Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-28 Thread Patrick Neazer
Hello Jenny:

Glad to hear that your shared folder is available to you ;). I know that is a 
relieve. 

Yes, selecting the advanced setup provides you with a few more options ... one 
of them being seeing the folders you create rather than simply the folders that 
come with the package out of the box :).

If you want to send a link to share with someone you could:

1. focus upon the file or folder you wish to share.

2. Perform a VO + Shift + M keystroke to bring up the menu.

3. Arrow down until you here the dropbox option.

4. Press the right arrow key and then arrow down until you here copy public 
link.

5. Press enter. 

Now you can paste the link into an email and send it to whomever you like and 
they will be able to see it.

Let us know if that proves helpful n any way.

Take good care and I wish you enough.



On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:

 Hi Patrick, Paul  all.  Okay, so I don't know exactly what happened, but 
 after having removed and reinstalled the dropbox desktop app a number of 
 times, my newly created shared folder and all of it's contents are suddenly 
 showing up!  I am completely beside myself here, thrilled, but baffled.  The 
 only difference in the process this time was selecting the Advanced setup 
 verses the Typical setup, and having killed off the previous link to my 
 account and recreating it.  It didn't prompt me for any additional 
 information after having chosen Advanced setup though.  Interesting.  
 So, I was able to view, or rather, listen, to your video with no problem.  
 That's really my only other big hangup about using the desktop app, although 
 the website is just as unaccessible, I am still not sure how I will go about 
 sending a public link when the time comes.  But I am so excited to finally 
 see my files! ;-)  
 
 Thank you guys, for your continued help!
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:(972) 989-3894
 Email:kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:   kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 When installing dropbox you have the option of using the regular or advanced 
 setup options. The regular setup options provide you with the public and 
 photo folders at the completion of the installation. The advanced options 
 provide you with a list of folders dropbox may point to which you establish. 
 I have not played much with the advanced option though it is my guess that 
 your shared folder was not designated to be seen upon initial setup and you 
 used the regular setup when you did it. Please correct me if I am wrong.
 
 As for a way to send links ... here is an experiment. 
 
 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41895723/100_3978.MOV
 
 This is a video I took while at the US Open. It is about 90 seconds long and 
 it ought to play in quicktime. There is no objectionable material contained 
 within the video so children do not need to be urged to leave the room. 
 
 Let me know how it goes.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 I had a feeling that might be the case. :-)  Hmmm, unfortunately, either I 
 am missing something, or there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to move 
 files from one folder to another via the website.
 
 The reason I created the shared folder on the website itself, rather than 
 on my own machine, is because from what I understand, there isn't a very 
 voiceover-friendly way of accessing certain options, such as inviting 
 someone to have access to a given folder or sending a link to someone for a 
 specific file.  Is this still the case?   
 
   
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:  (972) 989-3894
 Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 Ah, that is what I was wanting to know. That shared folder may not appear 
 out of the box given how your friend set it up. However, if you or your 
 friend could move those items into either the public folder or the photos 
 folder (operating from the premise that the items are photographs), you 
 ought to be able to see them then.
 
 If you want to have a little bit of fun and you own an iphone ... grab the 
 app. It is free and may provide you with another perspective on the 
 functionality of dropbox.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Patrick, thank you for taking the time to respond!  No, I haven't 
 tried placing anything in the folder myself, but I will do so at some 
 point today.  I finally got dropbox installed and setup this morning, so 
 it hasn't been all that long.  I had created a new shared folder via the 
 website, and my friend uploaded about sixteen folders containing around 
 20 - 25 files each into the shared folder I had created.  The shared 
 folder I created on the website isn't even showing up under the dropbox 
 folder on my machine. 
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-28 Thread Jenny Wood
Hi Patrick,

The interesting thing is, when performing a vo+shift+M, Dropbox isn't one of my 
options.  Not sure if there is something else I am missing... :-)   

--

Jenny Wood
Phone:  (972) 989-3894
Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni




On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:57 AM, Patrick Neazer wrote:

 Hello Jenny:
 
 Glad to hear that your shared folder is available to you ;). I know that is a 
 relieve. 
 
 Yes, selecting the advanced setup provides you with a few more options ... 
 one of them being seeing the folders you create rather than simply the 
 folders that come with the package out of the box :).
 
 If you want to send a link to share with someone you could:
 
 1. focus upon the file or folder you wish to share.
 
 2. Perform a VO + Shift + M keystroke to bring up the menu.
 
 3. Arrow down until you here the dropbox option.
 
 4. Press the right arrow key and then arrow down until you here copy public 
 link.
 
 5. Press enter. 
 
 Now you can paste the link into an email and send it to whomever you like and 
 they will be able to see it.
 
 Let us know if that proves helpful n any way.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Patrick, Paul  all.  Okay, so I don't know exactly what happened, but 
 after having removed and reinstalled the dropbox desktop app a number of 
 times, my newly created shared folder and all of it's contents are suddenly 
 showing up!  I am completely beside myself here, thrilled, but baffled.  The 
 only difference in the process this time was selecting the Advanced setup 
 verses the Typical setup, and having killed off the previous link to my 
 account and recreating it.  It didn't prompt me for any additional 
 information after having chosen Advanced setup though.  Interesting.  
 So, I was able to view, or rather, listen, to your video with no problem.  
 That's really my only other big hangup about using the desktop app, although 
 the website is just as unaccessible, I am still not sure how I will go about 
 sending a public link when the time comes.  But I am so excited to finally 
 see my files! ;-)  
 
 Thank you guys, for your continued help!
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:   (972) 989-3894
 Email:   kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:  kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 When installing dropbox you have the option of using the regular or 
 advanced setup options. The regular setup options provide you with the 
 public and photo folders at the completion of the installation. The 
 advanced options provide you with a list of folders dropbox may point to 
 which you establish. I have not played much with the advanced option though 
 it is my guess that your shared folder was not designated to be seen upon 
 initial setup and you used the regular setup when you did it. Please 
 correct me if I am wrong.
 
 As for a way to send links ... here is an experiment. 
 
 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41895723/100_3978.MOV
 
 This is a video I took while at the US Open. It is about 90 seconds long 
 and it ought to play in quicktime. There is no objectionable material 
 contained within the video so children do not need to be urged to leave the 
 room. 
 
