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CloudFiles is Rackspace's Object Storage service, based on OpenStack Swift.

CloudFiles is Rackspace's Object Storage service, which allows you to upload and download arbitrary objects/files. Object containers can be enabled to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make object retrieval faster for users.

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Linux memory management and large files

I'm acquiring image objects from a remote server, then attempting to upload them to Rackspace's Cloud Files using their API. Wondering a) how I can make this process more efficient, and b) assuming I'll need to purchase more memory, what a…
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Rackspace CloudFiles: Check for the existence of a file

I want to check for the existence of a file on the CDN through my site's code via the Rackspace Cloud API. What would the best way to do this be? I am currently using the following: ... initialize API ... Dim containerItemList As List(Of String)…
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Apache LibCloud and Rackspace Cloudfiles

I've started using the Apache libcloud library with python to allow me to talk to rackspace cloudfiles in python3 (pyrax is 2 only) I've got this running successfully and am uploading files / creating containers etc happily. Sadly, I appear to only…
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Create Rackspace Cloudfiles user via API

I can't find any reference anywhere on how to create a user via API for Rackspace Cloudfiles. I take it it is not possible? Is there any equivalent function to Amazon AIM API?
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Cloud Files API with Indexable Meta Data

I would like to use a cloud file system that supports adding meta-data that is searchable. I want to use this meta-data to store keys from my application to associate the document. E.g. File: /XYZ/image.png Meta…
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Reading a document from Rackspace CloudFiles using API

i have been using RackSpace CloudFiles to store certain images. I have the upload code working perfectly but when I try and read the image from CloudFiles it wont display it. The images wont render into the browser. The file is definitely being read…
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Accessing the size of a cloudfiles object?

Is it possible to grab the size of a cloudfiles object without retrieving the whole object? I have 500,000 files that I want to know the byte size of, but if I request the whole object on each one it will cost me $100 in bandwidth charges. I know I…
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How to synchronize a CDN folder to a local folder?

Is there a way to synchronize a CDN container (cloudfiles to be more specific) to a local folder? Or is there a way to bulk a download a CDN container?
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"HTTP method DELETE doesn't support output" exception when executing a bulk-delete on Swift using jClouds

When trying to execute a bulk-delete for objects in openstack swift using jclouds, we are getting the following exception: HTTP method DELETE doesn't support output connecting to DELETE…
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CloudFiles cannot to copy between virtual directory

I try to copy a couple of files located on my container using the method CF_container->copy_object_to('th/image_a.jpg',Object(CF_container),'th/image_a_copy.jpg') But when I try to copy a file that exists I got this message Specified object…
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Cloudfiles API with SNET set to true seems very slow

So I did as suggested here. But I'm still seeing some pretty slow responses when getting URLs for files stored in containers on cloudfiles. The application I'm building has a portion where users can comment. Each user has a profile image which…
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Paperclip & Fog: Getting 'NameError (uninitialized constant Fog):'

Paperclip/Fog works on my local machine (Mac 10.8.4), but fails on server (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). We have been using paperclip fine with local storage, but last night, migrated to cloud files and I'm getting this: 'uninitialized constant Fog'…
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using GetObject, the memory stream returned is null while GetObjectSaveToFile returns proper file

Rackspace .NET cloudifles API, the GetObjectSaveToFile method gets the file and save it properly in the specified location, but when using GetObject method, if i save the memorystream returned, the file is filled with bunch of nulls. var…
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How to create an object with Content-Type "application/directory" inside a rackspace CloudFiles Container with openstack.net?

I am trying to create a "directory" inside a Container, as long as I have read the rackspace api, to create it you should create a 0 or 1 byte object and assign the value "application/directory" to the Content-Type. I tried this: var…
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rackspace cloudfiles api - most efficient method to return container files

Using the Rackspace CloudFiles API (in PHP), there are times when I need to get just a list of the all the current files in the container. What I just came up with is terribly slow and in-efficient because it gets every object pertaining to that…
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