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reto asked a question in Wuala on September 04, 2009 22:49:

How do I change the machine for a backup folder?

I made a backup of a folder on one computer, now I would like to maintain this data on another machine. Can I do this without having to upload the data to wuala again?

reto replied on August 20, 2009 08:04 to the update "Hot new features!" in Wuala:

Impressed by the time-travel feature, but what's the implication on the storage it uses? can I save storage by deleting the history of a file?

A comment on the problem "Non ascii chars in filenames don't work with nfs access" in Wuala:

True, I could rename my music collection and write a patch for sound-juicer to create wuala-nfs friendly names, adapt my workflows etc. Or why not, write an nfs client that renames the files on the fly (so that special characters appear correctly on the share but transliterated in wuala)...

but why should it be such a big deal to fix this in wuala? – reto, on June 10, 2009 06:50

reto replied on June 09, 2009 21:15 to the problem "Non ascii chars in filenames don't work with nfs access" in Wuala:

sure, why not to 8 and 3 uppercase ascii characters sequences separated by a single dot?

seriously, file names are titles and I've no intention to rename the artists of my music collection for them to have english names.

reto replied on June 09, 2009 20:21 to the idea "Get "the world" out of my world, please" in Wuala:

yes, the step to remove the world by default might have been a bit to radical, I think the public groups should be there by default, most active, not 18+ groups first.

reto replied on June 09, 2009 20:17 to the problem "Non ascii chars in filenames don't work with nfs access" in Wuala:

as a backup tool, wuala seems quite unusable now, quite frustrating not to be able to use my storage for the planned purpose.

reto replied on June 06, 2009 09:15 to the problem "Non ascii chars in filenames don't work with nfs access" in Wuala:

I thought the ascii times were over a while ago...

reto reported a problem in Wuala on June 05, 2009 20:33:

Non ascii chars in filenames don't work with nfs access

I'm using ubuntu and I mounted the nfs share using the following line in /etc/fstab

localhost:/wuala /home/reto/wuala/direct nfs defaults,users,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=120,acregmin=10,noac,intr,nolock,soft

the problem is, that filename of files that contain non ascii characters do not show up correctly, for example the folder übermut shows up as zbermut in the filesystem.

reto shared an idea in Wuala on May 16, 2009 12:43:

rename local file as well

When wuala has to rename a file for uploading, it would be nice if it would (optionally) rename the local file being uploaded as well (so that the local folder and the remote one areexact copies after uploading)

reto reported a problem in Wuala on May 16, 2009 12:31:

dialog suddenly getting the foxus sucks

When adding multiple files occasionally a dialog pops up to ask things like file renaming or image resizing, as this dialog gets the focus it happened repeatedly to me that I involuntarily selected something in it as I was about to press enter in another application. As the focus suddenly switches to wuala if I don't want to make random choice involuntarily I have to stop doing anything with the keyboard during such operations.

reto replied on May 14, 2009 23:34 to the problem "Stale NFS file handle" in Wuala:

I'm getting many errors like this (copying directories)
cp: reading `/home/reto/wuala/direct/myfiles/Images/IMGA1565.JPG': Stale NFS file handle
cp: reading `/home/reto/wuala/direct/myfiles/Images/IMGA1566.JPG':
Stale NFS file handle
cp: reading `/home/reto/wuala/direct/myfiles/Images/IMGA1567.JPG': Input/output error
cp: reading `/home/reto/wuala/direct/myfiles/Images/IMGA1568.JPG': Input/output error

reto started following the problem "Stale NFS file handle" in Wuala.

reto replied on March 12, 2008 12:05 to the problem "Contact the owner, but that's me!" in Wuala:

Actually I wanted to move away stuff from my Harddiskt to wuala as there is little space left on my disk. However the wuala/Data/Local2/Large folder in now 9.3 GB and getting bigger whenever wuala runs (till the hd is full and then wuala crashes). I'm not sure what the data in there is, the client is configured not to do local backups.

reto replied on March 10, 2008 11:39 to the problem "Contact the owner, but that's me!" in Wuala:

Ok, I'll have to upload again. What would be nice would be a checkbox "auto-rename remaining files" in the "Invalid Name" dialog. Currently its very hard to use my computer as they pop up and get the focus.

reto reported a problem in Wuala on March 10, 2008 11:10:

Contact the owner, but that's me!

I'm trying to access a file I recently uploaded and I get the message "This file has not yet been completly uploaded. Please try again later or contact its owner."

When I uploaded the bunch of folders wuala crashed, now it doesn't seem to resume the upload when I start wuala again on the same machine. Is there a way to force resuming of the upload?

Cheers,
reto

reto reported a problem in Wuala on February 06, 2008 14:49:

wuala not starting

Since the last automatic update wuala isn't starting. on the command line I get the following:
reto@latelap:~$ wuala/wuala
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal class name "com.wuala.obfuscated/FE" in class file com/wuala/platform/Wuala
at com.wuala.loader.Loader.run(Loader.java:65)
at com.wuala.loader.Loader.main(Loader.java:127)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassFormatError: Illegal class name "com.wuala.obfuscated/FE" in class file com/wuala/platform/Wuala
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:465)
at com.wuala.loader.starter.WualaClassLoader.findWualaClass(WualaClassLoader.java:48)
at com.wuala.loader.starter.WualaClassLoader.loadClass(WualaClassLoader.java:30)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at com.wuala.loader.Loader.run(Loader.java:60)
... 1 more

reto replied on February 06, 2008 14:44 to the question "How to run Wuala on a Linux server" in Wuala:

a feature to auto-login (or re-login oafter auto-restart) would be nice so that I can have the remote linux box doing the backup.

reto replied on January 30, 2008 21:06 to the idea "friend of friends....but wich friends????" in Wuala:

I think wuala should be clear about what data is exposed, who can see my friends? Everybody, my friends, the friend of my friends...? I think there are many situations in which someone might want to share some friends only with some friends.

reto replied on December 31, 2007 12:17 to the idea "webdav access to my files" in Wuala:

Hi Luzius, I know I can open any file with the wuala gui. Still occasionally it's good to be able to do things like "xmms `find Music | grep -v love`". Of course NFS and Fuse do the job (if they work), I was just thinking that webdav might do the job equally well while being platform independent. Also it might be handy to access the data on multiple computers running a wuala client on just one of them.

reto shared an idea in Wuala on December 24, 2007 11:06:

webdav access to my files

Getting NFS running is tedious, having the files accessible with webdav would be easier and usually possible without special privileges.