 Let me know how it goes.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 I had a feeling that might be the case. :-)  Hmmm, unfortunately, either I 
 am missing something, or there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to 
 move files from one folder to another via the website.
 
 The reason I created the shared folder on the website itself, rather than 
 on my own machine, is because from what I understand, there isn't a very 
 voiceover-friendly way of accessing certain options, such as inviting 
 someone to have access to a given folder or sending a link to someone for 
 a specific file.  Is this still the case?   
 
   
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone: (972) 989-3894
 Email: kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 Ah, that is what I was wanting to know. That shared folder may not appear 
 out of the box given how your friend set it up. However, if you or your 
 friend could move those items into either the public folder or the photos 
 folder (operating from the premise that the items are photographs), you 
 ought to be able to see them then.
 
 If you want to have a little bit of fun and you own an iphone ... grab 
 the app. It is free and may provide you with another perspective on the 
 functionality of dropbox.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Patrick, thank you for taking the time to respond!  No, I haven't 
 tried placing anything in the folder myself, but I will do so at some 
 point today.  I finally got dropbox installed and setup this morning, so 
 it hasn't 

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-28 Thread Patrick Neazer
Hello Jenny:

Hmm, are you performing the VO + shift + m on a file or folder which is 
contained within the original public or photo folder? Given the journey you 
have been on with the installation of this software (smile) operating from the 
shared folder might be uncertain if that is what is happening. 

If you have not done so already, try moving something not already in dropbox to 
the original public folder and see how that works.

Also, I do not remember if you have an Iphone or not.

Take good care and I wish you enough.
On Sep 28, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:

 Hi Patrick,
 
 The interesting thing is, when performing a vo+shift+M, Dropbox isn't one of 
 my options.  Not sure if there is something else I am missing... :-)   
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:(972) 989-3894
 Email:kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:   kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:57 AM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny:
 
 Glad to hear that your shared folder is available to you ;). I know that is 
 a relieve. 
 
 Yes, selecting the advanced setup provides you with a few more options ... 
 one of them being seeing the folders you create rather than simply the 
 folders that come with the package out of the box :).
 
 If you want to send a link to share with someone you could:
 
 1. focus upon the file or folder you wish to share.
 
 2. Perform a VO + Shift + M keystroke to bring up the menu.
 
 3. Arrow down until you here the dropbox option.
 
 4. Press the right arrow key and then arrow down until you here copy public 
 link.
 
 5. Press enter. 
 
 Now you can paste the link into an email and send it to whomever you like 
 and they will be able to see it.
 
 Let us know if that proves helpful n any way.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Patrick, Paul  all.  Okay, so I don't know exactly what happened, but 
 after having removed and reinstalled the dropbox desktop app a number of 
 times, my newly created shared folder and all of it's contents are suddenly 
 showing up!  I am completely beside myself here, thrilled, but baffled.  
 The only difference in the process this time was selecting the Advanced 
 setup verses the Typical setup, and having killed off the previous link to 
 my account and recreating it.  It didn't prompt me for any additional 
 information after having chosen Advanced setup though.  Interesting.  
 So, I was able to view, or rather, listen, to your video with no problem.  
 That's really my only other big hangup about using the desktop app, 
 although the website is just as unaccessible, I am still not sure how I 
 will go about sending a public link when the time comes.  But I am so 
 excited to finally see my files! ;-)  
 
 Thank you guys, for your continued help!
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:  (972) 989-3894
 Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 When installing dropbox you have the option of using the regular or 
 advanced setup options. The regular setup options provide you with the 
 public and photo folders at the completion of the installation. The 
 advanced options provide you with a list of folders dropbox may point to 
 which you establish. I have not played much with the advanced option 
 though it is my guess that your shared folder was not designated to be 
 seen upon initial setup and you used the regular setup when you did it. 
 Please correct me if I am wrong.
 
 As for a way to send links ... here is an experiment. 
 
 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41895723/100_3978.MOV
 
 This is a video I took while at the US Open. It is about 90 seconds long 
 and it ought to play in quicktime. There is no objectionable material 
 contained within the video so children do not need to be urged to leave 
 the room. 
 
 Let me know how it goes.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 I had a feeling that might be the case. :-)  Hmmm, unfortunately, either 
 I am missing something, or there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to 
 move files from one folder to another via the website.
 
 The reason I created the shared folder on the website itself, rather than 
 on my own machine, is because from what I understand, there isn't a very 
 voiceover-friendly way of accessing certain options, such as inviting 
 someone to have access to a given folder or sending a link to someone for 
 a specific file.  Is this still the case?   
 
   
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:(972) 989-3894
 Email:kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:   kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 Ah, that is what I was wanting to know. That shared folder may not 
 appear out of the box given how your friend set it up. However, if you 
 or your friend could move those items into either the public folder or 
 the 

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jenny Wood,
Dropbox is usable on the mac. Not entirely accessible, but it is now usable. If 
you downloaded the installer from dropbox.com recently, you will have noticed 
that at least the dropbox mac setup is now fully accessible. That was not the 
case a while ago, so that is a nice improvement.

Second: why bother with the web interface. If you have more than one device 
that you want to use dropbox on, then the idea is simple. The dropbox website 
is your main place of storage. You can fill it with files, by having your mac 
dropbox client upload stuff to that space on the web. 
On your mac, inside your home folder, you have a new folder named dropbox. You 
can reach this folder by hitting command shift h for your home folder in 
finder. You will see documents, music and all your stuff there, plus this new 
dropbox folder. Go into it, and drop anything you want uploaded to the sight 
inside this home dropbox folder on your mac. The upload will happen 
automatically, without any other user intervention. A while later, you will 
find these files on the web in your dropbox account. Of course, dropbox will 
have to be running on the mac for this to happen.

If you now install dropbox on a second device, say an iPod touch, an iPhone, or 
a windows computer, then all files in the dropbox space on the web will 
automatically be downloaded to the new device. All you need to do to make this 
happen, is install dropbox on the new device, and login with your account. 

