Keep Local Backup option?

You are right.

Some weeks ago if you disabled the backup, wuala said after 7 days that there was no local backup.

I'm not sure I understand your response. I did not disable the backup on all of my machines. I run Wuala on four machines. On two of them, I want the files to be backed up so that they are instantly available. The other two are basically storage nodes and I never access my files, therefore local backup is disabled.

Are you saying that I had to backup my files on all machines?

The check box isn't there anymore and the setBackup function is not available from the command line version. It appears that the functionality is no longer under my control.

Hi people,

I don't think, that this issue has been addressed sufficiently. I don't want to have a local backup. In fact, I would too like to disable local backup even on machines where I do need direct access. This has several reasons. When I copy data into Wuala, I don't delete the corresponding files on my HDD because most of them are backups such as my Firefox profile and I hence need that on my local drive directly anyways. Therefore the Local backup costs me enormous amount of storage. Same accounts for the music I uploaded. I don't need a second copy of that on my HDD. I wont delete it from my library since that would be simply impractical but I cannot delete the unwanted backup by wuala. If I were to use the wuala backups to listen to music I would put my processor under a constant strain of decrypting which is just completely rediculous.
Concluding:
I want that option back since this backup feeds on my HDD space which I need for other things... and if wuala so desperately need the files afterwards, store the location on the local hdd and reencrypt until the network coverage is sufficient for the local data to be unnecessary.

And I am quite sure, I am not alone!

Greetz
Darkstriker

I would like the choice per file (or maybe folder) wether or not, and on which of my PCs the local backup is kept.

My Data Folder Occupies some amazing 3.3GB (on my prime pc on which i dont share at all)... That is roughly equal to what I uploaded from that PC. That is why I thought that there still was a local backup...

Should I just delete the files or is there another solution?

Specifically Caleido\Wuala\Data and in there most importantly \Caleido\Wuala\Data\Local2

Data is 3.333GB and Local2 occupies some 3.225GB of that and Meta occupies some 108MB (which is not that much of a problem...)

And Wuala doesn't Upload so i have to assume that all the files have finished uploading (and the program also says that)

I cleared my Cache before checking those numbers.

System Specs:
WinXp SP3
2GB DDR
amdx2 3800+
500gb wd sata
nv7900gt

contact me if you need anything else

If the files are spread out enough they will be moved automatically to your cache and can be purged there afterwards.

Edit: 3,3 GB is amazing? Well you better not look at my folders then! ;-)

Well I am kinda running out of space slowly on my 500gb hdd... somethin like 40gb left... so yes... 3gb wasted is an amazing amount...

Wuala seems to be very stable once a file is completely uploaded.
My problem is I am having lots of trouble getting the files in wuala without them becoming zombies. 1.2GB in uploads folder from a month ago.

I've reported this in this topic some days ago:
http://getsatisfaction.com/wuala/topi...

@Bugreport: Are you sure about that? So I just have to spread the files for a while before they go to the 'clearable' cache?

Well I guess it's like that, otherwise you would have to re-encrypt etc. the file every time you do a maintenance upload and I personally haven't seen that happening.