How do you Like Ubuntu One?

[droadtrip]

I am very interested in signing up soon with Ubuntu One, possibly for the 50 GB at $10 per month. Have any of you done that and how is it going with that so far?

If you have not registered, could you just let me know what you think of the whole Ubuntu One concept please?

[Dayofswords]

home ftp i feel does mostly the same, just not automatic
guess i'm just not ready for the cloud, i like my feet on the ground

[vashman]

coming along good, though had too many problems with the connections, and can't count on some features to always work out. though I d see it being a good attender in the near future.

[droadtrip]

.... I d see it being a good attender in the near future.

That is good to hear. Not that I think Google is bad, but I like having more choices to put my storage rather than Google seemingly controlling it all. Canonical has old solid roots in online security. Whenever I am on the road with my camera, it will be nice to upload my pictures and video to the cloud for easy retrieval later.

[Dayofswords]

That is good to hear. Not that I think Google is bad, but I like having more choices to put my storage rather than Google seemingly controlling it all. Canonical has old solid roots in online security. Whenever I am on the road with my camera, it will be nice to upload my pictures and video to the cloud for easy retrieval later.
what do you have with google? didnt know they had a storage service.
EDIT:gmail account?

[droadtrip]

what do you have with google? didnt know they had a storage service.

I don't have this service with Google. But if it's not already here, then believe me, it's coming very soon! Google is trying to be the next "Facebook" and "MySpace" with their own variation called Google Wave. I'm sure Online Storage will be in there.

Back on subject with Ubuntu One, I am pleased to see Canonical putting their efforts to provide great service at a low price. They have to make some money to feed their crew, after all. :P

[PsychoDevon]

I haven't registered, but hey, it's cool to know it's there. I'm just always shocked whenever I hear anything about paying that has to deal with Ubuntu. This is the fourth, and 2 happened today. lol.

[droadtrip]

I'm just always shocked whenever I hear anything about paying that has to deal with Ubuntu.

I see what you mean. At least we get the 2GB storage at no cost and the free Ubuntu Family of Operating Systems to carry with us everywhere. That's a lot heavier than what Microsoft would offer for free.

[PsychoDevon]

I see what you mean. At least we get the 2GB storage at no cost and the free Ubuntu Family of Operating Systems to carry with us everywhere. That's a lot heavier than what Microsoft would offer for free.

Yes, it is.

The other 3 things that shock me that you can pay for are:

*This program called CrossOver Linux (there's also an OS X counterpart) that allows you to directly launch .exe files in Linux, but supposedly does it better than Wine.

*A book about Ubuntu, for noobs. I would think it would be like one of those books you get along with phonebooks, but apparently it is on Amazon

*A game for Windows Mac OS X and Linux I forgot the name of.

[JimInLakeland]

Ubuntu One is pretty darn cool. It shows as part of the filesystem. One of the things I use it most is for an automatic off-site backup of my most frequently accessed and updated files.

[darius.k]

I think Ubuntu One is a great concept. What I especially like about it, is that your data is not only stored online, but also locally. I'm not a big fan of purely cloud based concepts or thin clients for that matter.
Together with symbolic links Ubuntu One provides great abilities to keep multiple computers synced automatically.
Unfortunately it is not usable for me. I keep running into syncing and various other issues, when using it. I do not have any issues with Dropbox, so I'm using that at the moment. Most issues seem to be related to the way Ubuntu One does the syncing. Whilst Dropbox syncs files as soon as they are changed within its folder, Ubuntu One seems to do it in regular time intervals.

As soon as Ubuntu One is as mature as Dropbox I'd happily use it.

I voted both Ubuntu one is terrific and it's okay, since that seemed to be a good compromise between the given options and my opinion. ;)

[niw_uk1964]

As far as I am concerned it's pants. I can't get any of my clients to connect, so I am not willing to part with cash for the extended service when it just doesn't work (well for me that is).

[HomoGleek]

I see what you mean. At least we get the 2GB storage at no cost and the free Ubuntu Family of Operating Systems to carry with us everywhere. That's a lot heavier than what Microsoft would offer for free.
UbuntuOne works great for me! No problems so far

(p.s Windows SkyDrive gives you 25GB of free storage if I remember correctly)

[Hyper Tails]

I don't bother with it
I'm on Kubuntu anyway so it's not there

I put all my files on a 500GB external Hard drive so I can take my files anywhere I go and easily share them to.

[Digital Hick]

Unfortunately they do not have an option for: "I would us it if it worked.":popcorn:

[garryknight]

I'm on Kubuntu anyway so it's not there


I'm on Kubuntu (9.10) and it's there for me. That's it, just to the left of the 'i' icon:
http://i45.tinypic.com/plu7t.jpg

I could have voted for "It is ok. I can get better elsewhere", but I don't know if I can get better elsewhere. I've tried Dropbox and I've tried Ubuntu One and they both work. Since I'd rather support Ubuntu, I use One.

