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mount all accounts with davfs2 and use unionfs-fuse to join all of them in one folder. works great. but I would recommend making a few accounts as backup account and adding them to unionfs folder as you need them. no need in mounting ten accounts if you don't need them.
I can say that I really love box.com. I uploaded with 20MB/s without problems, already over 40GB in the account and davfs is working great. much better than Dropbox.
and as @komo said duplicity is perfect for this because it does not care about 250MB file size limit. it tar/gzipps and splits everything in 25MB chunks.
Is there any incentive to invite rather than sign up directly with the Dell link?
Seems I dont have FUSE enabled, but how would one upload using curl ?
nothing
atm I don't use proxy/vpn so I don't want they detect multiple signup from same address, by using invitation I can signup later, no need to worry.
a few article are available on how to connect the Box to linux:
http://linuxfordummies.org/mount-your-box-com-account-in-linux/
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/03/automatically-mount-box-cloud-storage-in-ubuntu-12-04-11-10/
I Wish a feature they have is to be able to stream videos to your android phone but unfortunately it tries to download the complete file first before playing the video.. I've noticed this with Dropbox, Google Drive as well
curl -T zzz.jpg --user login:password https://www.box.com/dav/zzz.jpg
You can left password blank and it will prompt for it in commandline. Or a more complicated way: http://developers.box.com/get-started/
@earl did you've tried opening the file directly as stream from MX Player? Should work if it will be able to authorize.
No go it just says "sorry this video cannot be played" it's an flv file so it should technically work
Its more about on how client works. If you are opening it from box android app it will just always try to download first and then launch associated app. And this isn't wrong. Try opening the webdav url from MX player:
https://username:[email protected]/dav/path/to/your/file
Is webdav performance terrible for anyone else? Took ~30 seconds to return from "echo foo > test" and generally fails to copy files dragged/dropped in finder.
Ps thanks for the heads up @spirit
I use the share link that does not need a password at which point I input that in mxplayer under network stream.. but does not work
@spirit thanks got 4acc for my friends
@tehdan webdav performance is great in my eyes. single requests need time to start but transfer speeds are great. basically it is great for big files because the overhead is big.
this should not be used as a standard network drive but as backup device. you should probably see this mounted drive it as ftp server.
WebDAV support aren't great, people are often complaining about it. But at least it works and its free.
@earl share link doesn't gets you directly to your file download. It opens a page with download link, which is dynamic. Like with other file storage sites. WebDAV with username/password could provide you a direct download link, which should work... if MX player will be able to authorize correctly.
Is there any way to use a wildcard with this to upload all files in a directory ?
@nstorm I like webdav solution more than Dropbox solution with a special local folder where you have to copy files or make links to your files. on the other side is Box.com with 50GB probably more a backup drive than synchronization tool like Dropbox.
@nikc use the force of *nix. Something like:
for fn in *.jpg; do curl -T $fn --user login:password https://www.box.com/dav/$fn; done
@tcreu webdav != box.com. WebDAV are implemented by many other storage services. And the box.com aren't support their webdav part much. So sometimes it bugs, it can fail transfers it can work pretty slowly. If you compare it to other webdav services, not with other technologies.
for me is box.com = webdav because I would not use it in any other way. I have crashplan account but I like to have raw access to my files without any complicated apps.
@nstorm yeah I had several files not make it, or end up on the server empty - without throwing an error, there's a backup disaster waiting to happen
The webpage is nice and responsive but their DAV seems pretty useless.