[ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

[Gareth France]

On 02/04/14 17:12, Paul Tansom wrote:
> ** Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> [2014-04-02 14:58]:
>> On 2 April 2014 14:19, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Seems to be
>>> http://blog.canonical.com/2014/04/02/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services/
>>> now
>> Yeah, the blog date was massaged just after I sent the mail.
>> Apparently people don't believe you if you post announcements with the
>> date being 1st April. Who knew? :)
> ** end quote [Alan Pope]
>
> Ah well, I never did get it working on anything but my phone. I battled for a
> while and then stuck with Dropbox, not sure whether I'm glad of that now or not
> since I'm planning to move anyway as Dropbox have just completely screwed my
> data - I tidied things up and reorganised directories and following that
> they've synced all my changes up to the server and all the files on the server
> that were in the original locations have been sync'd back down to my PC.
> Unfortunately I didn't twig quickly enough, so with applications remembering
> where documents were I now have some updates in the new locations and some in
> the old. To make matters worse some of my personal files have been sync'd up to
> a shared folder that I don't own (only my wife's but it could have been worse).
>
> Any chance the U1 software will be released as packages in the Ubuntu
> repositories? Clearly somebody needs to take on maintenance of it, but it could
> be an interesting competitor to Owncloud.
>
> Younited from F-Secure is where I was thinking of moving, but I'm having issues
> getting the Windows client installed (not a major issue as I rarely use
> Windows). More significantly the Linux client (in beta) doesn't support 32 bit
> (there goes support for my netbook) or Ubuntu 12.04 (another problem for my
> netbook). Off to investigate Owncloud and SpiderOak I think!
>
This is the exact reason I stopped using U1 for anything heavy or 
important. It just wasn't intelligent enough to know what I wanted it to do.