Released

We’re extremely excited to announce that Jungle Disk 3.1 and version 3.1 of our reseller products are now available via the software download page.  Automatic updates will be turned on early next week to allow customers to download and install the update directly within the software.

As a reminder, this update adds public file sharing to our Desktop and Workgroup products.   We’re now able to support three simple and convenient ways to share files outside of Jungle Disk.

  • Create a share via web access by right-clicking on any file and choosing the ‘Share’ option.
  • Right-click on any file within a Jungle Disk Network Drive and select the ‘Share with Jungle Disk’ option.  This method eliminates the need to log in to web access and does not require a file upload.
  • Local files on your computer that do not reside on Jungle Disk can also be shared by right-clicking on the file and selecting the ‘Share with Jungle Disk’ option. Behind the scenes, Jungle Disk will first upload the file to an online disk that is selected in the configuration and then generate a sharing URL.

Public file sharing links will automatically expire after 1 week, however, you can always customize the expiration date via the file share management page.

Another new feature that has been included in the Workgroup Edition and Reseller versions is the ability for sub-accounts to change their account passwords if the master account holder enables that option.  Sub-accounts can change their password directly in the software under the Application Settings.

This release also contains several fixes and updates so please take the time to read the release notes for the products that you are installing or updating:

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Jungle Disk 3.1 Release Candidate

Our thanks go out to everyone who is participating in our 3.1 Beta program. Your feedback has been quite valuable, and we’re very pleased with the way our new features are shaping up. We’ve made a few more changes since Beta 2, so we’re putting out one more version before our final 3.1 release.

In this update, master account holders for the Workgroup Edition can now permit sub-accounts to change their own passwords directly within the Jungle Disk client.  To manage this option, navigate to the account details for the associated sub-account and enable the “Allow Sub-account to Change Password” option.  The Workgroup Edition software will need to be restarted for the option to be visible under the Application Settings section.

You will also notice that we have cleaned up the Public File Sharing functionality, and added URL shortening to make the share links easier to pass along.  All file shares will now have a much shorter domain, followed by a random alphanumeric sequence.

And finally, we improved our Network Drive functionality on Windows. These improvements are largely behind-the-scenes, but they resolve a few performance issues reported by our users in the support forums and elsewhere.

You can download the 3.1 Release Candidate by clicking on the “Beta” links on the download pages of jungledisk.com. Be sure to let us know what you think!

Allan Metts, Jungle Disk

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