Ubuntu One has no "activity indicator", and defaults to "your files are up to date"

[James Lewis]

Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client

This is somthing of a wishlist, but it's also quite basic & irritating.

I've noticed 2 rather anoying things with the Ubuntu One client software...

1) There is no way to see if there is any sync/network activity.. and no progress indicator. There are situations where there is a vast amount of network activity to check the sync state, and there is nothing to indicate that this is happening, and the status is left as "Your files are up to date"... (see point 2)...

2) The status is left as "Your files are up to date", if the status is not known... when you first start the client for example, this is the status... until checks are complete, and any modified files start to sync. there is also no way to tell when the sync was last successfully completed...

I've had a problem logged in other bugs, where the status says that it is syncing forever, but no data is transferred... while attempting to resolve this, I have removed all the software and cache, and re-installed the client. Since I did this, it has been furiously communicating with the server, but there is no indication that any activity is happening from the client... and it states that the files are up to date, even tho I know they are not.

ProblemType: Bug
.home.james..config.ubuntuone.syncdaemon.conf:
 [bandwidth_throttling]
 read_limit = 0
 write_limit = 2097152
 on = True
.home.james..config.ubuntuone.ubuntuone.client.conf:
 [ubuntuone]
 bookmarked = True
 connected = True
 connect = 0
 show_applet = 0
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 7 04:04:16 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ubuntuone-client 1.1.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-020632-generic x86_64

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

James,
I was looking at your logs and i noticed something that might help your performance. There is a bug 455544 now that setting the bandwidth preferences to the defaults (clicking on the checkboxes and not changing the values) results in the read and write limits to be set to -1. The workaround is to delete the ~/.config/ubuntuone/syncdaemon.conf, restart the client, and don't set the bandwidth settings to the defaults.

In your case that would mean do the above steps but this time set the read_limit to something other than 0. Sorry you have to take this extra step the Ubuntu One team is working hard to fix this bug.

thank you for the suggestions also. It is ideas from users like you that will make this project a success.
duanedesign

[Joshua Hoover (joshuahoover)]

Hi James,

Duane is correct. This is related to bugs in the bandwidth preferences. We will be fixing these. I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug 509740, as the real problem is that the bandwidth preferences do not consistently save properly.

Thank you,

Joshua