The only time I've had it tell me it had no windows when I rebooted was when I didn't have an Internet connection but I'm sure there could be other reasons.
-- 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 1:28 PM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > The only reason I was wanting to shut it down was because it was constantly > telling me that it had no windows and wouldn't display the Dropbox menu, so > was trying to reinstall to see if that would help. > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:01 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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