We’re excited to announce the beta release of Jungle Disk 3.1 featuring Public Online Disk Sharing – further extending Jungle Disk’s collaboration capabilities! We appreciate your help in testing our latest release and look forward to your feedback. To download the beta software, go to https://www.jungledisk.com/downloads.
When providing feedback for this beta, please do so via our support forum here: http://support.jungledisk.com/forums/192792-jungle-disk-3-1-beta-forum
Here are the highlights:
Public File Sharing (Only Supported in Desktop Edition for Beta)
The new public sharing feature gives you the option to create new online disks and make them “Public” in order share all the data on that POD (Public Online Disk) through a convenient URL.
When creating a new disk, just choose what type of access they would like – “Private” or “Public”. Selecting the “Public” option will generate a random alphanumeric URL for that online disk, allowing you to share files with people that may not be Jungle Disk users.
We strongly recommend only storing data intended to be shared on your public disk and encourage you to be cognizant that bandwidth and storage charges generated by users accessing your public data may affect your monthly storage costs. To control some of these costs you may want to select Rackspace Cloud Files as your storage provider since bandwidth fees are not applicable.
** Please note: (1) The beta is currently for Desktop Edition customers only, but will eventually be offered for Workgroup Edition customers as well. (2) We plan to offer additional functionality with the final release of this feature to allow users to capture and offer direct URL’s to specific files vs. an entire online disk.
Sub-Account Password Change via Client
This feature will offer Jungle Disk Workgroup and Jungle Disk Resellers the ability to enable password changes on at the sub-account level through the software client, giving added protection and control to the sub-account holder.
Multi-Server Search for Server Edition
Managing and configuring your servers just got easier! We’ve added a search box to our Server Edition interface to find the server you need to access – much faster and more convenient than scrolling through a list of 500+ servers.
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Urda said,
July 9, 2010 @ 12:49 pm
So if you make say a Rackspace Drive, and create a public folder, you are just charged for storage costs correct? (Since Rackspace drives do not charge for UP/DOWN bandwidth)
Scott Gibson said,
July 9, 2010 @ 12:52 pm
That is correct…however, this feature is not designed to be leveraged as a CDN service. We do have limits in place to prevent excessive downloads and abusing the service.
Urda said,
July 9, 2010 @ 12:53 pm
“To control some of these costs you may want to select Rackspace Cloud Files as your storage provider since bandwidth fees are not applicable.”
ANNNNNNNNNNND I’m slightly stupid. Thanks for the tips regardless Scott!
Urda said,
July 9, 2010 @ 12:53 pm
Oh by the way Scott… will those limits be known to the general public? Or is it more of dark magic?
Scott Gibson said,
July 9, 2010 @ 1:00 pm
We’re not making them public just yet…but once we have the final release all of the limits will be known. We are considering putting some of those limit configurations in the account holder’s hands as well.
Gregory said,
July 9, 2010 @ 11:40 pm
This is great enhancement for Jungle Disk, and I’m looking forward to the stable release!
Justino Mora, Recruiter said,
July 10, 2010 @ 11:11 am
I am Desktop User. Can the Beta be mounted over the regular current 3.08 Win 32 Jungle Destop? without future impacts? Or it need to be installed in test machines?
dave said,
July 10, 2010 @ 11:55 am
where do we find the random alphanumeric URL?
Agi said,
July 10, 2010 @ 1:10 pm
Sub-Account Password Change via Client
Is this a feature that can be enabled/disabled via API during sub account creation ? It could be a problem for me if it can’t be switched off.
Sanjay Parekh said,
July 10, 2010 @ 5:47 pm
So do you have to have JungleDisk Plus to use this? I tried and it isn’t working (I don’t have JD+ since I’m an original JD lifetime user). Or am I not doing something right?
roberto said,
July 12, 2010 @ 7:19 am
Hi
I can’t find the beta reseller version in the download section.
roberto
Alex Leonard said,
July 20, 2010 @ 3:22 am
Hi,
This looks like it could be very useful to us (and could save us from sending large files via things like yousendit.com
For us we’d love to be able to upload files for a specific client, send them a link, and for them to be able to download it. We’d want it to be private as such, but I’m guessing that the random alphanumeric URL will be noindex, nofollow right?
Random string URL’s is safe enough I think for temporary file sharing, unless I’m misunderstanding the way it’s going to be set up to work.
Obviously it would also be nice to have a user/pass for web access for a specific client which would allow us to securely share data without the client needing a JungleDisk account (web access).
I have a feeling I could have explained myself better…
Cheers,
Alex
Scott Gibson said,
July 20, 2010 @ 3:06 pm
Alex,
Yes…we’re going to do another beta with a few more features to support much of what you’re asking for.
Francesco said,
July 28, 2010 @ 7:35 pm
How soon until a beta (or final) is released supporting the individual file sharing via links? That’s the ONLY thing holding me back from giving up my SugarSync account and moving everything to Jungle Disk.
Alex said,
August 4, 2010 @ 1:54 pm
Well, the beta download link is not there (https://www.jungledisk.com/downloads) isn’t it?
Scott Gibson said,
August 4, 2010 @ 2:02 pm
@Alex The downloads are on the specific product/os sections.
Alex said,
August 4, 2010 @ 4:37 pm
@Scott Gibson – I see, my fault. Thank you!
Peter said,
August 10, 2010 @ 8:40 am
Wondering in what direction you are heading with this product. We sell trees and have to store many pictures of trees on our servers where they usually emailed to customers. Would this Public File Sharing lend itself to hosting images in order to share them with customers? We would need to link directly to specific files or folders.
Douglas said,
August 16, 2010 @ 11:02 am
I’m running the beta on my 2 XP computers but am setting up a new Win-7-64 computer and came looking for the 64-bit 3.1 beta for it but can’t find it in the downloads link given above. I have checked the “specific product/OS sections” but can’t see it. Has it been removed? I’d like to run the beta on all my computers.
John said,
August 17, 2010 @ 2:50 pm
Are there plans to allow for authentication on the public drive. Would be great to allow/deny only those people who I want to access the storage site.
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Matt said,
September 4, 2010 @ 10:54 pm
Will this work without JD+? Like Sanjay, above, I’m a lifetime license holder and am curious about this new feature.