If I publish several U1 files, delete some, add some, update their file content - will the public URLs of every file stay the same in the end, or do they change depending on the order files are published in and etc?
asked Jun 7, 2011 at 2:38
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1Have you tried it? It seems pretty simple enough to test yourself. Perform the publish/delete/add/change as you stated, and check the URLs :s Sorry, I have Dropbox and not U1 otherwise I'd help you out.– drgrogJun 7, 2011 at 13:11
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2I'd like a developer to confirm this with certainty.– Vadim PeretokinJun 9, 2011 at 17:14
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It depends.
Once you've published a file, if you unpublish it and then re-publish it, it will get the same URL the second time as you did the first.
You can move it within a Ubuntu One "volume" (that is, the Ubuntu One folder or any other cloud-synced folders), and it will retain its public URL. You can modify the file and that, also, will keep the URL. However, if you edit it with an editor that renames the file, creates a new one, copies the content in and then deletes the original (as most editors do), and syncdaemon is running, it will see the rename and the delete and your public URL will refer first to the renamed file, and then will disappear.
This is an unfortunate side-effect of the way we're doing public files, and something we need to change, but right now this is what it is.
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That explains why my odt file was getting renamed all the time :). Jun 20, 2011 at 20:23