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[Forrest Sheng Bao <forrest.bao@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think, in one word, things should be as easy as iDisk on Mac OS X. In
iDisk, Mac OS X treats your folder on MobileMe remote server as a disk and
makes you access remote files like you access files on local harddrive. I
think NFS also made this years ago. This is a must-have of Ubuntu One. If
one thing is not convinient and intuitive to do, users will give up your
products.

Cheers,
Forrest

Forrest Sheng Bao, BSEE, Graduate Student
Dept. of Computer Science/Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University
http://narnia.cs.ttu.edu
Sent from Lubbock, TX, United States

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:55 PM, S B Malevich <sbmalev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm with popey on this one.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Pope <alan@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Andrew Yeomans <ajv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: ubuntuone-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntuone-users] Drag-and-drop from Ubuntu One folder
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:51:26 +0100
>
> Hi,
>
> 2009/9/25 Andrew Yeomans <ajv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Maybe I'm in a minority, but my expectation is that the Ubuntu One folder
> > should act in a similar way to a mounted drive.
> >
> > By this I mean that performing a drag-and-drop operation from or to
> another
> > "normal" file system folder would result in a COPY of the file, rather
> than
> > a MOVE of the file.
> >
>
> That's not how I'd like it. It's a folder on my system so it should
> act just like a folder. Dragging to it moves from local disk, copies
> from remote disk. Ubuntu One isn't like an sshfs mounted chunk of
> space, it's just a folder which happens to have some magic that syncs
> it to the cloud.