She doesn't have an entry in the extras menu because she is running Lion, not Mountain Lion, and that is part of what is causing confusion. And I'm sure what she means by "accessing" is all those things you list as being available through the extras menus. Also, at least on my machine, vo-return (this doesn't technically have an enter) doesn't get into the dropbox menu but vo-space does.
-- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:01 AM, "Phil Halton" <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. 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