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iDisk Navigator Frontend?
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There is a wonderful WebDAV client called Cadaver. I t can upload, download, and navigate.
If you've ever compiled it for OS X and used it for an iDisk... you'd know how much of a dream it is to use speedwise. It screams  It meets the speed of FTP.
Now, while I am perfectly fine using it in the Terminal.. others aren't.. and installation is a little tricky. And plus, GUI's increase ease of use
I was wondering if anyone was willing to help the mac community and create a Cocoa front end for this amazing tool. I would do it myself but I only know AppleScript, and asfaik it can't do this.
If anyone is interested, contact me and I can give you info on how to install it, operate it, etc... I am sure you know that the speed of the iDisk in the finder is horrible, on *all* connections. We could all immensely gain from an app like this.
Thanks in advance
email– synotic@mac.com
aim– synotic
macnn irc– synotic
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Thanks for that link! Speed is now actually bearable!
A cocoa GUI would rock, but I don't have the cocoa skills to do it (yet).
Any takers? 
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What of Goliath? Is it slower?
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I don't think that would be too hard to do, but unfortunately I'm too busy right now...
I'll second the previous poster - is this faster than Goliath?
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Originally posted by CharlesS:
<STRONG>I don't think that would be too hard to do, but unfortunately I'm too busy right now...
I'll second the previous poster - is this faster than Goliath?</STRONG>
I am confused.. I tried Goliath.. it doesn't seem to be fast at all.. in fact except for mounting.. it's the same speed as using the Finder.. maybe 2 or 3 seconds less. As I think I previously stated.. this is at the speed of FTP.. maybe faster. Is Goliath this fast?
BTW, maybe you could take a little less than an hour and provide a core, and then other devs can work with the UI and add features and whatnot?
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Do you really need another program for fast WebDAV browsing in the CLI?
From what I've seen, just using the regular shell commands to browse a mounted iDisk is quite fast enough.
Similarly, I don't think that an iDisk GUI would need anything other than the common filesystem functions.
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We hope your rules and wisdom choke you / Now we are one in everlasting peace
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Originally posted by Mactoid:
<STRONG>Do you really need another program for fast WebDAV browsing in the CLI?
From what I've seen, just using the regular shell commands to browse a mounted iDisk is quite fast enough.
Similarly, I don't think that an iDisk GUI would need anything other than the common filesystem functions.</STRONG>
It seems that it is still slightly faster using cadaver. And also, a limitation of what you said, "a mounted iDisk". With this, it connects directly, no mounting. You'd still have to go through the finder to mount your disk and it's even harder when you have multiple idisks.
Lots of people in #macnn really want this. gzl, vmarks etc...
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Originally posted by Synotic:
<STRONG>...You'd still have to go through the finder to mount your disk and it's even harder when you have multiple idisks.</STRONG>
Not necessarily. The <font face = "courier">mount_webdav</font> and <font face = "courier">mount_afp</font> (pick your favored protocol) mount iDisk's just fine, so they could be utilized by a GUI to mount one or more iDisk's somewhere.
Nevertheless, the speed issue I cannot speak on. Maybe I will try out cadaver some time.
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Originally posted by Mactoid:
<STRONG>
Not necessarily. The <font face = "courier">mount_webdav</font> and <font face = "courier">mount_afp</font> (pick your favored protocol) mount iDisk's just fine, so they could be utilized by a GUI to mount one or more iDisk's somewhere.
Nevertheless, the speed issue I cannot speak on. Maybe I will try out cadaver some time.</STRONG>
I've not seen mount_webdav or mount_afp ..I however can't figure out the syntax, there seems to be no man page. Could you enlighten me how to use it? Thanks
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally posted by Synotic:
<STRONG>I've not seen mount_webdav or mount_afp ..I however can't figure out the syntax, there seems to be no man page. Could you enlighten me how to use it? Thanks </STRONG>
mkdir /Volumes/username
chmod 777 /Volumes/username/
mount_webdav -a10 idisk.mac.com/username /Volumes/username
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