Jungle Disk Blog

Today we’re releasing Version 3.05 for all editions of Jungle Disk. A big “thank you” goes out to all of our customers who shared their experiences in our Support Forums and ticket system. Thanks to your feedback, we’ve made a number of performance and usability enhancements, and even added a few new goodies that didn’t appear in 3.04.

One notable enhancement is the addition of a “One Way” option to our Sync capabilities. With this feature, you can sync files from your network drive to your local folder (or vice-versa), without a requirement that the synchronization happens in the opposite direction. This feature is useful when you know the master copy of a document always exists in once place or the other, and you want to overwrite copies with the master version (regardless of whether the copies changed or not). Be sure to read the release notes on this feature, so you can set it up with exactly the behavior you want.

Other enhancements include improved cleanup of deleted data in Backup Vaults, and support for Growl and Snarl messages in Windows (and similar notifications in Linux). Linux customers will be happy to find that we restored the command-line utility that existed in versions prior to 3.0.

For a complete list of changes, please review our release notes.

You can download the new version of your edition from our Download Center — and we plan to enable automatic updates early next week. Once we do, Windows and Mac customers can upgrade to the new version by selecting “Check for Updates” from Jungle Disk’s Help Menu.

Last fall, we introduced the Jungle Disk Server Edition with tremendous reception and many requests to make it available for resellers.   Well, we’re happy to say that day is near!  But, before we launch, we’d like to invite our reseller community to participate in a public beta test for the Reseller Server Edition.

The product feature set is the same as Jungle Disk Server Edition, but white-label branded for the Reseller community.  The beta will include a 30-day free subscription with 10GB storage included.  Normal cloud storage fees still apply after the first 10 GB and the account will convert to paying after the 30-day evaluation period, unless canceled.

Specific areas we are looking for feedback on:

• Process of generating a license key
• Ease of creating a new license
• Installation and activation with that license
• General product evaluation

Getting Started is Easy!

Simply visit the Jungle Disk Reseller Support forum to get started.  Instructions for the beta, a reviewer’s guide, and beta feedback areas can be found at:  http://support.jungledisk.com/forums/129660-jungle-disk-reseller-server-edition-beta

Note: If you are a reseller and you do not see the Reseller Community Links under “Forums” on the right hand side of the support page, simply submit a support ticket to request access.

Thanks in advance for your help evaluating this product for our reseller community.  Your feedback is very important to us and we appreciate your efforts in making this the best product possible.

Thanks,

The Jungle Disk Team

It’s really exciting to look back at all of the great things we accomplished at Jungle Disk in 2009, however, we believe that 2010 is our opportunity to do even more great things! We wanted to outline just a couple of the areas that we’re looking to target over the next year.

Collaboration
We love that you trust Jungle Disk to backup and store your valuable files, but now we want to empower you to do more by offering cool new features like collaboration tools and public file sharing.  At the end of the day, Jungle Disk is going to be the complete solution for any individual, team or company looking to do just about anything with their data. Store it? Archive it? Back it up? Version it? Share it? Sync it? Collaborate with it? Access it through the web? Yes, Jungle Disk does that.

Usability
We’re going to make a big push to improve product usability across the board. That means a rework of our existing offering and also putting more thought into usability as we roll out new features.  Certainly, our efforts to improve usability applies not only to the software, but the Jungle Disk website as well.

What else?
Rest assured that we have a lot of awesome things to roll out over 2010!  In addition to a host of new features and improvements for all of Jungle Disk’s products and services, you’ll want to keep coming back to find out more about how we’re taking your ability to store, sync, access and share your data to the max!

As 2009 winds to a close, we’re happy to release another set of improvements and bug fixes to all four Jungle Disk Editions. Many thanks go to our excellent user base for sharing their experiences and suggestions with us.

The complete set of changes can be found in the release notes, and we’ve turned on automatic updates for Mac and Windows users. Linux users (and those who prefer to update manually) can visit our downloads page. Note that we didn’t release 3.03 for general availability, so most of you will upgrade from 3.02 to 3.04.

All of us at Jungle Disk want to wish all of you a warm and happy holiday season, and a joyous New Year. We look forward to meeting your cloud storage needs for many years to come!

Jungle Allan

Today we’re releasing Version 3.02 for all four editions of Jungle Disk.  This release contains a number of performance and usability enhancements, plus fixes for several issues reported by our users since 3.01 went out.

One notable enhancement is our new “Usage Information” screen for Backup Vaults (see the screenshot below).  Several of you have asked for additional details on what comprises your backup vaults, and we’re happy to oblige.  You can run this report on your own vaults by clicking the link at the bottom of the Backup Vault configuration page.

You can download the new version of your edition from our Download Center — we plan to enable automatic updates early next week. Once we do, Windows and Mac users can upgrade to the new version by selecting “Check for Updates” from Jungle Disk’s Help Menu.

Jungle Disk's Backup Vault Usage Screen

A minor update for all of our products is now available. Jungle Disk 3.01 fixes several issues that were found since the initial release of 3.00. We normally would wait a bit longer before releasing a minor update, however we wanted to make sure these fixes were available before enabling automatic updates.

You can download the new version from our Download Center. The release notes for each product are linked from the download page. We’ve enabled automatic updates, so you should also be able to update on Windows/Mac by selecting Check for Updates from the Help menu.

Also, I’m pleased to announce that we’ve taken the new Jungle Disk web interface out of beta. Jungle Disk Desktop and Workgroup users can now access the new interface via https://www.myjungledisk.com. Workgroup users can also use their workgroup domain, although it is no longer required.