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."
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