Hi, If you're not seeing Google Drive in the Menu Extras, then it's not properly logged in, and that would be the same for DropBox. Could you give more details on your problems with the menus and menu Extras? That sounds like an odd problem.
Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 13, 2019, at 18:50, Lorie McCloud <[email protected]> wrote: part of my problem is that menu extras doesn't work correctly on my Mac. it will seldom show me Google drive and sometimes not even dropbox although I see that more often. after I have been trying to get menu extras to work right 2 or 3 times I can no longer even get the Apple menu to put my commputer to sleep. if I press the button and don't hold it too long then it gives me the Aple menu options. something's wrong but I can't figure out what it is. yes. you're right. I'm using backup and sync. that's what it wants to use. > On Feb 13, 2019, at 5:28 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > Go up to the Extras Menus and VO-space on the Google Drive thing. If you're > signed in, then sign out and Quit Google Drive from that menu item. Go back > into the Applications folder and open Backup & Sync or Google Drive, > whichever one you're using. I seem to recall that you're using Backup & > Sync, so try opening that. It will likely ask for your Google credentials > again. Enter them and let it do its thing. It should sync all up again. > > Later... > E > Tim Kilburn > Apple Teacher > (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Feb 13, 2019, at 16:10, Lorie McCloud <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > it appears that I am signed into my drive. I signed into it not long ago and > that time I was able to set things the way I wanted them and get sharable > links and everything. now, when I go back to that place, it shows what's in > the drive on my computer but also some things I deleted a long time ago. when > I pull up the context menu for a certain file, I see the option of: "Get > sharable link" but when I hit enter on it or vo-space (I've tried both) it > doesn't show me a link. > >> On Feb 13, 2019, at 4:19 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> First, it sounds like you're no longer signed in to your Google Drive on the >> Mac. That would make it so that things that were deleted were not synced >> with the Google Cloud. This would also probably make it so that you >> couldn't share files from the Finder. If you are sharing to another Google >> user, then there's no need to send things as a "sharable link". You can >> simply share the file and check the box that sends them a message that >> something was shared with them. In that web dialog that appears when you >> share something, there is also the sharable link if you choose to send that >> link instead. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Apple Teacher >> (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Feb 12, 2019, at 16:12, Lorie McCloud <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> sometimes I can get a sharable link for a file on the drive in my Mac and >> sometimes I can't. the other day I couldn't so I went to it on the web. the >> option for "get sharable link" was there but it didn't show a link. it only >> gave me my settings for sharing links.does anybody know what the problem is >> here? also, some things that I've deleted from the drive on my computer >> still show up on the website. how do I delete them entirely? >> >> thanks. >> Lorie >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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