To know if dropbox is running or not on your mac, you can check your users and 
groups item in system preferences. Go to the menu bar, vo m, go down to system 
preferences with vo down arrow, vo space on it, then move over to preference 
panes, and interact with that. Now go to users and groups. You can arrow 
around, or you can hit u s e in quick succession to have the vo cursor move to 
users and groups. Hit vo space to open this item. Then hit vo space on the 
login items tab. Move right, till you are on a list box with your programs that 
startup automatically each time you turn on your mac, and interact with the 
table. Look up and down and see if there is an item called dropbox. If you find 
it here, then you know that dropbox is always active from now on, and that the 
installation of dropbox succeeded. If you don't find it, you will have to redo 
the installation of dropbox, so that the dropbox item appears here. Once you 
have it in place, simply copy or move files into your home dropbox folder on 
the mac to have them uploaded to the web space. As soon as you synch your 
second device with the internet, all files you uploaded on the mac will appear 
there as well. If you delete something, doesn't matter from which device, it 
will also be deleted from all other drop boxed devices. You don't need the web 
interface at all, nor do you need to see the interface of your mac dropbox 
client. Just be sure that it is running, and if it's not, just start it from 
your applications folder, command shift a. If at some point you want to get rid 
of dropbox, simply remove the dropbox entry from your user and groups login 
items table, reboot your mac so that the dropbox process is no longer running, 
and then trash the dropbox app away from your applications folder
Hth,
Paul.
On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:

 Good day all.  I have just started playing with dropbox, so I am very new to 
 this particular service.  I understand that there are all kinds of 
 accessibility issues with dropbox on Lion, but I am curious, if there is a 
 way to download an entire folder from the website interface without sight?  
 The instructions are most definitely geared toward the sighted, and I haven't 
 been able to find a work around as of yet.  I can manage to download 
 individual files, but going about it this way will take an eternity I'm sure. 
  As expected, I haven't been able to make heads or tails of the desktop app.  
 I am running Lion, btw, with the latest updates.  Thank you for any help you 
 can offer!   
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:(972) 989-3894
 Email:kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:   kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-27 Thread Jenny Wood
Hi Paul.  Thank you very much for the response!  For some reason, I have never 
successfully setup dropbox on my mac, apparently.  So, I scrapped all of the 
previous installation and installers, revisited dropbox.com and started fresh.  
This time, I did manage to make get through the setup process without a hitch.  
Dropbox is running, and my dropbox folder is created and ready for use.  I 
think my only question at this point is, I still have a folder containing many 
files on the website.  I would love to have them sync to my mac, or somehow 
retrieve them.  They were placed there by another dropbox user who I had 
invited to access my new folder.  However, I am unable to find a way to 
actually download them to my computer.  As I say, dropbox is definitely 
running, but I don't see anything at all in the new dropbox folder.  Does it 
perhaps take some time for this to happen?

Thank you!

--

Jenny Wood
Phone:  (972) 989-3894
Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni




On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:

 Hi Jenny Wood,
 Dropbox is usable on the mac. Not entirely accessible, but it is now usable. 
 If you downloaded the installer from dropbox.com recently, you will have 
 noticed that at least the dropbox mac setup is now fully accessible. That was 
 not the case a while ago, so that is a nice improvement.
 
 Second: why bother with the web interface. If you have more than one device 
 that you want to use dropbox on, then the idea is simple. The dropbox website 
 is your main place of storage. You can fill it with files, by having your mac 
 dropbox client upload stuff to that space on the web. 
 On your mac, inside your home folder, you have a new folder named dropbox. 
 You can reach this folder by hitting command shift h for your home folder in 
 finder. You will see documents, music and all your stuff there, plus this new 
 dropbox folder. Go into it, and drop anything you want uploaded to the sight 
 inside this home dropbox folder on your mac. The upload will happen 
 automatically, without any other user intervention. A while later, you will 
 find these files on the web in your dropbox account. Of course, dropbox will 
 have to be running on the mac for this to happen.
 
 If you now install dropbox on a second device, say an iPod touch, an iPhone, 
 or a windows computer, then all files in the dropbox space on the web will 
 automatically be downloaded to the new device. All you need to do to make 
 this happen, is install dropbox on the new device, and login with your 
 account. 
 
 To know if dropbox is running or not on your mac, you can check your users 
 and groups item in system preferences. Go to the menu bar, vo m, go down to 
 system preferences with vo down arrow, vo space on it, then move over to 
 preference panes, and interact with that. Now go to users and groups. You can 
 arrow around, or you can hit u s e in quick succession to have the vo cursor 
 move to users and groups. Hit vo space to open this item. Then hit vo space 
 on the login items tab. Move right, till you are on a list box with your 
 programs that startup automatically each time you turn on your mac, and 
 interact with the table. Look up and down and see if there is an item called 
 dropbox. If you find it here, then you know that dropbox is always active 
 from now on, and that the installation of dropbox succeeded. If you don't 
 find it, you will have to redo the installation of dropbox, so that the 
 dropbox item appears here. Once you have it in place, simply copy or move 
 files into your home dropbox folder on the mac to have them uploaded to the 
 web space. As soon as you synch your second device with the internet, all 
 files you uploaded on the mac will appear there as well. If you delete 
 something, doesn't matter from which device, it will also be deleted from all 
 other drop boxed devices. You don't need the web interface at all, nor do you 
 need to see the interface of your mac dropbox client. Just be sure that it is 
 running, and if it's not, just start it from your applications folder, 
 command shift a. If at some point you want to get rid of dropbox, simply 
 remove the dropbox entry from your user and groups login items table, reboot 
 your mac so that the dropbox process is no longer running, and then trash the 
 dropbox app away from your applications folder
 Hth,
 Paul.
 On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Good day all.  I have just started playing with dropbox, so I am very new to 
 this particular service.  I understand that there are all kinds of 
 accessibility issues with dropbox on Lion, but I am curious, if there is a 
 way to download an entire folder from the website interface without sight?  
 The instructions are most definitely geared toward the sighted, and I 
 haven't been able to find a work around as of yet.  I can manage to download 
 individual files, but going about it this way will take an eternity I'm 
 sure.  As 

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick Neazer
Hello Jenny and all:

I do not know how long it has been since you got dropbox installed and running. 
I had posted some photographs to my dropbox account and then installed it on 
another computer. It took a while ... a while defined as about 20 minutes 
because I was using a slower connection than the one at the office and there 
were a number of videos. 

