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Thanks for the reply. I didn't know that Backblaze was bootstrapped and I really do respect that. But this has been "on the list" for about a year. For an obje
by cookiecaper 10y ago
Thanks for the reply. I didn't know that Backblaze was bootstrapped and I really do respect that.
But this has been "on the list" for about a year. For an object storage offering, crashing the tab whenever someone opens a large bucket is not something to brush off. I was initially sympathetic, but since B2 also does not have an API call that will allow me to update my filenames (either 'rename' or 'copy to new name') to
comply with the "virtual folders" feature, which either didn't exist when I wrote my script or which I overlooked, I'm stuck.
I asked support to make a bigger push to get some simple pagination added and they said they'll register the feature request. I emphasized that this isn't just a convenience feature, but that it actually makes the tab too slow to use and/or crashes it (don't remember which right now to be honest), but it didn't matter. I asked support to make a one-time exception and find someone who could run a find and replace on the object filenames to comply with the new name structure and they declined to do so. The only option is to pay to download the incorrectly-named files and reupload under new names, which would cost a lot of money in download fees, not to mention a lot of clock time and bandwidth.
Of course, this isn't really intractable. To avoid extra charges from Backblaze, I could just upload the files again since I still have a local copy (for now), but that would also take a lot of time and bandwidth. I could write a client-side script that would stop the B2 interface's broken behavior, and that would make the bucket semi-browseable/usable via the web. But I just don't feel a need to do all that when I could use other solutions that are better about this kind of thing.
B2 left beta a while ago iirc.