Yes, checking the box will turn it off for that one drive, or memory
card. Try inserting a new one, and the Camera Upload thing comes on
again. And how does it remember that it is turned off? By throwing a
.Dropbox file on each drive or USB stick or Memory card in your
collection. Deleting that file from your drive, then insert it into your
computer anew, and the Camera Upload is on again. Even if Dropbox is not
running at the moment, some resistant thing makes Dropbox start, when a
pen or card is inserted. Only safe way to go, is to turn off Internet
access, insert the card or pen drive, and then turn back on Internet
again. Easy enough, on a laptop with a Wireless On/Off button, but a bit
more tricky when working on a computer with a cable on the backside.
That is, unless you have an external On/Off box for your connection.
Anyway, the Camera Upload issue, is not in any way related to any screen
reader. Except from the fact, that sometimes the window gets stuck
behind anything else, and you cannot get to it, or you might get there
but cannot route the mouse to the checkbox, and long as the Window is
behind everything else, certain dialog boxes from other pieces of
software on your system, won't display or act correctly. In such cases,
the Task Manager, will be a good tool to push Dropbox off the scene.
David
On 10/5/2019 2:04 AM, john schwery via Talk wrote:
> David, I think I turned off that camera upload by tabbing and hitting
> a checkbox.
>
> At 04:54 PM 10/4/2019, David via Talk, wrote:
>> Still under Win7, so don't know if this will contribute anything at all.
>> But thought to throw in a couple of ideas.
>>
>>
>> First of all, If you ope a normal session in Windows Explorer, i.e by
>> hitting Windows-E.
>>
>> Now move to your standard drive, like C:.
>>
>> in the root of that drive, you likely will have a foldr, named Users,
>> and under that one, every of your user profiles have their own
>> subfolder. Go to the subfolder of your Username, and I think it is under
>> AppData that you will find the Dropbox subfolder. This is the
>> down-to-basic way of reaching the Dropbox folder, and the oneapproach I
>> used a couple of days ago. It worked back then, but that might have been
>> prior to any updates of the Dropbox software.
>>
>>
>> Still, I don't understand, how Dropbox would prevent you from getting
>> normal results, when going this rather manual way. You should be able to
>> reach your local copy of the dropbox folder. That is, long as your
>> system is set up to hold a local copy, of course.
>>
>>
>> Second idea, please open the Windows Task Manager, by hitting
>> Ctrl-Shift-Escape. Scroll down to Dropbox, and hit Alt-E, to end the
>> process, and hit Enter to confirm. Press Escape to get out of the Task
>> Manager. If everything went well, your Dropbox is now temporarily turned
>> off, and your system might leave you the chance of getting to the local
>> Dropbox folder on your hard Drive.
>>
>> Thirdly, if any of it all does not work, here is one more thing to try.
>> If possible, please disconnect from any Internet - Wired or Wireless. To
>> give it as safe as possible a try, restart your computer. Make sure no
>> Dropbox is running,, that is, check the SysTray, and the Task Manager.
>> Now try getting to your local folder, and see if it is possible. If so,
>> do your copying and reorganizing as you desire. When done, reconnect to
>> the internet, and start Dropbox. It supposedly should now realize there
>> has been some changes in the local folder, and synchronize with the
>> online version of the service.
>>
>> Again, I did work with Dropbox somethng like two days ago, and had no
>> problems in approaching my local folder - doing what I wanted like in
>> any other folder on my computer - and then let the Dropbox software
>> synchronize with the online service.
>>
>> In general, I am considering leaving Dropbox altogether. Among other
>> things, I hate that it insist on running a service it names "camera
>> upload", every time I insert a new memory stick or card into my
>> computer. To have it stop doing so, you will have to accept it splashing
>> a file of its own, onto every single drive. Have found no way to turn
>> off all that self-acting stuff. And if now they have changed their
>> services, that they no longer are accessible for screen reader users, I
>> am ready to give it all up. Smiles.
>>
>> There used to be a Dropbox app for Window-Eyes. Don't know if it still
>> has any impact, or if it only would get in your way. But it might be one
>> way to go. Not even sure, exactly what that app did. A couple of days
>> ago, I uploaded a zip archive of the WE apps I had drawn from App
>> Central, and I know the Dropbox app was in that archive as well. So you
>> could get it from there, if you want to give it a try. Doubtfully,
>> though, it will solve much of your trouble; but I thought to mention it.
>> In case you have it already installed, may it be of any
