I managed to get enough people to accept my invitation that my free account is 18 GB, thank you boys and girls for helping me out that way.
David Ferrin A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked perfectly. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 12:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Help using Dropbox. Please. Yeah, I thought it was 2GB when I wrote it, but my dropbox said I had 97% of 5GB used. Its possible I got credits for a larger size, though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ferrin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Help using Dropbox. Please. > Unless it has been changed the free account is 2 GB according to my > memory. > The slowness is because of all the indexing and uploading your system > is doing right now. I do not believe it is for a catch all kind of > service but more for saving things and synchronizing them between > systems. > > David Ferrin > A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have > evolved from a simpler system that worked perfectly. > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Steve > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Help using Dropbox. Please. > > Theoretically, yes you can retrieve it through the cloud if you put in > your account and password. I assume you paid for extra access, or you > don't have much data as the standard free account is 5gb. > > I can only speculate here. Did you go into your dropbox menu and make > sure it was done syncing all of your data to your account? If not, > that might account for your computer being slower. > > If it is your internet that is slower, you can go into Dropbox by > right-clicking it, open the prefernces submenu, use your Jaws cursor > to click the bandwidth tab, and you can limit uploads using the > automatic setting or you can specify a percentage of your upload > capacity. You can also change download speed, but that usually isn't > an issue so I leave mine at automatic. > > Take my advice, I don't use it anyway. > > Steve > Lansing, MI > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rich" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 9:49 PM > Subject: [JAWS-Users] Help using Dropbox. Please. > > >> Hi all, >> I have XP and 14 and Internet Explorer 8. >> I've just downloaded "Dropbox". >> I'm not sure how to use it. >> I copied and pasted everything that was in "My Documents" in to Dropbox. >> It took a while. >> My assumption is that Dropbox will keep all of these files/folders in >> the "cloud" and I could retrieve them from another computer or if I >> had a crash in the future. >> I'm not sure how to automatically save all of my e mails on to dropbox. >> >> The Dropbox site had a link to use the most current version of a browser. >> Is that necessary? >> >> Also, the computer is working extremely slow now. >> >> Please give advice on these issues. >> >> Thank you so much. >> >> >> Rich >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
