Hi Esther, Thanks, I figured it out. The folder you back up to the cloud shows up as an alias on the computer in which you backed it up. However, when I went to my other computer, it showed up as a folder. That was what confused me at first. I hope I explained this okay.
Courtney Tune into my show, moopie's mix, every Thursday morning at 2 UTC or 10 PM Eastern on the Global Voice Internet Radio, http://www.theglobalvoice.info. Moopie's Mix can also be downloaded from the program gallery on that site. On Sep 19, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Courtney, > > I'm not sure I understand your question. This program creates a symbolic link > for items on one computer to a location in your Dropbox so that you can > easily put those things into your Dropbox. Once the item in question is in > your Dropbox, you can access the Dropbox folder ant way that you like from > another computer, can't you? Maybe Sarah has more insights into your > question and can address it better than I can, or maybe I have misunderstood > how this program works. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Sep 19, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Courtney Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I tried this cool app, but if it backs up as an alias, how can I >> access that folder on a different computer? >> Thanks, >> Courtney >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Sep 19, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> This backs up to dropbox, sky drive and google drive. it is 100 percent >>> accessible and I just used it to back up a folder where I keep back ups of >>> various things. >>> >>> Here is th slink on mac update's site. >>> >>> http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37029/macdropany >>> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
