AllPeers Auto-Download
To my surprise, I just realized that we never explicitly announced our new auto-download feature here. P2P sharing has a lot of advantages, but it also has one major drawback: people can only download files from you if you are online. We’ve always attenuated this somewhat by keeping track of who you’ve shared with and using them as alternative sources. As of version 0.70, we have another way to address this: auto-download.
You can turn on auto-download for a whole group or for a specific contact by right-clicking on them in the Navigator and choosing “Auto-Download”, or by left-clicking on them to open their page and clicking the Auto-Download link there. If you selected a single contact, you need to uncheck “Use Group Setting” before changing other settings. If you like, you can restrict auto-download to specific file types or limit the size of files that are automatically downloaded.
I keep auto-download turned on for my family, and it’s proven extremely useful since they’re all in distant timezones. It’s great to wake up in the morning and find that your files are already there, even if the person who shared them is offline.
We’re going to keep on working to give you the best of the P2P and centralized hosting worlds. We hope that you find auto-download to be a worthwhile step in that direction.
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i was thinking how it would be great if i can integrate my social network site (through some api maybe?) with allpeers to share files. is it possible?
Comment by nec — 9/26/2007 @ 5:24 am
ok
Comment by dejouany — 9/26/2007 @ 12:33 pm
hey i wish i could see other users of allpeer… so i could share my stuff with them..
Comment by Krishna — 9/27/2007 @ 12:45 pm