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Well, if one of their servers is down, you're screwed... AND they work with deltas afaik, something that is not really possible with Wualas design I fear. – Bugreport, on June 29, 2008 15:53

just got my beta key for dropbox and they get it quite good done. you get 2gb of space and if you save some files in "their" folder, it gets automatically synched. it may not be an easy task but it is possible.

I think file & folder synchronization is actually hard to do efficiently. Will it be based on file piece hash? Entire file hash? File size? Time stamp? If Caleido wants to tackle this, I suggest offering sync for Local Disk first. Trying to sync network drive has many challenges and you don't see some commercial sync software offer network drive synchronization.

I had previous crashes of Wuala but I coould fix them by deleting all things in folder: WualaSharedData Today for the first time this did not help on my machine: MacMini OSX V10.4.11 I even went so far to try re-installing from scratch the OSX and updating back to V10.4.11, then installing Wuala again, but even then after the initial automatic update I see again the crash of SWT before the Wuala user interface comes up. I just get an OSX crash report which may be send to Apple, but no Wuala error message, which could be send back to Wuala programmers. The content of the folder WualaSharedData/Updater/ shows most files in two version, both downloaded at the same time today: libswt-cocoa-carbon-3333.jnilib libswt-cocoa-carbon-3349.jnilib I tried the long command in the terminal and I still got the crash plus the following Terminal output: Adding lib994753600.jar to the classpath Adding swt.jar to the classpath Starting Wuala... -project WualaMAC Kolumbus 2008-05-24 04:16:02.064 java[918] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x337410 of class NSConcreteMutableData autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking Invalid memory access of location 00000000 eip=90a59387 2. This crash report above comes from a fresh first time installation of Wuala on a fresh OSX 10.4.11 with admin account. The ls -a says: total 16 drwxrwxrwt 6 root wheel 204 May 24 04:08 . drwxrwxr-t 6 root admin 204 Apr 29 2007 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 User wheel 6148 May 24 04:08 .DS_Store -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 13 2006 .localized drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 68 Sep 23 2007 SC Info drwxr-xr-x 5 User wheel 170 May 24 04:08 WualaSharedData ls -al /Users/Shared/WualaSharedData total 16 drwxr-xr-x 5 User wheel 170 May 24 04:08 . drwxrwxrwt 6 root wheel 204 May 24 04:08 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 User wheel 6148 May 24 04:09 .DS_Store drwxrwxrwx 43 User wheel 1462 May 24 04:00 Program drwxrwxrwx 17 User wheel 578 May 24 04:00 Updater – RK_Voila, on May 24, 2008 02:23

Here are some other things you should try:

1. Launch Wuala from the Terminal by the following command and let us know the error message:

exec java -ea -cp /Users/Shared/WualaSharedData/Program/WualaStarter.jar:/Users/Shared/WualaSharedData/Program/swt.jar:/System/Library/Java/ -Djava.library.path="/Users/Shared/WualaSharedData/Program" -Xmx256M -XstartOnFirstThread -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dwuala.basedir=/Users/Shared/WualaSharedData/ com.wuala.platform.WualaStarterMac -project WualaMAC Kolumbus

2. enter the following commands in the terminal and post the output (you can remove the lines containing directories/files not related to Wuala, but at least the lines for . , .. and WualaSharedData should be included):

ls -al /Users/Shared

ls -al /Users/Shared/WualaSharedData

This might help us in isolating the problem...

ok, got it :)

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

Post it as a feature request in http://wua.la/Wuala !

You seem to think I want to replace the current symbolic links (shortcuts), but I don't. I don't want to remove the current symbolic links, I just want a third option.

Naaa... But I want a soft link! People who want a copy, simply choose "copy file" - i choose "copy link" and want it to do that link and not silently do the same as "copy file".

The reason is is that I'm constantly updating the contents of my personal folder and don't want to update it on the group as well. There is different content in the group area and i want be able to put a link to my private stuff there, that only selectet people of the group can access.

You shouldn't take users for fools I think. Whoever knows what he's doing shouldn't be prevented from doing it.

I did make a copy. I was trying to make the point that I can't access them in my user folders using W:\ and let other people access them in the group through W:\ without copying.

@Patrick: you made most likely a copy and not a link.

@Patrick2000: With the current solution you don't have to think about access rights. So its much simpler for most users. Your idea is much more complicated as you have to adjust the access rights for each new group member.

Oh - ok! Thanks, Roger, for your reply. I used "copy link". I just checked and the behaviour is exactly as you described: I tried to make a link in Group Folder to one of my shared folders. This behaves the same way like links to private folders. Well, for me it's ok like that, I'd only suggest that wuala should give me an error/info message when pasting the link, and tell me what it's doing (copying files) - i thought it was a hard link.

I wanted to link to one of my shared folders, that i'm shareing whith almost everybody of that group. So I'd actually be even hapier if it did, what i wanted and create a regular soft link (which would then eventually be inaccessible to some unauthorised guests, but this sould be the concern of the owner/creator of the link to set up appropriate access rights in that case).

Greets

What I'm really having trouble with is this, I have a about 7000 files uploaded, but when I change the tags in one folder, it doesn't change in the other. Same with thumbnails.

@Patrick:
1. displaying links to directories in the tree view is on our wish list.
2. Take a look at the group posting folder. There you have a flat view of all files you've posted to your groups.

@Patrick2000:
Did you use the copy (link) action or the copy (file) action? I'm a little bit confused because what you describe is exactly the behaviour for the copy file action.

There are no hard links. If you post private stuff to a group, the files are copied to that group (again, there is a link in your group posting folder). Only soft links to public stuff are possible.

Just want to tell you that we haven't forgotten this one. It's not top prio on our current todo list, but it's probably top prio on the wish list.

We are doing our best to fix these issues as soon as possible.

The following aspects might be helpful for us to solve this issue:
- Did Wuala work on this machine before or is this a new installation?
- If Wuala worked before, did you do any other updates bsides the automatic Wuala updates, which might have broken Wuala
- Which version of Java do you have and what kind of processor is in your computer?

We are not yet able to replicate this problem with Mac OS X 10.5, neither with the older version of Java, nor with the newest update from Apple.

We are really sorry for the inconvenience and hope to fix this as soon as possible.

What Java version are you using? 64-bit does not work as SWT is based on carbon still.

I also have this problem. I'm trying to run it from an admin account. I have a MBP running 10.5.2. Wuala will try to run for about a minute or two and then claim it needs to quit. I've submitted crash reports when prompted.

@bagelcat: that Meta directory is empty for me...

delete the files PendingTransactions* in the folder /Users/SharedData/WualaSharedData/Data/Meta/

most times this has worked for me.

Hi,

could you tell us a bit about your set up? Are you trying to run Wuala from a non-admin account?