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Keep Local Backup option?
Where has keep local backup gone in the UI? Is there any reason this option would have disappeared on both my Windows machine and my macs?
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Inappropriate?You are right.
Some weeks ago if you disabled the backup, wuala said after 7 days that there was no local backup. -
Inappropriate?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. -
Inappropriate?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!
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Inappropriate?I would like the choice per file (or maybe folder) wether or not, and on which of my PCs the local backup is kept.1 Comment
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That's a good idea but personally I'd settle the functionality that we had before. Maybe someone can tell us why they took it away......... -
Inappropriate?Wuala doesn't keep a local backup any more. When a file is inserted into Wuala, Wuala copies it into its upload cache and keeps it there until it is uploaded. When the upload is finished, it is moved to the regular cache whose size you can adjust in the settings.
@Darkstriker: if you think Wuala occupies much more space than it should, please let me know which folders occupy much storage, maybe we can do something about it.
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I'd rather not wait for a file to stream where possible. The cache also contains files that I browse, right? My files can get bumped out of the cache if access a lot of other files? I also thought the local backup option would be useful for syncing files. If a file is inserted on one machine, it would definitely be available for quick access on another. Just my 2cents..
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Inappropriate?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?
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Inappropriate?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.
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There was a bug so the cache wasn't cleared correctly. If all your files are uploaded, you can delete the local2 any time (as long as Wuala is not running). This should have the same effect as clearing the cache in the options, with the difference that clearing the cache doesn't remove files that are not uploaded yet.
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It seem that indeed something has changed. But now there is something else which is unclear: My cache limit is 1GB It says that 800MB are used. When I click clear cache, 0.8GB turns into 2.5Gb (???) If I then close the Options window and reopen it says 2.5GB again. If I Save the options windows, it says 800MB and does the same thing all over... That really has me confused...
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I have a similar situation. My cache limit is 5GB. I had 100MB used and when I clicked "Clear Cache" it turned into 3.5GB (which is the size of my Data folder). Nothing changes when I click again on "Clear Cache".
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Inappropriate?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! ;-) -
Inappropriate?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...
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Inappropriate?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. -
Inappropriate?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?
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Inappropriate?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.
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Inappropriate?What if we could choose the computer where the maintenance is made?
I'm only saying this because I would like my Desktop computer to maintain all my files. My laptop's drive isn't that big and sometimes I'm at places with limited network traffic :( Or will my desktop download and maintain all the files in need if I erase the wuala folder from my laptop?
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Inappropriate?Currently it seems as if _only_ the computer that has initially uploaded a file maintains it, no matter what's uploaded on your account and how "healthy" it is.
This might be changed with anonymous maintenace, where you won't maintain only your files, but the fragments you get from others too. This only would owrk though if the initial upload doesn't go to Caleido but to the P2P network because I doubt that "The Server" can maintain all files in the Wuala network and still be cost efficient! ;-)
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