[andrea000]

I think ubuntu one is great.I do believe that 2GB is
a little on the low side of things they need to give
5GB for free but it's working great for me i have only
had a few problems with it and i have been using it
from the start.

[theozzlives]

I'm uneasy with Cloud Computing. I saw somewhere that they were talking about having Operating Systems and Applications in the Cloud. That seems to End Times, One World Government, Big Brother (ish) to me.

[gfe]

I split much of what I do between two computers, and I really like U1 when it's working. It seems to be working flawlessly (now) with my Karmic machine, but with Jaunty it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. I haven't figured out why.

[osomphane]

Actually, Microsoft Windows Live Mesh offers 5 free gigs and unlimited storage if you opt out of storing on the cloud (it will just save on all your machines) :)

[Mia1990]

ubuntuone is working great no problems here.

[Janeleaper]

I've just tried out Ubuntu One. I tried to make new folders. It usually took three attempts, and I could not find a way to make folders within folders, or move a file from one folder to another. It did upload a document quite quickly, but at one document at a time, it is too slow to back up more than a handful of docs, and I would not want to store much on it because of the difficulty making folders.

I do use Google Docs sometimes, if I'm going to need access to a doc from different computers, but I upload all my photos to Flickr, which I've found the most user friendly for photo storage. I can't see any advantage in Ubuntu One over Google.

[kspncr]

I've just tried out Ubuntu One. I tried to make new folders. It usually took three attempts, and I could not find a way to make folders within folders, or move a file from one folder to another. It did upload a document quite quickly, but at one document at a time, it is too slow to back up more than a handful of docs, and I would not want to store much on it because of the difficulty making folders.

This. Exactly this.

[Pollox]

I like it in theory, but it's not working well for me yet.
Pros: can have the icon appear in the notification area only when there's something to notify about (syncing, connection error)

Cons: various issues with it not working much of the time, consuming a lot of cpu during syncs, asking me to log in again, not cross-platform

It seems identical to Dropbox in concept, and when it's working correctly I may consider using them in tandem, but in the meantime I use Dropbox (for the purposes of backing up certain important files and being able to access them from any computer). The 2GB free limit is fine as I don't need to waste bandwidth syncing my movies/music, just my documents.

[Gramps]

I would like to have something like Ubuntu One that ran on a local server to backup and sync files between local desktops and laptops.

[BigCityCat]

I don't bother with it
I'm on Kubuntu anyway so it's not there

I put all my files on a 500GB external Hard drive so I can take my files anywhere I go and easily share them to.

I'm using it on Kubuntu now and it works really good. Here is how.

https://launchpad.net/~apachelogger/+archive/ubuntuone-kde

[BigCityCat]

I've just tried out Ubuntu One. I tried to make new folders. It usually took three attempts, and I could not find a way to make folders within folders, or move a file from one folder to another. It did upload a document quite quickly, but at one document at a time, it is too slow to back up more than a handful of docs, and I would not want to store much on it because of the difficulty making folders.

I do use Google Docs sometimes, if I'm going to need access to a doc from different computers, but I upload all my photos to Flickr, which I've found the most user friendly for photo storage. I can't see any advantage in Ubuntu One over Google.

If you copy a folder in your file manager and paste it into your ubuntuone folder it will create that folder online as well, but as far as within folders I havn't tried that yet.

[premamotion]

I think is one of the best idea implemented in Ubuntu!

[freesitebuilder]

I've signed up, but it's not as convenient as it could be.

I don't like having to keep files I want to sync in a particular folder on my PC. It doesn't autoconnect now, although it did at first.

I like Google Docs - most of my stuff is word processing or spreadsheets, and OO has a plugin that will download from or upload to your Google Docs with one click. For other files I use box.net

[candtalan]

I really like the concept, and that Canonical is offering it.

I have the 50gb account with 12gb used, and at the moment it is not working well. I am getting conflict files which keep coming back. I guess this means my data is not getting up to the web store, and worse, the webstore is not doing what my ubuntuone folder is telling it.

I sure hope this gets sorted out soon.

[gabo.cr]

I like the idea of Ubuntu One.
But I'm using another service and I'm happy with it.
If Ubuntu One gets as good as this other service, I would be more than glad to switch.

[JDorfler]

I'm liking it a little more than I thought I would. It's nice for syncing my documents amongst all my machines. I had been syncing my documents using the gdocs extension in OpenOffice, but considering on my netbook I'm using Xubuntu, it's much easier to use Ubuntu One. I do wish it came as part of the install on Xubuntu. I really hope you guys keep up the good work. This is going to come in really handy when I do a fresh install of Ubuntu when 10.04 comes out. It's a great place to put some scripts to get my new installs up to par quicker and easier.