As  for the other files that were placed in your account by someone else, they 
should appear although how they were placed in terms of structure may be 
effecting your being able to see them. 

Have you attempted to place anything in the folders yourself?

Take good care and I wish you enough.
On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:

 Hi Paul.  Thank you very much for the response!  For some reason, I have 
 never successfully setup dropbox on my mac, apparently.  So, I scrapped all 
 of the previous installation and installers, revisited dropbox.com and 
 started fresh.  This time, I did manage to make get through the setup process 
 without a hitch.  Dropbox is running, and my dropbox folder is created and 
 ready for use.  I think my only question at this point is, I still have a 
 folder containing many files on the website.  I would love to have them sync 
 to my mac, or somehow retrieve them.  They were placed there by another 
 dropbox user who I had invited to access my new folder.  However, I am unable 
 to find a way to actually download them to my computer.  As I say, dropbox is 
 definitely running, but I don't see anything at all in the new dropbox 
 folder.  Does it perhaps take some time for this to happen? 
 
 Thank you!
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:(972) 989-3894
 Email:kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:   kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
 
 Hi Jenny Wood,
 Dropbox is usable on the mac. Not entirely accessible, but it is now usable. 
 If you downloaded the installer from dropbox.com recently, you will have 
 noticed that at least the dropbox mac setup is now fully accessible. That 
 was not the case a while ago, so that is a nice improvement.
 
 Second: why bother with the web interface. If you have more than one device 
 that you want to use dropbox on, then the idea is simple. The dropbox 
 website is your main place of storage. You can fill it with files, by having 
 your mac dropbox client upload stuff to that space on the web. 
 On your mac, inside your home folder, you have a new folder named dropbox. 
 You can reach this folder by hitting command shift h for your home folder in 
 finder. You will see documents, music and all your stuff there, plus this 
 new dropbox folder. Go into it, and drop anything you want uploaded to the 
 sight inside this home dropbox folder on your mac. The upload will happen 
 automatically, without any other user intervention. A while later, you will 
 find these files on the web in your dropbox account. Of course, dropbox will 
 have to be running on the mac for this to happen.
 
 If you now install dropbox on a second device, say an iPod touch, an iPhone, 
 or a windows computer, then all files in the dropbox space on the web will 
 automatically be downloaded to the new device. All you need to do to make 
 this happen, is install dropbox on the new device, and login with your 
 account. 
 
 To know if dropbox is running or not on your mac, you can check your users 
 and groups item in system preferences. Go to the menu bar, vo m, go down to 
 system preferences with vo down arrow, vo space on it, then move over to 
 preference panes, and interact with that. Now go to users and groups. You 
 can arrow around, or you can hit u s e in quick succession to have the vo 
 cursor move to users and groups. Hit vo space to open this item. Then hit vo 
 space on the login items tab. Move right, till you are on a list box with 
 your programs that startup automatically each time you turn on your mac, and 
 interact with the table. Look up and down and see if there is an item called 
 dropbox. If you find it here, then you know that dropbox is always active 
 from now on, and that the installation of dropbox succeeded. If you don't 
 find it, you will have to redo the installation of dropbox, so that the 
 dropbox item appears here. Once you have it in place, simply copy or move 
 files into your home dropbox folder on the mac to have them uploaded to the 
 web space. As soon as you synch your second device with the internet, all 
 files you uploaded on the mac will appear there as well. If you delete 
 something, doesn't matter from which device, it will also be deleted from 
 all other drop boxed devices. You don't need the web interface at all, nor 
 do you need to see the interface of your mac dropbox client. Just be sure 
 that it is running, and if it's not, just start it from your applications 
 folder, command shift a. If at some point you want to get rid of dropbox, 
 simply remove the dropbox entry from your user and groups login 

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-27 Thread Jenny Wood
Hi Patrick, thank you for taking the time to respond!  No, I haven't tried 
placing anything in the folder myself, but I will do so at some point today.  I 
finally got dropbox installed and setup this morning, so it hasn't been all 
that long.  I had created a new shared folder via the website, and my friend 
uploaded about sixteen folders containing around 20 - 25 files each into the 
shared folder I had created.  The shared folder I created on the website isn't 
even showing up under the dropbox folder on my machine. 

--

Jenny Wood
Phone:  (972) 989-3894
Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni




On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Patrick Neazer wrote:

 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 I do not know how long it has been since you got dropbox installed and 
 running. I had posted some photographs to my dropbox account and then 
 installed it on another computer. It took a while ... a while defined as 
 about 20 minutes because I was using a slower connection than the one at the 
 office and there were a number of videos. 
 
 As  for the other files that were placed in your account by someone else, 
 they should appear although how they were placed in terms of structure may be 
 effecting your being able to see them. 
 
 Have you attempted to place anything in the folders yourself?
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Paul.  Thank you very much for the response!  For some reason, I have 
 never successfully setup dropbox on my mac, apparently.  So, I scrapped all 
 of the previous installation and installers, revisited dropbox.com and 
 started fresh.  This time, I did manage to make get through the setup 
 process without a hitch.  Dropbox is running, and my dropbox folder is 
 created and ready for use.  I think my only question at this point is, I 
 still have a folder containing many files on the website.  I would love to 
 have them sync to my mac, or somehow retrieve them.  They were placed there 
 by another dropbox user who I had invited to access my new folder.  However, 
 I am unable to find a way to actually download them to my computer.  As I 
 say, dropbox is definitely running, but I don't see anything at all in the 
 new dropbox folder.  Does it perhaps take some time for this to happen? 
 
 Thank you!
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:   (972) 989-3894
 Email:   kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:  kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
 
 Hi Jenny Wood,
 Dropbox is usable on the mac. Not entirely accessible, but it is now 
 usable. If you downloaded the installer from dropbox.com recently, you will 
 have noticed that at least the dropbox mac setup is now fully accessible. 
 That was not the case a while ago, so that is a nice improvement.
 
