v2.5
Latest August 3, 2026New: Notifications from Your Cloud Connections
See what’s happening on your cloud accounts without running each provider’s own app.
- On Dropbox and OneDrive, get a notification when someone shares a file or folder with you.
- On Nextcloud, see the same feed the official desktop app shows: shares, comments, mentions, and app notifications.
- Turn it on per connection with Show Notifications on This Mac in connection settings. It’s off until you ask for it, and the choice stays on the Mac you make it on. Clicking a notification opens the item on the provider’s website.
Improved: Much Lighter on Your Mac
On connections with a lot of files, Driio’s background sync could use enough CPU to spin the fans up and eat into battery. That’s fixed.
- Looking up a file used to mean checking every file Driio knows about on that connection — hundreds of thousands on a big one. It’s now instant, no matter how large the connection grows.
- Folders you haven’t opened in a while now go quiet instead of being checked at full speed forever. The folders you’re actually working in stay just as fresh.
- In our testing on a connection with about 650,000 files, background CPU dropped from a full processor core to under a tenth of one.
- This is easier on your servers as well. macOS re-reads folders for its own housekeeping, and Driio was mistaking that for you browsing, so folders you never opened stayed on the fast-refresh list day and night. Now only a real application counts as browsing, and an idle Mac sends a small fraction of the server traffic it used to.
- Driio’s internal bookkeeping had accidentally been flagged for Spotlight indexing, so every file it discovered or downloaded set off background indexing of values nobody could ever search for. Removing the flag also removed the constant CPU and disk writes that came with it.
Bug Fixes
- Folders open when you click them: some folders would sit on “Loading…” until you clicked away and came back.
- Ghost folders no longer keep Driio busy: a folder the server lists but can’t open is now set aside instead of being retried every couple of minutes forever. It comes back on its own once the server can open it again.
- “The file names may be out of date” after resetting a connection: resetting starts Driio’s record of that connection over, but macOS kept the position it had already reached — so it skipped that many files in the rebuilt connection and never went back for them. Driio now recognizes a reset and has macOS read the connection fresh.
- Files with a slash in the name open again: a name like Invoices 1/17.pdf could refuse to open, because servers store that character in different ways and Driio assumed one of them. Names now travel exactly as your server spells them. On WebDAV, a single one of these could take the whole connection offline until you reset it.
- Nothing to do on your side: existing connections correct themselves as you browse, or the first time you open an affected file. There’s no re-scan or re-download involved, and your connections stay put.
- Saving a file with a slash in its name works: on SMB shares and OneDrive, which cannot store that character literally, Driio now writes the name the way those servers expect instead of failing.
- A refused upload no longer multiplies: when a server permanently rejected a file, macOS kept retrying under name 2, name 3, and so on, and one file could leave hundreds behind. It now reports the problem once. Uploads that fail for a temporary reason, like a dropped connection, still wait and try again.
On iPhone & iPad
The filename fixes and the performance improvements apply everywhere Driio runs. Cloud notifications are macOS-only, because they run in the Driio menu bar app.