Re: Dropbox question
Bill Spikowski wrote: A technical question for Dropbox users: Usually I interact with Dropbox through the local folder on my computer; Dropbox uploads and downloads changed files without my interaction. However, when I email a colleague a link to a file or folder I've posted on Dropbox, I like to test the link before sending it. (Dropbox is confusing enough for regular users; new users are often completely baffled, even when the link is correct!) One way I've verified the upload is by right-clicking on the Dropbox desktop icon, then selecting View on dropbox.com, then looking at my new folder or files and verifying the time and file sizes. However, that has suddenly stopped working for me in Seamonkey, although it still works in Firefox and Chrome. Dropbox has made a recent change that's trouble for me; the other way I verified these links was by pasting them in my outgoing email in Seamonkey, then clicking on the link before sending the email and making sure I'm being sent to the right file. Dropbox now defeats that approach; their explanation is that when a file is already on your local computer, you get redirected there instead of to the actual link on dropbox.com. Either of my old methods worked fine, but I prefer to stay within Seamonkey rather than switching browsers, especially when I'm on other computers and don't recall my passwords. Any suggestions? Dropbox doesn't seem to have any real tech support, and I haven't been able to find anyone else reporting this problem through Google. If Dropbox have made the connection between the URL you used and your local machine, does that not mean the link was correct in the first place? I use a personal Dropbox account to store files for a small hobby forum that I help run and none of my users have ever reported a difficulty accessing files. Dropbox is hopelessly slow for photographs and brings the forum to a crawl but ideal for text files ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Dropbox question
Ray_Net wrote: Bill Spikowski wrote on 06/12/2014 23:13: A technical question for Dropbox users: Usually I interact with Dropbox through the local folder on my computer; Dropbox uploads and downloads changed files without my interaction. However, when I email a colleague a link to a file or folder I've posted on Dropbox, I like to test the link before sending it. (Dropbox is confusing enough for regular users; new users are often completely baffled, even when the link is correct!) One way I've verified the upload is by right-clicking on the Dropbox desktop icon, then selecting View on dropbox.com, then looking at my new folder or files and verifying the time and file sizes. However, that has suddenly stopped working for me in Seamonkey, although it still works in Firefox and Chrome. Dropbox has made a recent change that's trouble for me; the other way I verified these links was by pasting them in my outgoing email in Seamonkey, then clicking on the link before sending the email and making sure I'm being sent to the right file. Dropbox now defeats that approach; their explanation is that when a file is already on your local computer, you get redirected there instead of to the actual link on dropbox.com. Either of my old methods worked fine, but I prefer to stay within Seamonkey rather than switching browsers, especially when I'm on other computers and don't recall my passwords. Any suggestions? Dropbox doesn't seem to have any real tech support, and I haven't been able to find anyone else reporting this problem through Google. You say that they said: when a file is already on your local computer, you get redirected there instead of to the actual link on dropbox.com. So it's not a problem with the SM browser. Any browser will follow the dropbox mechanism. Right -- this one isn't a SM problem; but as it eliminates my alternate approach, so the SM problem below becomes more critical to me! You have just the SM problem: right-clicking on the Dropbox desktop icon, then selecting View on dropbox.com, then looking at my new folder or files and verifying the time and file sizes. However, that has suddenly stopped working for me in Seamonkey, although it still works in Firefox and Chrome. Exactly. If no other Dropbox users report this problem, I'll try to track down some errant SM extension that might be causing this behavior . . . . ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Dropbox question
