Hi Paul. Thank you very much for the response! For some reason, I have never successfully setup dropbox on my mac, apparently. So, I scrapped all of the previous installation and installers, revisited dropbox.com and started fresh. This time, I did manage to make get through the setup process without a hitch. Dropbox is running, and my dropbox folder is created and ready for use. I think my only question at this point is, I still have a folder containing many files on the website. I would love to have them sync to my mac, or somehow retrieve them. They were placed there by another dropbox user who I had invited to access my new folder. However, I am unable to find a way to actually download them to my computer. As I say, dropbox is definitely running, but I don't see anything at all in the new dropbox folder. Does it perhaps take some time for this to happen?
Thank you! -- Jenny Wood Phone: (972) 989-3894 Email: kc5...@gmail.com Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > 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. 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