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Recently, James Henstridge from my team at Ubuntu One released u1ftp, a simple app to provide FTP access to Ubuntu One. It's deliberately designed so that it works across platforms; whether you're on Windows or OS X or Ubuntu or Kubuntu or Fedora or whatever, it should work for you, so you can access your Ubuntu One storage via FTP, and therefore if you want to you can mount your U1 storage as a drive in your file manager.

As James says, just download u1ftp-0.1.zip from https://launchpad.net/u1ftp/+download, and then run it with python u1ftp-0.1.zip, on any platform*. (You don't need to unzip it!)

You can then use your file manager, or a dedicated FTP client, to connect to localhost, port 2121, log in with your Ubuntu One username and password, and then you have your Ubuntu One storage right there. This should be useful if you don't have Ubuntu One set up on a particular machine or if it's not yet available on that machine, for headless servers, for copying lots of files into and out of Ubuntu One all in one go; let us know what you're doing with it!

u1ftp on Ubuntu

u1ftp on Fedora

u1ftp on Windows

u1ftp on Mac OS X

u1ftp on a headless Linux server

$ sudo apt-get install curlftpfs # or install your own way
# it installs...
$ wget https://launchpad.net/u1ftp/trunk/0.1/+download/u1ftp-0.1.zip
--2012-07-17 13:01:10--  https://launchpad.net/u1ftp/trunk/0.1/+download/u1ftp-0.1.zip
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 289783 (283K) [application/zip]
Saving to: `u1ftp-0.1.zip'
2012-07-17 13:01:11 (1.08 MB/s) - `u1ftp-0.1.zip' saved [289783/289783]
$ python u1ftp-0.1.zip 
Listening on ftp://127.0.0.1:2121/

# in a different terminal, mount your U1 storage in a folder...
$ mkdir u1storage
$ curlftpfs ftp://my.u1.email%40address:myU1password@localhost:2121/ u1storage/ 
# or use netrc(5) to keep password secret
# you may be asked to create and enter a keyring password in the u1ftp terminal
$ ls u1storage/
deja-dup_faith          Music_Audiobooks               Pictures - Nexus S
Documents               Music_Everything               Purchased Music
Scratch                 Thunderbird Attachments
Sent to Ubuntu One      Ubuntu One
# do whatever you want with your U1 storage...

$ fusermount -u u1storage/ # unmount the folder