 Second: why bother with the web interface. If you have more than one device 
 that you want to use dropbox on, then the idea is simple. The dropbox 
 website is your main place of storage. You can fill it with files, by 
 having your mac dropbox client upload stuff to that space on the web. 
 On your mac, inside your home folder, you have a new folder named dropbox. 
 You can reach this folder by hitting command shift h for your home folder 
 in finder. You will see documents, music and all your stuff there, plus 
 this new dropbox folder. Go into it, and drop anything you want uploaded to 
 the sight inside this home dropbox folder on your mac. The upload will 
 happen automatically, without any other user intervention. A while later, 
 you will find these files on the web in your dropbox account. Of course, 
 dropbox will have to be running on the mac for this to happen.
 
 If you now install dropbox on a second device, say an iPod touch, an 
 iPhone, or a windows computer, then all files in the dropbox space on the 
 web will automatically be downloaded to the new device. All you need to do 
 to make this happen, is install dropbox on the new device, and login with 
 your account. 
 
 To know if dropbox is running or not on your mac, you can check your users 
 and groups item in system preferences. Go to the menu bar, vo m, go down to 
 system preferences with vo down arrow, vo space on it, then move over to 
 preference panes, and interact with that. Now go to users and groups. You 
 can arrow around, or you can hit u s e in quick succession to have the vo 
 cursor move to users and groups. Hit vo space to open this item. Then hit 
 vo space on the login items tab. Move right, till you are on a list box 
 with your programs that startup automatically each time you turn on your 
 mac, and interact with the table. Look up and down and see if there is an 
 item called dropbox. If you find it here, then you know that dropbox is 
 always active from now on, and that the installation of dropbox succeeded. 
 If you don't find it, you will have to redo the installation of dropbox, so 
 that the dropbox item appears here. Once you have it in place, 

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick Neazer
Hello Jenny and all:

Ah, that is what I was wanting to know. That shared folder may not appear out 
of the box given how your friend set it up. However, if you or your friend 
could move those items into either the public folder or the photos folder 
(operating from the premise that the items are photographs), you ought to be 
able to see them then.

If you want to have a little bit of fun and you own an iphone ... grab the app. 
It is free and may provide you with another perspective on the functionality of 
dropbox.

Take good care and I wish you enough.
On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:

 Hi Patrick, thank you for taking the time to respond!  No, I haven't tried 
 placing anything in the folder myself, but I will do so at some point today.  
 I finally got dropbox installed and setup this morning, so it hasn't been all 
 that long.  I had created a new shared folder via the website, and my friend 
 uploaded about sixteen folders containing around 20 - 25 files each into the 
 shared folder I had created.  The shared folder I created on the website 
 isn't even showing up under the dropbox folder on my machine. 
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:(972) 989-3894
 Email:kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:   kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 I do not know how long it has been since you got dropbox installed and 
 running. I had posted some photographs to my dropbox account and then 
 installed it on another computer. It took a while ... a while defined as 
 about 20 minutes because I was using a slower connection than the one at the 
 office and there were a number of videos. 
 
 As  for the other files that were placed in your account by someone else, 
 they should appear although how they were placed in terms of structure may 
 be effecting your being able to see them. 
 
 Have you attempted to place anything in the folders yourself?
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Paul.  Thank you very much for the response!  For some reason, I have 
 never successfully setup dropbox on my mac, apparently.  So, I scrapped all 
 of the previous installation and installers, revisited dropbox.com and 
 started fresh.  This time, I did manage to make get through the setup 
 process without a hitch.  Dropbox is running, and my dropbox folder is 
 created and ready for use.  I think my only question at this point is, I 
 still have a folder containing many files on the website.  I would love to 
 have them sync to my mac, or somehow retrieve them.  They were placed there 
 by another dropbox user who I had invited to access my new folder.  
 However, I am unable to find a way to actually download them to my 
 computer.  As I say, dropbox is definitely running, but I don't see 
 anything at all in the new dropbox folder.  Does it perhaps take some time 
 for this to happen? 
 
 Thank you!
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:  (972) 989-3894
 Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
 
 Hi Jenny Wood,
 Dropbox is usable on the mac. Not entirely accessible, but it is now 
 usable. If you downloaded the installer from dropbox.com recently, you 
 will have noticed that at least the dropbox mac setup is now fully 
 accessible. That was not the case a while ago, so that is a nice 
 improvement.
 
 Second: why bother with the web interface. If you have more than one 
 device that you want to use dropbox on, then the idea is simple. The 
 dropbox website is your main place of storage. You can fill it with files, 
 by having your mac dropbox client upload stuff to that space on the web. 
 On your mac, inside your home folder, you have a new folder named dropbox. 
 You can reach this folder by hitting command shift h for your home folder 
 in finder. You will see documents, music and all your stuff there, plus 
 this new dropbox folder. Go into it, and drop anything you want uploaded 
 to the sight inside this home dropbox folder on your mac. The upload will 
 happen automatically, without any other user intervention. A while later, 
 you will find these files on the web in your dropbox account. Of course, 
 dropbox will have to be running on the mac for this to happen.
 
 If you now install dropbox on a second device, say an iPod touch, an 
 iPhone, or a windows computer, then all files in the dropbox space on the 
 web will automatically be downloaded to the new device. All you need to do 
 to make this happen, is install dropbox on the new device, and login with 
 your account. 
 
 To know if dropbox is running or not on your mac, you can check your users 
 and groups item in system preferences. Go to the menu bar, vo m, go down 
 to system preferences with vo down arrow, vo space on it, then move over 
 to preference panes, and interact with that. Now go to users and groups. 
 You can arrow 

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-27 Thread Jenny Wood
I had a feeling that might be the case. :-)  Hmmm, unfortunately, either I am 
missing something, or there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to move files 
from one folder to another via the website.

The reason I created the shared folder on the website itself, rather than on my 
own machine, is because from what I understand, there isn't a very 
voiceover-friendly way of accessing certain options, such as inviting someone 
to have access to a given folder or sending a link to someone for a specific 
file.  Is this still the case?   

