We have rock-solid background saves that let you hit command-s with abandon. While there are some other options out now for accessing SFTP servers from within Sublime, I feel pretty confident that ExpanDrive is the best. Now you can edit any file directly within Sublime and have the entire tree visible in the sublime sidebar. This is easier on Windows where you can right click and have the default shell extension offer “Open in Sublime.” On the Mac I like the Open in Sublime button to click a folder and then click Open in Sublime and have Sublime open up the tree as a project. Once you have made the connection to the server, the contents are viewable in Finder, Explorer or any other application. You can even set a remote path so that you can mount /etc and twiddle configuration files directly. We generally use public key authentication combined with Google Authenticator for multi-factor authentication. We start by creating a new SSH (SFTP) connection within ExpanDrive, although you can connect to FTP, Amazon S3 or a whole variety of other support cloud storage providers if you prefer.ĮxpanDrive affords you a variety of configuration options for SFTP and FTP. These screenshots are from the Mac version, but it looks nearly the same on Windows. It’s free to try out for a week and is available on Mac and Windows.

If you haven’t installed ExpanDrive you can download the latest release here. It’s also one of the primary ways we dogfood ExpanDrive.

We use Sublime in conjunction with ExpanDrive every day to develop the Ruby on Rails code that powers as well the ExpanDrive Store. You don’t need to download the file, edit it, and then re-upload it. Combining Sublime Text and ExpanDrive is a powerful workflow – you actually edit and manipulate files on SFTP/FTP or S3 in real-time from directly within the Sublime Text. Sublime Text is an enormously popular text editor for Mac, Windows and Linux.

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