I am really starting to despair as I have been trying Ubuntu One for several months, trying it on several machines, and it has caused me loads of different issues wasting me a lot of time. It is not straight forward to use, it should be a piece of software that runs in background and users should not think about checking all the time if it is really doing it's job.
Of course I have been searching around this website and other forums but couldn't find an answer to my situation.
Yesterday I had several problems with the client not syncing and using a lot of the machine's RAM, up and CPU. I had to reboot on several occasions and leave the office's PC on overnight in order to sync a few files of not more than a few MB.
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Today I am experiencing another problem: I have decided to do a test putting a small file in my ubuntu one shared folder. Ubuntu one is not detecting it (now already more than an hour), therefore not uploading it to the server.
martin@ubuntu-desktop:~$ u1sdtool --status State: QUEUE_MANAGER connection: With User With Network description: processing the commands pool is_connected: True is_error: False is_online: True queues: IDLE
and
martin@ubuntu-desktop:~$ u1sdtool --current-transfers Current uploads: 0 Current downloads: 0
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 64 with all recent updates.
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On my other machine the transfer of files seems to be completely frozen, with around 10 files in the queue but no transfer whatsoever.
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Another curious issue is on my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop where Ubuntu One seems to have completely disappeared from Nautilus context menu, folder/file sync status icons missing. I have therefore been forced to upgrade to 11.04 on this machine.
Anyway, now I would like to solve the processing the commands pool issue and make sure the client
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ok, I have solved issue 1. by running the lines
and it started working right away I still think that the client should be able to solve these problems by itself ubuntuone should be more responsive, I am surprised that it has more problems than a third party service such as dropbox