Charles Hedrick - Feb. 23, 2007
Some of you have noticed the Vista's WebDAV doesn't work with Sakai. Actually XP's doesn't either, but XP has a second WebDAV implementation that just barely works. They've removed that from Vista, so in Vista you have to use the webdav redirector, and it doesn't work with Sakai.
Eventually I'm going to see if I can fix Sakai to work with Vista. However there's no guarantee that this will be possible, nor when I will get to it.
In the meantime, I recommend looking at some of the shareware Dav tools. I have by no means tried them all, but I have tried two:
BitKinex and Independent Dav.
BinKinex has a two pane interface, with dav on one side and your local files on the other. It lets you drag between the two. However it's sort of complex, and it's hellishly slow over SSH. Without SSH the speed is acceptable.
Independent DAV looks nice, and is fast. However it's only one window. You can drag from a separate Windows explorer into a folder in DAV (note: folder - if you try to drag files onto a file in DAV, the application nearly crashes). But oddly enough, you can't drag the other way. Of course there are also upload and download buttons to handle that. The buttons let you select multiple files and ranges of files, so it's pretty convenient. It works on XP and Vista (at least a late release candidate of Vista). There are buttons to lock and unlock files, but it doesn't do so by default (which is good - that greatly reduces the scope for protocol problems).
It requires the .NET framework. It will point you to the .NET download site if you don't have it.
http://www.independentsoft.de/independentdav/
I'm going to recommend Independent DAV to people on campus who want to use Vista before we have time to figure out whether there are better solutions. Of course Vista has the .NET framework, so you don't have to download that.
If anyone knows of a free tool that lets you move multiple files easily, I'd love to hear about it. There are free tools for OS X, but I haven't seen it for Windows.