[Techno-Chat]: Re: DropBox

2018-08-22 Thread Gordon Smith
When I first realised the potential of the Pro account, that was why I mentioned it to you. I, too, have DropBox Pro and wonder how I managed without it! My entire music collection, in FLAC format, along with all of the movies I’ve bought over the years in iTunes, are all safely up there now

Dropbox vs. Western Digital My Cloud | Maximum PC

2014-07-29 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi all I thought some may find this little contest of interest. We are fortunate enough to own two of these devices and shortly I will begin the long-overdue process of rolling the clouds out so that there be reign on the Internet, (like the little pun)? I guess you’d need to be a Braille

Accessing Old Versions Of Files On Dropbox

2014-04-14 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Is there a way to access an older version on DropBox? I have just committed the very deadly sin of overwriting a file which Gordon has been working on with an older less developed version and I’m anxious to redeem myself a little before I confess my sin to him. Thank you

Re: Dropbox driving me absolute bonkers!

2014-04-12 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
: Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com To: Technology Enthusiasm Restricted To techno-chat@techno-chat.net Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2014 4:21 PM Subject: Re: Dropbox driving me absolute bonkers! I can't recall what screen reader you are using but there is a discussipoon on the nvda dev list regarding

Dropbox driving me absolute bonkers!

2014-04-11 Thread Christopher gilland
OK, I, am about ready? to, freaking scream! Take the word freaking and change it as you will! I really don't understand this, but for some bizarre reason, for about the past 3 or 4 months, I've not been able to connect to my Dropbox account on my Windows XP machine. I understand xp isn't

Re: Dropbox driving me absolute bonkers!

2014-04-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I would contact the guys at http://forum.dropbox.com as the dropbox devs read and respond to stuff there a lot faster then you might get a responce here.. In the mean time did you check that all updates were applied, that it was going through yoru firewall? I assume you did but it never hurts

Re: Dropbox was Re: Braille Displays and iOS Devices

2013-07-15 Thread Desi Noller
Hi Chris, Thanks so much! I was afraid you were going to say that! LOL! I haven't found launching Dropbox on my iMac to be very easy for me. I'm running Mountain Lion and I have the latest version of Dropbox. I know that I must go to the Extras menu and launch from there, but must use

Re: DropBox Folder Organisation

2012-09-10 Thread Gordon Smith
called tffppodcasts but I can rename that to just podcasts if I wanted to. or cd /users/jholiday/music ln -s /Volumes/music/5broadcasting/broadcasting_tutorial.mp3 and one more cd ~/dropbox ln -s ~/documents/backups/importent stuff Note something might have to be done using spaces but since I

Re: DropBox Folder Organisation

2012-09-10 Thread Martin G. McCormick
around in the 70s. but yeah they work well and I have a few in my dropbox folders === The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages

Re: DropBox Folder Organisation

2012-09-09 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
, Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: • Just cd to the directory where you want the simlink to be then do ln -s and the path of the folder. Do this int he cmd prompt. Just don't cut the simlink any ware in the dropbox folder or you will loose everything. I did that once. and had to restore

Re: DropBox Folder Organisation

2012-09-09 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Martin Thanks, I understand now. This is one of those circumstances where spelling is important, otherwise it can totally mislead, and it did! OK, I need to read your post thoroughly, but I also now need to try and dig up my notes on how to create these links under OS X. Thanks for the

Re: DropBox Folder Organisation

2012-09-09 Thread Sarah Alawami
On 8 Sep 2012, at 22:26, Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: • Just cd to the directory where you want the simlink to be then do ln -s and the path of the folder. Do this int he cmd prompt. Just don't cut the simlink any ware in the dropbox folder or you will loose everything. I did

Re: DropBox Folder Organisation

2012-09-09 Thread Sarah Alawami
lol. hey I learned something new as well. I did not know they were around since the 70s. Ok. I did not know operating system were around in the 70s. but yeah they work well and I have a few in my dropbox folders so even though my folder might be 20mb in size I have over 100 gigs of stuff up

Re: DropBox Folder Organisation

2012-09-09 Thread Sarah Alawami
podcasts He will get a shortcut called tffppodcasts but I can rename that to just podcasts if I wanted to. or cd /users/jholiday/music ln -s /Volumes/music/5broadcasting/broadcasting_tutorial.mp3 and one more cd ~/dropbox ln -s ~/documents/backups/importent stuff Note something might have

DropBox Folder Organisation

2012-09-07 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi all You know, I think I must be doing this wrongly because I really cannot see how it's sustainable. Let me explain. I have a folder on our local drive called DropBox. Inside of that folder, there are a lot of other folders which I have copies of elsewhere on the hard drive. Our start

Dropbox Now Lets Shared Folder Users Pass On Invitations

2012-07-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
. http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/07/16/dropbox-now-lets-you-pass-on-the-power-to-invite-more-users-to-shared-folders/?awesm=tnw.to_j1vOutm_campaign=social mediautm_medium=Spreadusutm_source=Twitter This is btw some good news for me as I constantly am away from my keyboard and we need to invite

dropbox plans super size

2012-07-10 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok. that's not the right word in the subject line but here ya go. If you are not eh 100 gig plan like I am you will double to 200 gigs. Here's the link to the article. http://blog.dropbox.com/index.php/new-dropbox-pro-plans/ Take care all. === The Techno

DropBox;

2012-06-04 Thread Gordon Smith
If anybody is interested in the new experimental 1.5 build of DropBox client for Mac OS X, it is here: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=61389 I haven't yet found a Windows build, but then again I haven't looked too hard. Gordon === The Techno-Chat E

Re: PGP was Is This True About Dropbox?

2011-08-29 Thread Gordon Smith
file on Dropbox or painted on the outside of the building, here, but what worries me about all this cloud stuff is human errors and what I call suit wars. Human errors don't need much explanation, but what I mean by suit wars is deliberate reduction or stoppage of service due to business

Is This True About Dropbox?

2011-08-27 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hi all I just read on a document in a local magazine here which talks about things like consumer services, (including the Internet), that DropBox says in the small print of their service agreement that everything that you put on their servers they automatically assume ownership of the rights