I've had exactly your experience (expandrive, ST2, SFTP plugin) on OSX and I've also arrived at the same solution. Works well enough, but as you said, ST2's lac

I've had exactly your experience (expandrive, ST2, SFTP plugin) on OSX and I've also arrived at the same solution. Works well enough, but as you said, ST2's lack of auto refreshing of directories is a bit troublesome. Furthermore I've had situations where Expandrive wouldn't refresh either and I had to unmount/mount again - improvements in that regard is what I'd be looking for most in an update.