  
--

Jenny Wood
Phone:  (972) 989-3894
Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni




On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:

 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 Ah, that is what I was wanting to know. That shared folder may not appear out 
 of the box given how your friend set it up. However, if you or your friend 
 could move those items into either the public folder or the photos folder 
 (operating from the premise that the items are photographs), you ought to be 
 able to see them then.
 
 If you want to have a little bit of fun and you own an iphone ... grab the 
 app. It is free and may provide you with another perspective on the 
 functionality of dropbox.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Patrick, thank you for taking the time to respond!  No, I haven't tried 
 placing anything in the folder myself, but I will do so at some point today. 
  I finally got dropbox installed and setup this morning, so it hasn't been 
 all that long.  I had created a new shared folder via the website, and my 
 friend uploaded about sixteen folders containing around 20 - 25 files each 
 into the shared folder I had created.  The shared folder I created on the 
 website isn't even showing up under the dropbox folder on my machine. 
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:   (972) 989-3894
 Email:   kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:  kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 I do not know how long it has been since you got dropbox installed and 
 running. I had posted some photographs to my dropbox account and then 
 installed it on another computer. It took a while ... a while defined as 
 about 20 minutes because I was using a slower connection than the one at 
 the office and there were a number of videos. 
 
 As  for the other files that were placed in your account by someone else, 
 they should appear although how they were placed in terms of structure may 
 be effecting your being able to see them. 
 
 Have you attempted to place anything in the folders yourself?
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Paul.  Thank you very much for the response!  For some reason, I have 
 never successfully setup dropbox on my mac, apparently.  So, I scrapped 
 all of the previous installation and installers, revisited dropbox.com and 
 started fresh.  This time, I did manage to make get through the setup 
 process without a hitch.  Dropbox is running, and my dropbox folder is 
 created and ready for use.  I think my only question at this point is, I 
 still have a folder containing many files on the website.  I would love to 
 have them sync to my mac, or somehow retrieve them.  They were placed 
 there by another dropbox user who I had invited to access my new folder.  
 However, I am unable to find a way to actually download them to my 
 computer.  As I say, dropbox is definitely running, but I don't see 
 anything at all in the new dropbox folder.  Does it perhaps take some time 
 for this to happen? 
 
 Thank you!
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone: (972) 989-3894
 Email: kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
 
 Hi Jenny Wood,
 Dropbox is usable on the mac. Not entirely accessible, but it is now 
 usable. If you downloaded the installer from dropbox.com recently, you 
 will have noticed that at least the dropbox mac setup is now fully 
 accessible. That was not the case a while ago, so that is a nice 
 improvement.
 
 Second: why bother with the web interface. If you have more than one 
 device that you want to use dropbox on, then the idea is simple. The 
 dropbox website is your main place of storage. You can fill it with 
 files, by having your mac dropbox client upload stuff to that space on 
 the web. 
 On your mac, inside your home folder, you have a new folder named 
 dropbox. You can reach this folder by hitting command shift h for your 
 home folder in finder. You will see documents, music and all your stuff 
 there, plus this new dropbox folder. Go into it, and drop anything you 
 want uploaded to the sight inside this home dropbox folder on your mac. 
 The upload will happen automatically, without any other user 
 intervention. A while later, you will find these files on the web in your 
 dropbox account. Of 

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jenny,
You don't need to do anything via the website any more. Focus on your 
/home/dropbox folder on your mac. To move files from one folder inside your 
dropbox to another folder in dropbox, just use finder as usual. The dropbox app 
will notice what you are doing, and reflect the file move immediately, and 
automagically, to the website. Just forget about the website. Now you can do 
anything from your mac to your dropbox. You can even move files into and out of 
your dropbox. Move something in, and the running dropbox app will notice it, 
upload it and that's that. All other connected devices will then synch and 
receive what you moved into your dropbox. Move something out of your dropbox, 
and the running mac dropbox app wil notice it, and delete the stuff you moved 
out of your dropbox from all connected devices as well. To invite other people, 
it is possible and sometimes desirable to use the website.
Hth,
Paul.
On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:

 I had a feeling that might be the case. :-)  Hmmm, unfortunately, either I am 
 missing something, or there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to move 
 files from one folder to another via the website.
 
 The reason I created the shared folder on the website itself, rather than on 
 my own machine, is because from what I understand, there isn't a very 
 voiceover-friendly way of accessing certain options, such as inviting someone 
 to have access to a given folder or sending a link to someone for a specific 
 file.  Is this still the case?   
 
   
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:(972) 989-3894
 Email:kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:   kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 Ah, that is what I was wanting to know. That shared folder may not appear 
 out of the box given how your friend set it up. However, if you or your 
 friend could move those items into either the public folder or the photos 
 folder (operating from the premise that the items are photographs), you 
 ought to be able to see them then.
 
 If you want to have a little bit of fun and you own an iphone ... grab the 
 app. It is free and may provide you with another perspective on the 
 functionality of dropbox.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Patrick, thank you for taking the time to respond!  No, I haven't tried 
 placing anything in the folder myself, but I will do so at some point 
 today.  I finally got dropbox installed and setup this morning, so it 
 hasn't been all that long.  I had created a new shared folder via the 
 website, and my friend uploaded about sixteen folders containing around 20 
 - 25 files each into the shared folder I had created.  The shared folder I 
 created on the website isn't even showing up under the dropbox folder on my 
 machine. 
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:  (972) 989-3894
 Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 I do not know how long it has been since you got dropbox installed and 
 running. I had posted some photographs to my dropbox account and then 
 installed it on another computer. It took a while ... a while defined as 
 about 20 minutes because I was using a slower connection than the one at 
 the office and there were a number of videos. 
 
 As  for the other files that were placed in your account by someone else, 
 they should appear although how they were placed in terms of structure may 
 be effecting your being able to see them. 
 
 Have you attempted to place anything in the folders yourself?
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Paul.  Thank you very much for the response!  For some reason, I have 
 never successfully setup dropbox on my mac, apparently.  So, I scrapped 
 all of the previous installation and installers, revisited dropbox.com 
 and started fresh.  This time, I did manage to make get through the setup 
 process without a hitch.  Dropbox is running, and my dropbox folder is 
 created and ready for use.  I think my only question at this point is, I 
 still have a folder containing many files on the website.  I would love 
 to have them sync to my mac, or somehow retrieve them.  They were placed 
 there by another dropbox user who I had invited to access my new folder.  
 However, I am unable to find a way to actually download them to my 
 computer.  As I say, dropbox is definitely running, but I don't see 
 anything at all in the new dropbox folder.  Does it perhaps take some 
 time for this to happen? 
 
