Hi Rachel, You have no idea how helpful that is. I spent about an hour yesterday afternoon trying to get a file to someone. :) Thank you! Cheers, Donna On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Rachel Feinberg <walksi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Donna, > > If you place a file you wish to be available in Dropbox, all you need to do > is right-click, or vo+shift+M on the file and choose the dropbox submenu. > Then choose the "get link" prompt. A web page will load, and the address to > your file will be displayed in the address bar. You can get to by pressing > command+L. If you want to make that file available for download, make the > beginning of the address like this: > http://dl.dropbox.com And leave the rest of the address in tact. Then when > someone opens your link, the file should automatically download. There's no > need for your recipiant (s) to have their own dropbox account. > Rachel > On Jan 30, 2013, at 5:22 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've only recently discovered the joys of dropbox, so have a couple of >> questions. >> >> First, if I want to send the link to a file to someone, it appears that they >> have to have a dropbox account. Do they have to actually have the dropbox >> app downloaded, or can they just have a dropbox account? >> >> Second, I have been in situations where someone made a file available to >> everyone--say on a user list like this one--regardless of whether or not >> they had a dropbox account. How does one do that? >> Thanks, >> Donna >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
