OmniClient - 31 characters is enough for anyone

I’m not reporting this as a bug, per se, just bringing it up as a potential gotcha for people to watch out for.

The user name field in OmniClient is limited to 31 characters.

(A quick test shows the password field has a 63 character limit – but I don’t think any of mine are quite that long!)

This might not seem a significant problem, but it’s just bitten me:

I used a 34 character email address to sign up to pCloud – which is not a problem on Linux or Windows. But I’m only now setting up CloudFS and failing to access it from RISC OS.

Obvious solution: Change the email address to a shorter one. Except that pCloud provides no way to change the email address for an account.

So the solution seems to be to just abandon that account and create a new one…

Except the Linux client doesn’t seem to provide a way to ‘log out’ of the old account in order to log in with the new account – so I’m uninstalling the client to see if that achieves it (i.e. by reinstalling and – hopefully – setting it up with the new account).

That uninstallation has been stuck on 75% for the last half an hour.

(I’ve still to investigate doing the same on Windows – that potential fun will be tomorrow).

All so I can share a few poxy notes between RISC OS and other platforms, some of which are remote.

You want OmniClient 2.25 from September, which raises the limit from its former limit.

I gave up on the uninstallation… although I don’t know how to do that, so I just rebooted the machine. Despite apparently being stalled at 75%, it had actually done it.

And on reinstallation, it simply logged me back in. :(

Logging back into the web interface for the old account, I discovered I could kick the client off from there – which did allow me to log into the new account.

And back to RISC OS, success with the new email address – this one being a mere 31 characters long. 8)

@sprow Ho hum, I didn’t know there was a new version – but it’s all sorted now, anyway. A bit of a palaver, but there we go.