Hi Patrick, thank you for taking the time to respond! No, I haven't tried placing anything in the folder myself, but I will do so at some point today. I finally got dropbox installed and setup this morning, so it hasn't been all that long. I had created a new shared folder via the website, and my friend uploaded about sixteen folders containing around 20 - 25 files each into the shared folder I had created. The shared folder I created on the website isn't even showing up under the dropbox folder on my machine.
-- Jenny Wood Phone: (972) 989-3894 Email: [email protected] Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Patrick Neazer wrote: > Hello Jenny and all: > > I do not know how long it has been since you got dropbox installed and > running. I had posted some photographs to my dropbox account and then > installed it on another computer. It took a while ... a while defined as > about 20 minutes because I was using a slower connection than the one at the > office and there were a number of videos. > > As for the other files that were placed in your account by someone else, > they should appear although how they were placed in terms of structure may be > effecting your being able to see them. > > Have you attempted to place anything in the folders yourself? > > Take good care and I wish you enough. > On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Jenny Wood wrote: > >> 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: [email protected] >> 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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