Bob Minchin wrote: Bill Spikowski wrote: A technical question for Dropbox users: Usually I interact with Dropbox through the local folder on my computer; Dropbox uploads and downloads changed files without my interaction. However, when I email a colleague a link to a file or folder I've posted on Dropbox, I like to test the link before sending it. (Dropbox is confusing enough for regular users; new users are often completely baffled, even when the link is correct!) One way I've verified the upload is by right-clicking on the Dropbox desktop icon, then selecting View on dropbox.com, then looking at my new folder or files and verifying the time and file sizes. However, that has suddenly stopped working for me in Seamonkey, although it still works in Firefox and Chrome. Dropbox has made a recent change that's trouble for me; the other way I verified these links was by pasting them in my outgoing email in Seamonkey, then clicking on the link before sending the email and making sure I'm being sent to the right file. Dropbox now defeats that approach; their explanation is that when a file is already on your local computer, you get redirected there instead of to the actual link on dropbox.com. Either of my old methods worked fine, but I prefer to stay within Seamonkey rather than switching browsers, especially when I'm on other computers and don't recall my passwords. Any suggestions? Dropbox doesn't seem to have any real tech support, and I haven't been able to find anyone else reporting this problem through Google. If Dropbox have made the connection between the URL you used and your local machine, does that not mean the link was correct in the first place? I use a personal Dropbox account to store files for a small hobby forum that I help run and none of my users have ever reported a difficulty accessing files. This is a recent problem -- just in the past week. As to your question -- I haven't a clue, since Dropbox keeps its inner workings hidden from users. I found the product almost unusable until I stumbled upon the way I use it -- keeping a local folder on the desktop of each of my computers that I can interact with using normal file management tools and even without an internet connection; and only accessing Dropbox.com when I need to verify that a file I want to share has uploaded properly and the link I'm about to send a colleague connects to that file. Perhaps I'm not even using their product correctly; I've tried to get tech help from them a few times without success. Whenever I get frustrated with Dropbox, I try another file sharing services, only to find even bigger problems (e.g., my recipients must create an account; or they get bombed with advertising; or the download page has additional links designed to trick my colleagues; or the interface has just as many peculiarities as Dropbox or an even-more-baffling interface). Then I slink back to Dropbox -- until the cycle resumes! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Dropbox question
GerardJan wrote on 07/12/2014 09:24: | GO AWAY with your NULL reply ! I speak with Bill Spikowski ONLY ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Dropbox question
Ray_Net wrote: GerardJan wrote on 07/12/2014 09:24: | GO AWAY with your NULL reply ! I speak with Bill Spikowski ONLY Sorry, I had no keyboard sincerely -- Vink home:http://ciudadpatricia.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0 SeaMonkey/2.31b2 /* * Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to * terminate things with extreme prejudice. */ die_if_kernel(Oops, regs, error_code); -- From linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Dropbox question
Bill Spikowski wrote on 06/12/2014 23:13: A technical question for Dropbox users: Usually I interact with Dropbox through the local folder on my computer; Dropbox uploads and downloads changed files without my interaction. However, when I email a colleague a link to a file or folder I've posted on Dropbox, I like to test the link before sending it. (Dropbox is confusing enough for regular users; new users are often completely baffled, even when the link is correct!) One way I've verified the upload is by right-clicking on the Dropbox desktop icon, then selecting View on dropbox.com, then looking at my new folder or files and verifying the time and file sizes. However, that has suddenly stopped working for me in Seamonkey, although it still works in Firefox and Chrome. Dropbox has made a recent change that's trouble for me; the other way I verified these links was by pasting them in my outgoing email in Seamonkey, then clicking on the link before sending the email and making sure I'm being sent to the right file. Dropbox now defeats that approach; their explanation is that when a file is already on your local computer, you get redirected there instead of to the actual link on dropbox.com. Either of my old methods worked fine, but I prefer to stay within Seamonkey rather than switching browsers, especially when I'm on other computers and don't recall my passwords. Any suggestions? Dropbox doesn't seem to have any real tech support, and I haven't been able to find anyone else reporting this problem through Google. You say that they said: when a file is already on your local computer, you get redirected there instead of to the actual link on dropbox.com. So it's not a problem with the SM browser. Any browser will follow the dropbox mechanism. You have just the SM problem: right-clicking on the Dropbox desktop icon, then selecting View on dropbox.com, then looking at my new folder or files and verifying the time and file sizes. However, that has suddenly stopped working for me in Seamonkey, although it still works in Firefox and Chrome. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
