Hi John, Instead of memorizing your dropbox public folder address, why don't you take advantage of Lion's text expansion capability and define a shortcut for the prefix string giving your dropbox public folder address? For example, you could set a character string named "dbpf" to expand to "http://dl.dropbox/u/12345678/"; whenever you typed it in Mail or TextEdit.
Since Michael just pointed Ezzie to a YouTube video with instructions on how to do this yesterday, in order to set a string that gets expanded for signatures, I can just paste in his text giving the link: <begin quote> Ok here is the link. Let me know if you need me to clarify anything. It should be clear enough if my memory hasn't failed me. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKxWbBuDSSI <end quote> Very briefly, you go to the System Preferences > Language & Text menu and select the "Text" tab. Then you press the "Add" button to enter a new entry to the "Substitutions" table, and type in the string you want expanded (e.g., "dbpf" in the above example), and the replacement string (e.g."http://dl.dropbox/u/12345678/";). Then, in the applications that support such expansion substitution, like Mail and TextEdit, you navigate to the "Edit" menu on the menu bar, and arrow down to the "Substitutions" menu, then right arrow to the submenu and navigate to "Substitutions" to check this option. That should save you some typing and memorization. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:19 AM, John Sanfilippo wrote: > You can find the dropbox contextual menu but I find it hard to describe doing > that. > I found it to be such a kludge that I simply resorted to memorizing my > drobpox public folder address: > > http://dl.dropbox/u/12345678/fileName.ext > > O yeah and make sure to name files without spaces to cut down having to type > %20 for each space. > > Smile, of course I occasionally make a typo so folks write back and complain > that they can't access the file. > > Also, be sure that you allow time for the transfer to take place after you've > copied files into the dropbox folder. > > hth, > > John S > > > . > On Feb 27, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Egbert wrote: > > Hi and good morning! > i try to add some material in my dropbox, but whatever i try, it does not > work There is also the fact that not every folder in my dropbox is detected > by my macbook. > In my IPhone are more folderds then on the dropbox on my Mac. > > In windows i had the possibilaty to send people a link when i wanted to share > some things, macwhise, i don't see that option. > Any tips or tricks? > Egbert . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
