On rare occasions client wants to get a copy of files or containers as a backup or such and they don’t have direct access to the server other than thru FM.
Right now I have to zip download locally then upload to some file sharing service, and if the file is too big have to split the zip up. (that’s a lot of bandwidth)
I think it would be cool in the Otto File Manager we could select a file and instead of straight “download” be able to generate a download link.
I think this is a good idea. We could generate a timed download link for the file that could be used from anywhere.
I probably won’t be adding the ability to set a number of permitted downloads as that dramatically complicates the implementation of this feature. Is there a specific reason you’d like the set number of downloads with a specific link?
Re: number of downloads, I only mentioned it as it was a feature I seen on another file sharing site. (wormhole.app) - For myself not necessarily something would use.
A few other sites include a password but in my experience users would send the email with the link and add the password in the same email
I think a better option would be to include an option to delete the file after the link expires - this would help to keep you from having to manually delete the file.
To round out the feature an Otto API to upload and generate links.
For the FM files we would do the same thing we do form the list, which is that a backup is run when the download happens, so the file would be untouched by the download.
For the file manager we could do a download on folders that zips and a download on files that does not. That is how the downloads for the file manager already work.
This would just be converting to make a pre-authenticated link which could download one of those files.
