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    Correct version?

    Thanks I've been running 370 for a few days now and the server seems way more responsive and I'm not having the same issues as before where the clouddrive was causing drivepool and scanner services to be extremely slow to start. I'm pretty sure no dead locking going on anymore. Yay! I was about to say it's 100% solved everything but just now I restarted to install windows updates, and I've had one of my cloud drives lose its letter and go missing from DrivePool again. DrivePool now shows the mysterious COVECUBECloudFsDisk___ . Now to be fair this time it's my OneDrive cloud drive which I know isn't supported so I'm not complaining! But what's interesting about the situation is that previously I fixed the problem by detaching then reattaching, but because it's got 2gb of data currently uploading it won't let me until it's finished. And because the drive is missing from DrivePool, that pool is now read only and I can't write to it. Because it'll take at least a day to upload (yeah I know my connection sucks, but so does OneDrive!), then that means the pool is out of action for a while. Would it be possible to get a reattach option that would fix this scenario? Also it would sure speed up the process of detach, then attach and have to reconfigure all of the options for caching.
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    Correct version?

    It probably doesn't mean anything but if it helps I just noticed my cloud pool has this warning: Duplication warnings...mismatched file parts... Files: \System Volume Information\IndexerVolumeGuid And just to be clear, this hasn't been caused by installing the latest version, it's probably a hangover from those cloud drives disappearing.
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    Correct version?

    I think I was getting deadlocks. I've left it running on a headless server for some time and come back to find one of the cloud drives had disappeared. DrivePool showed it as "clouddrivefs__" or something similar, so I restarted the machine. I came back to it the next day to see if it fixed it, but this time another cloud drive had done the same so 2 of my 4 cloud drives were gone. I chose detach on both of the drives and then chose re-attach, and thankfully the drives came back so in the end just a minor annoyance. I installed the latest internal build earlier for fun and the performance seemed significantly better. I'll leave it running and see how it goes. It's great to see you're busy working on it and making improvements. I kept checking the main site and the blog and I thought the project was dead! Would definitely love to read a new blog post on what the plans with the public beta are, although I realise you can't totally predict how long some of the complex stuff will take. Oh and thanks for clearing up the public/internal builds question!
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    icloud Drive Pool

    Yes. CloudDrive will map/mount drives that show up in my computer. You can then use DrivePool to make a single drive from those cloud drives. DrivePool works by making a hidden folder on the root of each drive. You can access this for recovery purposes very easily. Assuming you pooled 3 providers and dropped a file onto the pool, by default you wouldn't know where that file had gone (it's transparent to you). But if you enabled 3x duplication, then that file would end up on all three cloud drives. It is also possible to create rules in DrivePool to tell it where to put stuff, in which case you WOULD know where a file ended up.
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    Correct version?

    Apologies if this is a silly question, but what is the correct version of CloudDrive to be using? I'm still using 1.0.0.283 as it's the version linked to on the main site, but after reading a few threads I noticed that you're all the way up to 1.0.0.364. So should I download the latest version to see if it improves things, or are the subsequent builds very experimental? Thanks!
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    First impressions

    Thanks Christopher, With regards to the upload threads, as I'm currently using DrivePool across 4 different providers would I be right in assuming that if the files are evenly distributed, technically I could have 4 upload threads/chunks uploading at the same time even though I've set each provider to have 1 thread? As I'm guessing my original problem was that splitting my slow upload across the default 10 threads meant the connection was spread too thin, actually once I pooled 4 drives together, I might have had up to 40 upload threads across all the drives. If I could set a global thread limit, then I could safely increase the number of threads in each of the Cloud Drives. p.s. I purchased CloudDrive last night, even in beta it's significantly better than a lot of other products out there. =)
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    First impressions

    I'd like to start by saying I've been using DrivePool+Scanner for a while now, and they are seriously awesome. Everything WHS should have been. So much thanks for that. I only use it for home use but the one thing I'm currently lacking is an offsite backup. That's where CloudDrive comes into play for me. Being able to use multiple cloud providers with DrivePool is really powerful. Before now I wouldn't have considered it as I don't want to trust the cloud with my private files, but the encryption part of CloudDrive fixes that. So basically my use case is to pool as many providers as possible, and backup only the most essential data. Speed isn't important to me. On to my first experience. I installed CloudDrive and hooked up dropbox, amazon and hit a wall with microsoft onedrive. I eventually found the forum post (grateful it was stickied) and enabled it. I realise that their service is poop, but would be nice to be able to enable in the UI with appropriate warnings. I put about 10mb of test data in all of the providers and found that they all generated lots of errors and didn't seem to get anything uploaded. Eventually worked out by reading through the forums that it's probably because my connection isn't fast enough (8mbit down, <1mbit up). After massively increasing most of the timeouts, reducing the threads to 1 and destroying/re-creating the drives with 128k chunks instead of the default 1mb I managed to get it stable. What would be cool is if you had a benchmarking feature in the app, a bit like scanner's burst test. Then you could potentially have an "autodetect" settings feature, as finding and editing a config isn't the most user friendly first experience. You could also warn the user that their connection is less than optimal. The only other thing I messed up was that I assumed that CloudDrive was encrypted by default. Would I be right in thinking that with encryption unticked, the chunks in the cloud would be readable somehow? I couldn't find a way to enable encryption on my cloud drives after I had made them, so in the end deleted them and created them again. It would definitely be cool to have an overview panel of all of the connected drives. At the moment you have to hop through all the tabs to see what, if anything, is going on. Anyway hope this feedback is helpful, keep up the fantastic work. Max
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