 Thank you!
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:(972) 989-3894
 Email:kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:   kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
 
 Hi Jenny Wood,
 Dropbox is usable on the mac. Not entirely accessible, but it is now 
 usable. If you 

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-27 Thread Patrick Neazer
Hello Jenny and all:

When installing dropbox you have the option of using the regular or advanced 
setup options. The regular setup options provide you with the public and photo 
folders at the completion of the installation. The advanced options provide you 
with a list of folders dropbox may point to which you establish. I have not 
played much with the advanced option though it is my guess that your shared 
folder was not designated to be seen upon initial setup and you used the 
regular setup when you did it. Please correct me if I am wrong.

As for a way to send links ... here is an experiment. 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41895723/100_3978.MOV

This is a video I took while at the US Open. It is about 90 seconds long and it 
ought to play in quicktime. There is no objectionable material contained within 
the video so children do not need to be urged to leave the room. 

Let me know how it goes.

Take good care and I wish you enough.


On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:

 I had a feeling that might be the case. :-)  Hmmm, unfortunately, either I am 
 missing something, or there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to move 
 files from one folder to another via the website.
 
 The reason I created the shared folder on the website itself, rather than on 
 my own machine, is because from what I understand, there isn't a very 
 voiceover-friendly way of accessing certain options, such as inviting someone 
 to have access to a given folder or sending a link to someone for a specific 
 file.  Is this still the case?   
 
   
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:(972) 989-3894
 Email:kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:   kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 Ah, that is what I was wanting to know. That shared folder may not appear 
 out of the box given how your friend set it up. However, if you or your 
 friend could move those items into either the public folder or the photos 
 folder (operating from the premise that the items are photographs), you 
 ought to be able to see them then.
 
 If you want to have a little bit of fun and you own an iphone ... grab the 
 app. It is free and may provide you with another perspective on the 
 functionality of dropbox.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Patrick, thank you for taking the time to respond!  No, I haven't tried 
 placing anything in the folder myself, but I will do so at some point 
 today.  I finally got dropbox installed and setup this morning, so it 
 hasn't been all that long.  I had created a new shared folder via the 
 website, and my friend uploaded about sixteen folders containing around 20 
 - 25 files each into the shared folder I had created.  The shared folder I 
 created on the website isn't even showing up under the dropbox folder on my 
 machine. 
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:  (972) 989-3894
 Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 I do not know how long it has been since you got dropbox installed and 
 running. I had posted some photographs to my dropbox account and then 
 installed it on another computer. It took a while ... a while defined as 
 about 20 minutes because I was using a slower connection than the one at 
 the office and there were a number of videos. 
 
 As  for the other files that were placed in your account by someone else, 
 they should appear although how they were placed in terms of structure may 
 be effecting your being able to see them. 
 
 Have you attempted to place anything in the folders yourself?
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Paul.  Thank you very much for the response!  For some reason, I have 
 never successfully setup dropbox on my mac, apparently.  So, I scrapped 
 all of the previous installation and installers, revisited dropbox.com 
 and started fresh.  This time, I did manage to make get through the setup 
 process without a hitch.  Dropbox is running, and my dropbox folder is 
 created and ready for use.  I think my only question at this point is, I 
 still have a folder containing many files on the website.  I would love 
 to have them sync to my mac, or somehow retrieve them.  They were placed 
 there by another dropbox user who I had invited to access my new folder.  
 However, I am unable to find a way to actually download them to my 
 computer.  As I say, dropbox is definitely running, but I don't see 
 anything at all in the new dropbox folder.  Does it perhaps take some 
 time for this to happen? 
 
 Thank you!
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:(972) 989-3894
 Email:kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:   kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
 
 Hi Jenny Wood,
 Dropbox is usable on the mac. Not entirely accessible, but it is now 
 usable. 

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-27 Thread Jenny Wood
Hi Paul!  Well, now that dropbox appears to be installed correctly, I will most 
definitely rely primarily on the dropbox folder on my mac.  The only issue I am 
having currently, is retrieving files shared from a friend to the folder I 
created on the web.  That folder doesn't show up on my mac for whatever reason. 
 So, as a tedious work-around, I am downloading each individual file to my 
downloads folder, then moving them to the desired location.  Mind you, these 
are files that were never on my own mac before, but rather shared from a friend.

--

Jenny Wood
Phone:  (972) 989-3894
Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni




On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:37 PM, Paul Erkens wrote:

 Hi Jenny,
 You don't need to do anything via the website any more. Focus on your 
 /home/dropbox folder on your mac. To move files from one folder inside your 
 dropbox to another folder in dropbox, just use finder as usual. The dropbox 
 app will notice what you are doing, and reflect the file move immediately, 
 and automagically, to the website. Just forget about the website. Now you can 
 do anything from your mac to your dropbox. You can even move files into and 
 out of your dropbox. Move something in, and the running dropbox app will 
 notice it, upload it and that's that. All other connected devices will then 
 synch and receive what you moved into your dropbox. Move something out of 
 your dropbox, and the running mac dropbox app wil notice it, and delete the 
 stuff you moved out of your dropbox from all connected devices as well. To 
 invite other people, it is possible and sometimes desirable to use the 
 website.
 Hth,
 Paul.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 I had a feeling that might be the case. :-)  Hmmm, unfortunately, either I 
 am missing something, or there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to move 
 files from one folder to another via the website.
 
 The reason I created the shared folder on the website itself, rather than on 
 my own machine, is because from what I understand, there isn't a very 
 voiceover-friendly way of accessing certain options, such as inviting 
 someone to have access to a given folder or sending a link to someone for a 
 specific file.  Is this still the case?   
 
   
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone:   (972) 989-3894
 Email:   kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:  kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 Ah, that is what I was wanting to know. That shared folder may not appear 
 out of the box given how your friend set it up. However, if you or your 
 friend could move those items into either the public folder or the photos 
 folder (operating from the premise that the items are photographs), you 
 ought to be able to see them then.
 
