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lately i have experimented with wuala and fileintegration on win32 (xp) and latest wuala builds (426). i was copying whole cd contents (different files, loads of folder structures) into a semi-private (group/friendshared(only 1 friend as an example/test)) to the wuala network drive (w: for example).

the copying went normally, but only some days after (this happened first some days ago, but i verified it today with other content (CDs)) i realized that the uploaded wuala content of the folder i copied the files into wasnt exactly the same as my original sources. some bytes/megabytes were missing, and i tracked down some of the files/folders that were created but only with filesize=0 (zero), or were missing completely.

i was copying the stuff with the help of total commander, so not the basic builtin explorer.exe functions, nor commandline copy stuff...

i might try some more of this stuff at a later time.

the missing/incomplete files dont seem to follow any certain rules or patterns, there are simply some folders that are completely identical/complete and some files are missing or come with zero size.

totalcommander never complained that it couldnt write to w: or anything else like that.

i was manually looking for the differences, found the missing/incomplete files and was overwriting the files on the wuala store again.

after these second tries and overwriting procedure the wuala store was eventually finally complete and identical to my source material.

i guess that some of the queues in the wuala client, the pending transactions, the chunk-creation and distribution or related functions and parts of the wuala client program are still lacking robustness.

please take a look at this and do your own tests with lots of files/folders and different objectsizes.
thanks.

sometimes wuala is missing its tray icon (win32). sometimes when auto-logon to windows xp (for example autologin with tools like powertoys/tweakui) is activated, the wuala trayicon cant be created/registered as the traybar (explorer.exe components or such) havent been started yet.

im not into win32 api details, but i think i remember that with at least winxp and later windows builds new methods and calls have been implemented into windows to recreated/redraw/register the tray icons and tray-related stuff in case explorer.exe / desktop crashes or restarts and things like that.

please make wuala work properly with the windows tray area or at least add a real quit/shutdown icon on the wuala logon window, as wuala can only be exited properly with rightclick on the traybaricon and "exit" there for example when wuala is logged out. when the traybar icon is missing, there is only the really unclean and hardcore killing way of the wuala.exe process left for quitting wuala, which isnt really nice i suppose.

also, wuala doesnt react properly to wm_quit message that i tried to send with process.exe tool from beyondlogic guys.

C:\>process -q wuala.exe

Command Line Process Viewer/Killer/Suspender for Windows NT/2000/XP V2.03
Copyright(C) 2002-2003 Craig Peacock beyondlogic org
Sending PID 832 'wuala.exe' WM_CLOSE Message. Timeout is 60 seconds.
wuala.exe (PID 832) failed to respond to WM_CLOSE. Terminating Now.
Sending PID 832 'wuala.exe' WM_CLOSE Message. Timeout is 60 seconds.
wuala.exe (PID 832) has been closed successfully.

so maybe you guys can add proper wm_close message handling of the wuala main app, or fix the traybar/trayicon handling or add a real shutdown/exit function also to the logon-window or the main wuala window too.

would be great thanks.