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CloudPool 1.9.2: check the pieces, and know before you connect
Two things you could not do before: check that a split file is still whole, and find out what a service costs you in surprises before you connect it.
Check the pieces
- A file past 3.5 GB is kept as numbered pieces with a small index beside them, and the drive hides both, so there was no way to ask whether they were all still there.
- Right-click any file and choose Check the pieces. It reads the index and counts what is underneath the drive, downloading nothing, so it answers just as quickly on a 40 GB file as a small one.
- It catches the failure that actually happens: a piece stranded when an account is disconnected or expires. It tells you which one is missing.
- It is honest about what it checked. Every piece present and the right length is not the same as every byte inside them being undamaged, and the dialog says so rather than letting a tick imply more.
Know before you connect
- TeraBox now says it has no public API, so CloudPool signs in the way the website does and TeraBox can change that whenever it likes; and that files over 4 GB are stored as pieces which are not encrypted unless you use a private folder.
- Google Drive mentions the shared sign-in key, but only while you are actually using it. Once you have set up your own key the note disappears, because it would no longer be true.
- The note also counts accounts you already have, so a fourth of the same service says so.
- Services with nothing worth warning about show nothing at all. It is meant to stay worth reading.
Install this over your current version; from 1.5.0 you can install it from inside CloudPool.