Colin Keenan
May 6th, 2010, 07:30 PM
Upgrade from 9.10 karmic to 10.04 lucid failed so I did a clean install. Followed tutorial to add "new" computer to my UbuntuOne account. It was actually the same computer wiped clean with a new install. I clicked on connect and waited a really long time but no files were showing up in my local UbuntuOne folder. I also had to keep clicking connect as it kept dropping the connection.
After waiting almost 1/2 an hour, decided to start manually downloading some files. I managed to save a few trivial files that way, but pretty soon, everything was gone off the cloud! The sync matched the cloud to my empty new install instead of the other way around.
I lost everything but those trivial files I downloaded before everything was gone.
Is there anyway to get the stuff back? If I had really added a second computer, I could just get everything from the first computer. But, this "second" computer was the same computer, so I lost everything. Why would UbuntuOne work this way? When first adding a second computer, it would make more sense to bring it up to date with the first computer by downloading all the files, not by deleting all the files online to make it match the empty new computer!
After waiting almost 1/2 an hour, decided to start manually downloading some files. I managed to save a few trivial files that way, but pretty soon, everything was gone off the cloud! The sync matched the cloud to my empty new install instead of the other way around.
I lost everything but those trivial files I downloaded before everything was gone.
Is there anyway to get the stuff back? If I had really added a second computer, I could just get everything from the first computer. But, this "second" computer was the same computer, so I lost everything. Why would UbuntuOne work this way? When first adding a second computer, it would make more sense to bring it up to date with the first computer by downloading all the files, not by deleting all the files online to make it match the empty new computer!