Web file browser: Pause upload

[xhorsky1]

Dear all.

Would adding a "pause upload" functionality to the Onedata web file browser be possible? I believe such functionality would be convenient for users in various use cases. As an example of such a use case, I would have used it today to pause the upload of a larger file (> 600 GB) halfway through to quickly upload a smaller file so that my coworkers could use the dataset in the smaller file in a timely manner.

With kind regards
Vladimír

[lopiola]

Dear Vladimir,

Thank you for reaching out and for your suggestion.

In fact, we do plan some improvements to the upload mechanisms in the foreseeable future. We wanted to deal mostly with the problem of interrupted uploads (especially with large files) so that it would be possible to pick up where the upload left off. This is very close to the “pause” feature because the mechanisms behind the scenes would be pretty much the same. However, this is true for a global “pause” action that would pause all uploads. To achieve file-granularity pausing, there is much more work to do (related to the scheduling and balancing of uploads). I can promise that we will consider both options when we have the opportunity to work on uploads.

This is not a high priority right now, but I think we will get to that sooner or later.

For now, a workaround for your use case is to open another tab/window with the file browser and perform another upload of a small file. Though the two uploads will fight each other for network throughput, the small file will not be blocked.

Cheers,
Lukasz

[xhorsky1]

Dear Lukasz.

Thank you for your reply and your workaround suggestion, which works for my use case.

With kind regards
Vladimír