Hi, that may be all possible, but why so f… difficult? Dropbox and windows have a far more better relation. I think its a bad deal how dropbox and apple work now, if we talk about the mac. Egbert Op 27 feb. 2012, om 20:10 heeft Esther het volgende geschreven:
> 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. -- 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.
