Interesting "issue" with sharing files in Ubuntu via UbuntuOne

Reece Arnott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have used the built in UbuntuOne cloud service to set up a folder that 
is automatically synchronised with my cloud account and I wanted a file 
in this to be shared out so I clicked on the "Share a file" in the 
UbuntuOne menu and got a URL for the file.

I then sent this link via email and double checked that it worked. 
Yesterday it did, today it didn't. The difference seems to be that the 
file stops being shared out when the file is updated. I have played 
around a bit and find that the sharing URL is consistent for a specific 
version but if the file is changed then it automatically stops being 
shared. If I go in and share it out again, the URL for the new version 
is different.

What I am wanting to do is to sent out an email that says, "click on 
this link to a spreadsheet I am updating to keep up to date with my 
progress as I am counting down the changes I need to do for my PhD 
thesis." I want a link that will always go to the latest version.

Is this expected/known behaviour for UbuntuOne?
Is there a simple way of doing what I want to do with UbuntuOne?

I think I previously had this functionality with Dropbox but I would 
rather use UbuntuOne if possible.

-- 
"Believing men would act in their own interest was not cynicism, it turned out, but sheerest optimism; in reality men do not meet so high a standard."
-- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapter 84)
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Reece Arnott
Dunedin
New Zealand


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