Hello, I consider myself to have an average to above knowledge of current tech. However, dropbox is an app I have never had the need to use until I was asked to work with an Internet Radio station handling their public relations. I have had friends who make good use of dropbox. Therefore, having been asked by the station owner to set it up, I obliged and am still learning to use it. Again thank you ever so much.
Pam Francis On Aug 16, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: Pam, You are very welcome. Through your response, you have given much more than you've received. Andrew > On 16 Aug 2014, at 20:05, Pamela Francis <gypsykitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > Now I know why I belong to this list. There are those of you on here who are > very helpful, detailed, and willing to give useful instruction freely. I am > most grateful > thank you > > Pam Francis > > On Aug 16, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Pamela, > > Dropbox won't show you anything useful when you launch the app from your > applications folder, as someone else already wrote. A way to determine if > dropbox is currently running, is to check your finder status menu, using VO > plus m, as in mike, twice in succession as you hold the VO keys down. Once > you are in the status menu bar, find dropbox using VO left or right. If > dropbox is running, you will find its menu item here. If not, the dropbox > item won't be there. > > Once you are on the dropbox menu item, hitting VO space won't help. On my > Mavericks system, it did the trick to hit VO command plus f5, followed by VO > shift space. This command VO f5 keystroke will take the mouse pointer right > to where you are working with the VoiceOver cursor. Then, you can let > VoiceOver perform a real mouse click, using VO plus shift space. > > One way you might want to remember this keystroke is the following: VO plus > space clicks as usual, where the click is performed at the screen location of > your VoiceOver cursor. The real mouse pointer stays where it is in this case. > Whereas, if you hit VO space combined with shift, so VO shift space, then > VoiceOver clicks on the screen for you, at the spot where your real mouse > pointer currently is. Having said that, now the dropbox dialog should be open. > > Now, go all the way to the end of the screen, and you will find a settings > button there. Try VO space clicking this. If a menu does not appear, then do > the same trick as above. Route your mouse pointer to this settings button > using VO command f5, and have VoiceOver do the real mouse click for you using > VO shift space. On my Mavericks system, the context menu then opens. >From > it, I can see how much dropbox space I'm using, and there is also a menu item > to quit dropbox if you need that. > > Regarding what you can share and what you cannot share: > Dropbox starts you out with a certain amount of storage, something like 2 > gigabytes. So, anything larger than that, obviously won't fit, so you cannot > share anything larger than your storage space in dropbox. > > If you want, you can increase your dropbox space in a number of ways. The 2 > free ones I know of, are: > 1. You can use the dropbox website, log in there with your email address and > dropbox password, and then you can refer some of your friends to dropbox, > hoping they will start using it. If one of them installs dropbox, then both > of you will get extra space. I don't know how that currently is, but it used > to be 500 mb. So, starting out with 2 gb free dropbox space, referring > dropbox to 2 friends already gives you an extra 1 gb. As I said, it is not > enough to refer. Only if they really download and start using dropbox, you > will gaign extra free space in your own dropbox. > > 2. If you have an iphone or ipad, and you have dropbox installed on it, you > can go into the dropbox settings there, and then turn on camera uploads. What > that does is, that when you take any picture or video with this I device, it > will automatically upload straight into your private dropbox folder. I don't > know why dropbox gives you bonus space if you turn that on, but it did indeed > increase my dropbox space. > > Once you have dropbox running, then in your finder home directory, command > shift h, besides all your other stuff like documents, music, movies etc, you > will find a new folder called dropbox. If you want to share a file with > someone else, here is one way to do that. > > First, place the file you want to share into this new dropbox folder. So, > command c on the file, then go command shift h to land in your personal home > directory, and then go into your dropbox folder. Once there, hit command v to > paste the file and it will be there. Once the file is in this folder, the > dropbox program that was installed on your mac, sees this new file coming in. > This will automatically start the upload process. The file will then go from > your mac dropbox folder, over to the dropbox.com website. Once it is stored > on dropbox.com, other people can download that file, but only if you give > them the link to that file. A way to do this, is the following. > > To get the link to your file on dropbox.com, simply