hello Sarah I think Tracy's concern is that absolutely everything is replicated so, for instance, if we have a folder on our hard drive that we share on Drop Box, we have it twice on each machine. Your point about unsharing folders is a very valid one; and I think we're going to have to find a different way of storing our large folders other than on the home drive because currently it's eating up about 50GB having the two copies.
Lynne On 22 Nov 2011, at 16:14, Sarah Alawami wrote: think of dropbox like an odd ftp server. they are not technically available on the website, well they are if you don't have the client installed but once they are uploaded to the server they are download to our computer. and let's say if you are working on an outboard project they can get it when there computer downloads your file. If you don't want that person to be on the project anymore you can simply unshare that folder with that person and set it up so it removes everything in there shared folder and I mean everything. no warning. This happened to me when I got kicked off of shockwave radio. Promos, station ids everything got removed. Also when a person removes a file from there folder it is reflected instantly on your side. and it does not go to the trash either. It is simply gone. Take care and hope that help a bit. On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Tracy Thompson wrote: > Hello group > > I hope you don't mind but I have a question about this drop box thing. I am > apparently being given a Mac for my Christmas present by Gordon and Lynne > which is amazing enough. But Lynne is talking about Drop Box because she says > it would let us synchronize our machines with music and things. > > Anyway the thing I am confused about is this. If the files are stored on the > Drop Box which as I understand it is a remote web site, how is it that there > is a Drop Box folder on the hard drive of every machine that is synchronised? > What I'm asking is what's the point if all your machines are on the same net? > For example if I can log into Gordon and Lynne's machines, why use Drop Box > because all of the files are accessible anyway? I'm sorry for the probably > dumb question but I'm confused. > > Have a good Tuesday no matter how much is left of it where you are. > > Tracy > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>