provide an official supported way to get large files from a user’s computer into CoCalc

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CoCalc: Collaborative Calculation in the Cloud

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provide an official supported way to get large files from a user’s computer into CoCalc #2223

Open williamstein opened 7 years ago

williamstein commented 7 years ago

This is a recurring problem. I don’t know what approach is best. Ideas are welcome.

IDEAS:

provide a wiki page with links to software for windows, etc., explaining how to split a file.
find some actual program that automates the process for users
do something clever involving google drive, etc.
????

Basically, we need a canonical answer for non-tech-savvy users.

johnjeng commented 7 years ago

Yes. But wondering how large is large? A size definition? A functional one like size based on chance of interruption on a "standard" internet connection?

haraldschilly commented 7 years ago

From what I've seen so far, everything above 50M is "risky" (i.e. it did fail for me once when I tried it).

Also, more general, such a wiki page should explain that several files can be selected and compressed in a .zip file.

williamstein commented 7 years ago

Any size. It’s 100% free to us by the way. There is zero charge for incoming data to gce.

williamstein commented 7 years ago

The motivating problem was a support request for a 650mb file.

williamstein commented 7 years ago

Now that we have an excellent SSH gateway with very nice ssh key support, the general solution should be “use rsync and ssh”. Still, we need some better documentation about this.

williamstein commented 7 years ago

I also found that there was a default 125MB limit set by cloudflare. I’ve changed it to the max they allow, which is 200MB.