 If you want to have a little bit of fun and you own an iphone ... grab the 
 app. It is free and may provide you with another perspective on the 
 functionality of dropbox.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Patrick, thank you for taking the time to respond!  No, I haven't tried 
 placing anything in the folder myself, but I will do so at some point 
 today.  I finally got dropbox installed and setup this morning, so it 
 hasn't been all that long.  I had created a new shared folder via the 
 website, and my friend uploaded about sixteen folders containing around 20 
 - 25 files each into the shared folder I had created.  The shared folder I 
 created on the website isn't even showing up under the dropbox folder on 
 my machine. 
 
 --
 
 Jenny Wood
 Phone: (972) 989-3894
 Email: kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 I do not know how long it has been since you got dropbox installed and 
 running. I had posted some photographs to my dropbox account and then 
 installed it on another computer. It took a while ... a while defined as 
 about 20 minutes because I was using a slower connection than the one at 
 the office and there were a number of videos. 
 
 As  for the other files that were placed in your account by someone else, 
 they should appear although how they were placed in terms of structure 
 may be effecting your being able to see them. 
 
 Have you attempted to place anything in the folders yourself?
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Paul.  Thank you very much for the response!  For some reason, I have 
 never successfully setup dropbox on my mac, apparently.  So, I scrapped 
 all of the previous installation and installers, revisited dropbox.com 
 and started fresh.  This time, I did manage to make get through the 
 setup process without a hitch.  Dropbox is running, and my dropbox 
 folder is created and ready for use.  I think my only question at this 
 point is, I still have a folder containing many files on 

Re: Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-27 Thread Jenny Wood
Hi Patrick, Paul  all.  Okay, so I don't know exactly what happened, but after 
having removed and reinstalled the dropbox desktop app a number of times, my 
newly created shared folder and all of it's contents are suddenly showing up!  
I am completely beside myself here, thrilled, but baffled.  The only difference 
in the process this time was selecting the Advanced setup verses the Typical 
setup, and having killed off the previous link to my account and recreating it. 
 It didn't prompt me for any additional information after having chosen 
Advanced setup though.  Interesting.  
So, I was able to view, or rather, listen, to your video with no problem.  
That's really my only other big hangup about using the desktop app, although 
the website is just as unaccessible, I am still not sure how I will go about 
sending a public link when the time comes.  But I am so excited to finally see 
my files! ;-)  

Thank you guys, for your continued help!

--

Jenny Wood
Phone:  (972) 989-3894
Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
Facebook/Twitter/Skype: kc5gni




On Sep 27, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:

 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 When installing dropbox you have the option of using the regular or advanced 
 setup options. The regular setup options provide you with the public and 
 photo folders at the completion of the installation. The advanced options 
 provide you with a list of folders dropbox may point to which you establish. 
 I have not played much with the advanced option though it is my guess that 
 your shared folder was not designated to be seen upon initial setup and you 
 used the regular setup when you did it. Please correct me if I am wrong.
 
 As for a way to send links ... here is an experiment. 
 
 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41895723/100_3978.MOV
 
 This is a video I took while at the US Open. It is about 90 seconds long and 
 it ought to play in quicktime. There is no objectionable material contained 
 within the video so children do not need to be urged to leave the room. 
 
 Let me know how it goes.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 I had a feeling that might be the case. :-)  Hmmm, unfortunately, either I 
 am missing something, or there doesn't appear to be any obvious way to move 
 files from one folder to another via the website.
 
 The reason I created the shared folder on the website itself, rather than on 
 my own machine, is because from what I understand, there isn't a very 
 voiceover-friendly way of accessing certain options, such as inviting 
 someone to have access to a given folder or sending a link to someone for a 
 specific file.  Is this still the case?   
 
   
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 Email:   kc5...@gmail.com
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 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 Ah, that is what I was wanting to know. That shared folder may not appear 
 out of the box given how your friend set it up. However, if you or your 
 friend could move those items into either the public folder or the photos 
 folder (operating from the premise that the items are photographs), you 
 ought to be able to see them then.
 
 If you want to have a little bit of fun and you own an iphone ... grab the 
 app. It is free and may provide you with another perspective on the 
 functionality of dropbox.
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Patrick, thank you for taking the time to respond!  No, I haven't tried 
 placing anything in the folder myself, but I will do so at some point 
 today.  I finally got dropbox installed and setup this morning, so it 
 hasn't been all that long.  I had created a new shared folder via the 
 website, and my friend uploaded about sixteen folders containing around 20 
 - 25 files each into the shared folder I had created.  The shared folder I 
 created on the website isn't even showing up under the dropbox folder on 
 my machine. 
 
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 Phone: (972) 989-3894
 Email: kc5...@gmail.com
 Facebook/Twitter/Skype:kc5gni
 
 
 
 
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Patrick Neazer wrote:
 
 Hello Jenny and all:
 
 I do not know how long it has been since you got dropbox installed and 
 running. I had posted some photographs to my dropbox account and then 
 installed it on another computer. It took a while ... a while defined as 
 about 20 minutes because I was using a slower connection than the one at 
 the office and there were a number of videos. 
 
 As  for the other files that were placed in your account by someone else, 
 they should appear although how they were placed in terms of structure 
 may be effecting your being able to see them. 
 
 Have you attempted to place anything in the folders yourself?
 
 Take good care and I wish you enough.
 On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:
 
 Hi Paul.  Thank you very much for the response!  For some 

Downloading folders from dropbox website

2011-09-26 Thread Jenny Wood
Good day all.  I have just started playing with dropbox, so I am very new to 
this particular service.  I understand that there are all kinds of 
accessibility issues with dropbox on Lion, but I am curious, if there is a way 
to download an entire folder from the website interface without sight?  The 
instructions are most definitely geared toward the sighted, and I haven't been 
able to find a work around as of yet.  I can manage to download individual 
files, but going about it this way will take an eternity I'm sure.  As 
expected, I haven't been able to make heads or tails of the desktop app.  I am 
running Lion, btw, with the latest updates.  Thank you for any help you can 
offer!   

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Email:  kc5...@gmail.com
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