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[Andrew Yeomans <ajv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Because UbuntuOne has the "Connect" / "Disconnect" options, my natural
mental model is that it is a remote disk, that needs mounting (or
automounting at startup), but which has a cache on a local disk that can be
used when offline.

I don't really see it should be considered as an area in a regular file
system with magic cloud properties.

I might be persuaded toward the other view, that these are local files which
are kept synchronised. But only if I am allowed to apply that "synchronise"
property to any file or directory (maybe restricted to within my home
directory). There's no good reason I can think of why it should be limited
to a single UbuntuOne directory - I might want to have synchronised music,
photos, some odd files, browser bookmarks and saved passwords, but not
browser cache or plugins, to give an example.

"Unison" comes to mind - I currently use that to synchronise several
directories and files. Now the front-end of Unison is rather limited,
necessitating text file editing to get the desired effect. But having that
level of flexibility with a neat GUI that would let me open up "synchronise
properties" on any file or directory would be great.

Andrew Yeomans


2009/9/25 Alan Bell <alan.bell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

but the files are *not* on a remote server. They are on your disk in
> your home directory. You just work on them there or drag them in or out
> depending on whether you want them in or out of that area of your home
> directory. It is just a portion of your home directory where a remote
> server peeks in every so often and looks at what you have there. If you
> hold control down whilst dragging then it will create a copy, but I
> don't quite get why you would want two copies of it by default.
>
> Alan.
>
> Forrest Sheng Bao wrote:
> > 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
>
>
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