What do you mean by "accessing it"? and, why would you "close it"?
Dropbox is not an app in the normal sense of that word. It is just a special
folder on your hard drive, you don't need to "shut it down" when not in use,
you just set it and forget it. To use dropbox you place files in the dropbox
folder and the dropbox software saves a copy to the cloud and syncs that
copy across all your dropbox enabled devices.
As far as "accessing" dropbox goes, The dropbox entry in the extras menu is
activated by pressing VO enter. Then you have several choices:
1) you can open the dropbox folder where you can browse around your dropbox
and delete and rename stuff if you like.
2) you can launch the dropbox website in safari and look at your stuff as it
is stored in the cloud - it'll be an exact duplicate of the dropbox folder
on your Mac.
3) you can look through a submenu of recently changed files, usually a half
dozen of the last files addedd or deleted from your dropbox folder.
4) You can see how much of your dropbox storage is currently being used.
5) You can Pause/resume any syncing that's currently going on.
6) You can set your dropbox preferences.
7) and finally, you can read through the dropbox help files. I would highly
recommend doing so. It will probably answer alot of your questions and clear
up your general confusion about dropbox and its function and operation.
I sincerely hope this helps in some way - God knows life is confusing and
frustrating enough without adding to the mess with computer anxiety.
.
-- Original Message -----
From: "Jessica Moss" <junglebookfa...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Dropbox acting up again.
As for accessing it through the menu bar, I tried that, and it didn't even
show up, so have no idea what to make of that either.
On Jan 10, 2013, at 10:08 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote:
Hello.
Dropbox is always going to say, has no windows. The only way to access the
dropbox menu is, naturally, through the menu bar.
HTH.
Matt
Sent from my mac
Twitter: matt692
On 2013-01-10, at 8:04 PM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, I managed to get dropbox up and running, only for it to start right
back up again with the same behavior. It worked perfectly when I first
installed and ran it, but considering the fact that I wasn't going to be
running it or my computer forever, I was going to have to close it
eventually.
Then when I relaunched it last night, and it went right back to telling
me "dropbox has no windows," and I couldn't figure out what to do with
it, and reinstalling it after trashing it does nothing.
Then on top of that, it refuses to redownload so maybe I can just simply
make a fresh start, and this is driving me nuts. Anyone got any advice?
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