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Hi Gleb! The thing I haven't done due to the download pricing is back up very much data into B2. Since the B2 API doesn't support renames, you have to download
by cookiecaper 10y ago
Hi Gleb!
The thing I haven't done due to the download pricing is back up very much data into B2. Since the B2 API doesn't support renames, you have to download and then re-upload a file to rename it. I would be storing a lot more there if renames were available! [Note: they may be available now; I haven't checked for a few months. Please tell me they are.]
I was an early adopter of B2 and uploaded a bunch of files with naming that's incompatible with the "virtual folders" of the web UI (wrote my own script to handle this since Duplicity et al did not yet have support). Now I'm stuck and the only solution offered is just "pay us to download everything again".
Also, the web interface does not have any pagination. Since virtual folders are based on naming, and since rename support is not available, this can flood the browser. I have a bucket that crashes the tab every time I try to open because it's not paged. I could write a little Greasemonkey injector to page it myself, but meh, I don't really care enough to do that. Instead, I just don't really use B2.
When I discussed these issues with support and suggested that at least pagination on the web interface was a basic thing that engineering should be able to accomplish quickly, they did not seem to agree.
- budmang 10y agoInteresting. "rename" is generally not supported by object storage, but an API to "copy with a new name & delete" often is, which allows the same result. I presume that would work? (We're planning to add that in the future.) Pagination is on the list as well...
- cookiecaper 10y agoBoth of these things seem like such weird things to avoid adding, especially pagination. I can't be the only user to have a bad experience with the web UI because of this. How hard is it to add a simple pager? It doesn't have to be fancy.
- budmang 10y agoNeither is hard. Want to do both. Just have a list of hundreds of requests and have to prioritize ;-)