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Wuala uploads all files (parts) first to the main server in Switzerland after that it tries to spread the parts to storage nodes all over the network until it somehow finds out that files are being available with 99,99(9?)% certainity.

Your files are perfectly safe even after the initial upload without maintenance, since they are stored on the server, which is online 24/7.

Luzius even said they wanted to introduce another feature in the future, called "anonymous maintenance" - so every storage node would try to make sure that fragments it has in the cache are well available in the network. I guess the server would do this kind of maintenance too (maybe not, depending on how much traffic Caleido pays for :P ) so it might be enough in the future to upload your files only once and they get spread over the network by the server (and then the other nodes) all on itself.

But if maintenance doesn't work, are my files safe?

Actually, I am a little bit confused about who does the maintenance. Are the wuala servers?Or is it the computer where I've uploaded the files? I've uploaded some files on my laptop but I don't want it to do maintenance work, neither I want it to keep those files on the hard drive. However, the files are still there (even after a cache clean) and sometimes wuala does maintenance on those files.

Sorry about the offtopic

I agree with that. I also have some space that is slowly decreasing because that hard drive was formated a few time ago.

I am just saying that if the earned storage decreases faster I would have to be more careful with the amount of space I am using. If I go on vacations for a couple of weeks I don't want to lose my files...

What would be the problem with fast decreasing? If I go offline for several days now, I have to be online a few times longer than being offline just to get back where I've stopped, besides it doesn't make much sense imo to let this value decrease really slow, since a node can fail (like my former ID that still gives me +9,5 GB even though that node will never come online again!)

Nice post.
But I don't know if the online formula is much of a problem though. If it increases faster, it would also decrease faster.

The link to Facebook/Xing/Blog/Website/... would be nice.

Hm, Filesystem Integration kinda works in most cases so write access to your own folder would be nice.

But what bugs me most is that the Fragments2 Folder keeps increasing in size - even after a cleanup, giving up ~60% onlinetime (which is rather hard to achieve...) and reinstalling Wuala from scratch - but nothing is shown in the client or in the Account statstics.

Just a few links to that problem reported multiple times here on getsatisfaction:

http://getsatisfaction.com/wuala/topi...
http://getsatisfaction.com/wuala/topi...

I also try to promote Wuala on some message boards (and get extra storage via invite-codes, hehe) but this problem is one of the most reported issues there as well, after people not able to type the IP adress of their router and forward a port! :-O
Because of that, NAT Traversal (perhaps via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole...) should also imho be a priority.

The formula how long you are being online should also be revisited, after about 70 Days of 24/7 online you still get only "90% online" Depending on when you round up on your side it may take more than half a year to get 100%! I honestly don't think someone who is online exactly 4 hours a day everyday will EVER be able to share storage!

Wuala seems to crash when it has to handle many (small) files, I tried for example to upload my XP-Disk for a friend who scratched his disk to Wuala so he could use nLite... Well - the next time I better create an Iso-file, that's for sure! Crashes because the heap was too low, some small files never got uploaded until I deleted everything from Wuala and reuploaded,
crashes on his side when he tried to download the files at once...
I didn't report that yet because I thought that it might not yet be that important, but if people later (when buying storage is possible) start to upload backups and not only media data or p0rn and those backups are not packed in an archive this might become an issue (take for example a big photo-collection). At the moment you are limited because you only have 1 GB but if you yould buy Wuala + xx GB in a nice box at MediaMarkt (like Windows Vista ;-) ) these problems should better be solved!

About the strange behaviour in group view I already wrote something in another thread... it's not that much of an issue imho since it is only annoying but doesn't break or crash anything. Some more control over groups would also be nice - to be able to actually store something in there is a big improvement btw, this really helps if you have to move or rename something!

Conclusion:
Most important issues I see at the moment:
Bugs:
Storage earning (Fragments2 vs. "locally saved data")
Crashes and misbehaviour when adding many many files at once
Improvement areas:
UPnP Code and NAT traversal techniques to get more people that have that green dot in the lower right corner
Online formula gets unfaierer the longer you are online since it increases slower and slower the closer you get to your limit.
Groups could still need some love but the situation has improved already!

Oh, it seems that I'm only discontent with Wuala... that is NOT the case! I want to help to improve Wuala as much as I can, since I consider it one of the greatest apps for filesharing and online file storage!

Bugreport: sure, on the other hand, it doesn't take a lot of time to implement :-) but tell me, what is the most pressing issue for you? what's bugging you most?

haaaaaa okéé

yes that sound very much!!!

thx for this luzius!!!!

This is perfectly normal. Only the message sounds more dramatic than it is. I renamed it to "Resting (OK_FOR_NOW)". That sounds much nicer, doesn't it? :)

hello luzius

i have this probleme too....

when i open wuala the backup run my files upload but after a moment that put the files in resting...i have this with all of my files....
That mean the files is broken or something like that????

Yup, works for me. 'twas a great update!

After the update, it works for me now.Can anyone else confirm this?

Same issue here. Running FF 2.0.0.12 and Vista

After the next update, the local backup will be optional (so you can turn it off in the settings). That's our first steps towards anonymous maintenance as described in http://getsatisfaction.com/wuala/topi...