go into your dropbox > folder on your mac, hit VO shift m to open the context menu, and beside menu > items like open, move to trash etc, you will also find an item labeled share > dropbox link. Hit that, and safari will open with the dropbox site. Take a > close look at this site, and fill in the email address of the recipient of > the file. There will also be a button like send, okay or something alike. > Once you complete this form on the website, your recipient will receive an > email message, containing the link to the file on which you hit VO shift > space, and chose: share dropbox link. Once your recipient receives this email > message and clicks this link, their browser will go over to dropbox.com, and > get the file there, downloading it to your recipient's computer. That is one > way to share a single file. This is handy, in instances where you > incidentally send someone a file. > > Now let's say, that your recipient and also you yourself are already using > dropbox. Then if you regularly exchange files, what you could do, is create > a shared dropbox folder. Say you call this folder: Pam and John. This is a > folder, that you create yourself, in finder, as a subfolder of your mac's > dropbox folder, on your machine. Then, you tell the dropbox website that > there is one special folder inside your own dropbox, named Pam and John. If > you choose to share a folder with someone else, you tell the site which > folder you want to share, in this case Pam and John, and then the site will > send an email to John. In it, there's a link to accept sharing a folder from > you. If he accepts, then in his own dropbox folder, your new Pam and John > folder will appear as well. So, from now on, you have a Pam and Jon folder, > while John has the same folder in his dropbox folder as well. From now on, if > you put a file inside the dropbox/Pam and John folder on your own > machine,then John will immediately receive a copy of that file, and you're > done. Here's how this actually works. > > The new file inside the shared Pam and John folder, will first upload to > dropbox.com as usual, but then the next time John turns on his machine, and > dropbox starts there, then dropbox.com will automatically send him the new > contents of the folder you are now sharing. > > In short: once you have a shared dropbox folder with someone else, and you > want to send a file to your friend, all you do is put that file in your > shared folder, wait till it is uploaded to dropbox.com, wait till it > automatically downloads into his machine, and then your friend has the file. > If any of you two delete the file from your shared folder, then it will also > be removed from dropbox.com, and also from your friend's shared dropbox > folder. So in a way, you have limited control over files that appear on your > friend's computer, because you can make files appear and disappear, as long > as you work inside the shared dropbox folder on your own mac. All actions you > take there, like adding, even editing a file, will then be syncrhnized to > your friend's machine. This dropbox feature is very useful. And it actually > works both ways. Just because you created and shared this folder, does not > give you any extra possibilities. Both you and John can now manage this > shared folder, that's it. > > A shared dropbox folder is the simplest way I know of, to quickly share one > or more files with a friend. Just put it into the shared folder and your > friend has it in seconds. Only setting up the shared folder is a little bit > cumbersome on the dropbox site as far as I remember, but it's doable. > > Hth, > Paul. > > > >> On Aug 16, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Pamela Francis <gypsykitt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks Deb, >> At least I know I'm not crazy. >> The question I would have if I can't open the app or control its menus >> without a real mouse, how do I determine what I can and can't share or who >> can & can't share files or folders with me? >> >> Pam Francis >> >> On Aug 16, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Deb Lewis <deblewi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dropbox does not do anything when you open the app except start the app. If >> you are not signed in, you will have to do this from the context menu. As I >> recall the only way you can open that context menu is using the real mouse. >> When it's finally set up there will be a folder in your home directory but >> the app will always look blank if you open it. >> >>> On Aug 16, 2014, at 5:09 AM, Pamela Francis <gypsykitt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello list, >>> I have an issue with an installation or lack of with dropbox on my Mac. I'm >>> signed up correctly on their website. It says I have not installed the >>> application. However it shows up in my applications folder. When I try to >>> open it, I get no screen of any kind. I thought about uninstalling the >>> whole thing & starting over, yet it won't let me because it says it's still >>> open. How do I close it when I don't know how to get to it or can't get its >>> menus to stay open? 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