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[Tony Willoughby <tonyw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't want to pile on, but I have had a similar experience.

My main motivation for using the paid service was to financially support 
Canonical.  But the fact is that U1 has never worked for me.  I've given 
up and moved to Dropbox.  I might come back and try again in a year.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+bug/443047

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+bug/478352



Forrest Sheng Bao wrote:
> I have the same feeling. If UbuntuOne can't fix the problem soon, users 
> will soon lose their loyalty. A part of the reason I use UbuntuOne is 
> because that I want support an open source revenue way. But, if it 
> causes me more trouble, I will leave it. I have been experiencing file 
> conflict troubles all the time and sometimes my new files got swiped 
> away by the sync though the versions on the server side were old.
>
> Cheers,
> Forrest
>
> Forrest Sheng Bao, BSEE, Graduate Student
> Dept. of Computer Science/Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University
> http://narnia.cs.ttu.edu
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Kyle Mecklem <kylemecklem@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:kylemecklem@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     To whom it may concern,
>
>     I am an avid Ubuntu user so when I first heard about Ubuntu One I was
>     excited to use it to backup my business's data. Unfortunately no part
>     of Ubuntu one has been working for me (using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic). The
>     application crashes as soon as I click it, the Ubuntu One folder hangs
>     on "connecting..." and the web interface is unresponsive when I
>     attempt to upload a large file.
>
>     I am forced to end my paid subscription with Ubuntu One and look into
>     alternative cloud storage such as DropBox, CrashPlan or Jungle Disk.
>
>     I understand good software takes time to perfect, but I've waited
>     nearly three weeks for the problems to be fixed. Am I suppose to pay
>     monthly for zero service? As a company that has yet to make a profit;
>     I would advise Canonical to spend more energy on the applications that
>     will turn a profit.
>
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Tony Willoughby tonyw@xxxxxxxxx
"Broadband never flew, it was always a duck floating in the water"
 - My 12 year old, with a fever of 101.5