The iOS platform does not expose a folder structure. Instead, every app stores documents, and you must use "share" or "open in" buttons, if the app provides them, to move files around. So, open the Dropbox app and you will see all your folders and files. To open, say, a Word file in Pages, you'd find that file in the Dropbox app and double tap it. Once it loads, you will see an export button in the lower right of the screen. Double tap that and you are given a list of all the apps on your phone that say they can support Word files; pick Pages from that list and the file is copied to the Pages app. The word "copied" is important there: modifying that file in Pages will not affect Dropbox's version at all - you'd have to use Pages to put the copy back into Dropbox if you wanted to then use that file somewhere else. The flip side is putting files into Dropbox. Many apps will not let you do this (for instance, you cannot save a Safari download to Dropbox). The ones that do, though, will have you go through the same process: hit the "open in" button, choose Dropbox, and there you go. Again, though, not all apps support this feature, and there is no way to get at the underlying file structure to move things around - iOS is simply not built that way. On Jul 1, 2013, at 9:30 PM, jean parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> All: > Thank you so much for the dropbox help. I installed it with problem. > Now, I have also put it on my i phone. Where do I find the folder where the > documents are? Also, how to I initiate an upload to dropbox from my I phone? > I am making more progress each day thanks to all of you. > Jean > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
