Hi Jenny Wood, Dropbox is usable on the mac. Not entirely accessible, but it is now usable. If you downloaded the installer from dropbox.com recently, you will have noticed that at least the dropbox mac setup is now fully accessible. That was not the case a while ago, so that is a nice improvement.
Second: why bother with the web interface. If you have more than one device that you want to use dropbox on, then the idea is simple. The dropbox website is your main place of storage. You can fill it with files, by having your mac dropbox client upload stuff to that space on the web. On your mac, inside your home folder, you have a new folder named dropbox. You can reach this folder by hitting command shift h for your home folder in finder. You will see documents, music and all your stuff there, plus this new dropbox folder. Go into it, and drop anything you want uploaded to the sight inside this home dropbox folder on your mac. The upload will happen automatically, without any other user intervention. A while later, you will find these files on the web in your dropbox account. Of course, dropbox will have to be running on the mac for this to happen. If you now install dropbox on a second device, say an iPod touch, an iPhone, or a windows computer, then all files in the dropbox space on the web will automatically be downloaded to the new device. All you need to do to make this happen, is install dropbox on the new device, and login with your account. To know if dropbox is running or not on your mac, you can check your users and groups item in system preferences. Go to the menu bar, vo m, go down to system preferences with vo down arrow, vo space on it, then move over to preference panes, and interact with that. Now go to users and groups. You can arrow around, or you can hit u s e in quick succession to have the vo cursor move to users and groups. Hit vo space to open this item. Then hit vo space on the login items tab. Move right, till you are on a list box with your programs that startup automatically each time you turn on your mac, and interact with the table. Look up and down and see if there is an item called dropbox. If you find it here, then you know that dropbox is always active from now on, and that the installation of dropbox succeeded. If you don't find it, you will have to redo the installation of dropbox, so that the dropbox item appears here. Once you have it in place, simply copy or move files into your home dropbox folder on the mac to have them uploaded to the web space. As soon as you synch your second device with the internet, all files you uploaded on the mac will appear there as well. If you delete something, doesn't matter from which device, it will also be deleted from all other drop boxed devices. You don't need the web interface at all, nor do you need to see the interface of your mac dropbox client. Just be sure that it is running, and if it's not, just start it from your applications folder, command shift a. If at some point you want to get rid of dropbox, simply remove the dropbox entry from your user and groups login items table, reboot your mac so that the dropbox process is no longer running, and then trash the dropbox app away from your applications folder Hth, Paul. On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Jenny Wood wrote: > Good day all. I have just started playing with dropbox, so I am very new to > this particular service. I understand that there are all kinds of > accessibility issues with dropbox on Lion, but I am curious, if there is a > way to download an entire folder from the website interface without sight? > The instructions are most definitely geared toward the sighted, and I haven't > been able to find a work around as of yet. I can manage to download > individual files, but going about it this way will take an eternity I'm sure. > As expected, I haven't been able to make heads or tails of the desktop app. > I am running Lion, btw, with the latest updates. Thank you for any help you > can offer! > > -- > > Jenny Wood > Phone: (972) 989-3894 > Email: kc5...@gmail.com > Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
