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This somewhat ties into my earlier point about a Developer API, but its such a mainstream need/use it really could do as part of the application proper. Obviously a primary use of Wuala is backing up personal files, however, given how often personal data changes (and that while Wuala may indeed be super-awesome, most files perform better on a local disk rather than the integrated filesystem. Of course, if Wuala were to make its mounted fs bi-directional, users could take advantage of existing sync frameworks like Conduit or HUBackup.

It would be nice if there were more statistics in the program. Ones that I personally would like are:

Estimated time to complete upload of a file(I know upload speeds jump around a lot but maybe if you use the average for the past 10 seconds or something)
Estimated time to complete upload of all files pending
Under file uploads and downloads a time stamp with a date (for maintenance uploads too)
Total amount (MB/GB) people have downloaded from files I share (Separating Global and friends would be nice)
Total amount (MB/GB) people have downloaded from me if I share my hard drive (So if people are accessing my computer for fragments of other people's files I am curious to know total amount of information I have uploaded that is composed of other people's fragments)

feel free to add your own suggestions

i had the idea to implement a detailed view into the filefolder structure because often filenames are cut or you cannot see how big or small a file is
can you maybe implement a detailed view into one of the next versions ?

I would like to access my online-stored files with my mobile phone on the way. Therefore I would become realy happy if you could provide a client for Java midlet or (in my case) for Symbian Series60 3rd edition. Anyway - what do you think - is there a possibility to realize this for us?

hi,

havent found anything useful yet to my idea so i just post it.

how about letting wuala "observe" one directory for any new files (f.ex. images) and then upload them automatic. in googles picasa there is such a function which observes the directory and whenever a new image hits the directory it gets indexed. same function for wuala would be awesome! (making backups would be much much easier...)

if there is already such a function.. i havent seen it (maybe too blind..)

greets
jar

Hi folks,

I would like to suggest the following: Intergrate a function into wuala which allows it to directly synchronise one of its folder (or more at the dispense of the user) with the actual file system automatically.
As an illustration: I use FF A LOT meaning that I get approximately 5 useful bookmarks a day (most of which originate from stumble upon just like wuala originally did). Now I want to have a backup of those files ready in case my main PC crashes. However, I don't want to rely on my 24/7 online server harddrive for a backup but instead I want also to use Wuala for backing up my data. Now it is a tidious task to do that every day by hand so I suggest that a function which automizes this at a time interval chose by the user.

Hope you like the idea (and hopefully intergrate it soon)

Kind Regards
Darkstriker

PS: Alternatively you could emulate a virtual HDD to the system so that windows users could refer to their wuala space with (e.g.) H:\ and linux users could mount it as a hdd3 or something similar. I do, however, realize that that is not very feasable seeing the wanted system independence.

It seems that one earns storage as a function of 1) one's average uptime, and 2) the amount of "locally stored data." The first parameter seems reasonable, but the second is problematic.

The main reason is that it is completely outside my control. I have no way of increasing the amount of storage *used* on my computer, so I am completely at the mercy of the rest of the network. It even looks like my earned storage could decrease if the owners of the file fragments stored on my machine chose to delete the associated files.

I am allowing Wuala to use up to 20GB of storage, but after 3 weeks of use, only 3.8GB has been used.

I think it would make more sense to base the earned storage calculation on the storage limit, not the storage used.

I'm not sure if this is on the todo list, but I think it should be. It would rock to have web access to my wuala files. Then I could, for example, access my files from any university machine without installing the wuala software on it. I know some places are ridiculously locked down, so that you can't install anything, so a browser-based solution would work well.

Ideally, I could just go to http://wua.la/ , type in my username/password and it would take me to an SSL-encrypted listing of my files. It doesn't have to be anything fancier than that.

Maybe in some distant future, you would also provide an API for accessing data on wua.la?

Hi WUALA-Team,

I would like to suggest the following helpful function:
when having a lot of firends in WUALA, it is getting difficult to remember the person behind the nickname. Instead of adding a tag to the contact wouldn ́t it be a thing to make the nickname renameable (as you can e.g. in skype) or give the chance to add an additional line which is always apparent to me?

Tag,

mein Vorschlag wäre es, Wuala vertrauenswürdiger zu machen für Leute die keine Wualauser sind. Also speziell die Links wie wua.la/gado/LINKZUMORDNER.

Wenn ich jetzt einen Ordner über so einen Link verschicke sieht der andere erstmal "Open in Wuala", bei den Leuten die ich so einen Link geschickt habe, kam dann "Ich will Wuala nicht installieren" oder "Ich habe Wuala nicht". Also würde ich es einfach in "Open" oder ähnliches ändern um Verwechslungen vorzubeugen.

Auch sollten die User aufgeklärt werden, dass es normal ist, dass zugestimmt werden muss, damit Wuala starten darf. Wie es bei fast jeder anderen Java Software, der zugestimmt werden muss gemacht wird. Das bringt mehr Vertrauen in die ganze Sache.

Wenn man auf "Open" klickt könnte sich dann so eine kleine Infobox aufschieben, wo erklärt wird, dass gleich die Zustimmung abgefragt wird.

Vielleicht können die Seiten auch auf Sprache ausgelegt werden. Heutzutage ist es ja möglich die Webseiten Sprache der Herkunft des Benutzers anzupassen. Oder die Sprache über das Land im Profil des Ordnerbesitzers abfragen. Meistens sprechen die Leute den man es schickt ja die selbe Sprache.

Was haltet ihr davon?

It would be fantastic if it were possible to in addition with the "Local Data Folder" specify other directory's and how much space to share there.

So i could say like Z:\WualaShare\ -- 50GB, X:\WualaShare\ -- 200GB

I have drives that i would like to use exclusively for wuala but you can only specify one location per install. And i don't want my cache on those drives, just traded storage.

Browse files, open images, videos, documents, send them to contacts vie e-mail
Upload existing photos to Wuala or take new photos and upload them immediately
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Hi People,
I am running multiple PCs at home each with at least 2 HDDs. 1 of the HDDs is meant as a backup for 'more important' files or simply to add more storage. Now my problem is that Wuala can only use space on one partition. This means that I cannot share all the space that I don't need simply because I cannot divide it.

I would love to see an option which allows me to share Folders on different partitions and set a seperate sharing-limit on each of them.

I hope that this is possible and feasible for you to integrate since it would help me a lot!

Thanks,
Darkstriker