Recently active ideas in Wuala tagged with storage

Hello Wuala employees,
me and my friends want to use wuala as a storage/share place for our projects.
since we work with videos, we'd probably want to buy storage from you.
The problem is, the user who'd buy would have all the capacity himself, and that's not the intention.
What I aim for is something like a collective storage, shared between our users.
some may need 2GB, others 20GB, etc. so it's not even about splitting it evenly.
I want it as a collective storage. (users are limited by what's left, but cannot use it for their own account)
Perhaps you can base it on a group, so the group members can share the storage, but we may make more groups later.
It's best in my opinion to have a configuration page for the buyer, either in wuala itself (prefs) or your webpage, where s/he can decide how much storage to allocate as "collective storage", and how to split it across chosen groups.
Ofcourse, it doesn't matter how you choose to do it, just that I'd love that feature to happen.
Thanks alot

It would be great if I could grant write access for a particular folder to some friends. Since my friends are not trading storage, they have only 1GB, while I have lots of spare space. Another possibility would be the ability to donate storage capacity to a friend.

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.

It would be nice to be able to pre allocate shared storage space, to avoid file system fragmentation. Even if this method allocated large blocks of space, like 1 gb at a time, it would still reduce the fragmentation.

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

hi there,

from time to time i need to startup a wuala client at some remote destination (clients, friends, whatever...) and just log into my wuala useraccount and just dump some files/data into my wuala-space. what i am wondering about how quickly i can logout/close this temporary wuala client so that my uploaded/added data stays alive in my wuala dumpspace.

it would be best if a running client when doing uploads, would first look for other clients running with the same credentials and then trying to dump the data first to these same-account nodes, or maybe after a while there could be also nodes of friends (wuala friends), or the nodes that a wuala node is closest to (network-wise) and so on....

sometimes i have only little time to let this temporary wuala node running, and i dont know when i am on the safe side so that my uploaded file(s) have safely arrived inside the wuala storage space.

maybe you are even already doing this on your clients/nodes, but it hasnt been clear, thats why i have posted this.

i have also read about your plans, there there will be a standalone wuala java-only (non-install) client, which could (probably) run from websites (applet) and so on, without real installation on any operatingsystem that comes with java support.

this would also make sense, to have these java (most likely) temporary clients to first try to communicate to other running clients of the same user, so that they spread modified/new data to the more stable and persistent clients of the same user first, and that those clients then take over the spreading and distribution of the data fragments/parts.

thanks and cheers.

It would be nice, if wuala had a bar, that shows how many storage I use.