Hi Marcus, Its the same Dropbox as Neil is speaking about - but you have upgraded your Dropbox Account to Dropbox Pro -US$99 p.a. You should have 1TB of storage space for US$99 p.a.
"Other than the extra space, the only things different about Dropbox Pro accounts are that they can optionally add passwords or expiration dates to shared links, share folders with read-only access, buy the Extended Version History feature, and remotely wipe a Dropbox folder. Dropbox originally offered 50, 100, and 250 GB tiers. In July 2012 they doubled storage space for all paid users without raising prices, and in 2014 they increased storage quotas by a factor of ten—again, without increasing prices. I can’t promise they’ll do this again, but given the competitive nature of cloud storage services, I wouldn’t be surprised.” Cheers, Ronni > On 20 Jan 2016, at 2:17 PM, Marcus F Harris <cryptodo...@me.com> wrote: > > Thank You Neil. What you have told me is most useful. > > I think the confusion may be that I purchased “Dropbox” US$99 pa, which I > have been using to store many Gigabytes of files and photos. > > I was stupidly not thinking about copying from documents by holding down > “option” key and that reminder helped me greatly. > > Whether or not this is substantially different from the OSX Dropbox I don’t > yet know. > > But I do know that for me it is a very useful app. > https://www.dropbox.com <https://www.dropbox.com/> > > Thanks again > Marcus > Marcus Harris > P.O. Box 7135 > Marcus Harris > Shenton Park > Western Australia 6008 > Australia > Cryptodome Pty Ltd > cryptodo...@me.com <mailto:cryptodo...@me.com> > Mob: +61 (0) 417965618 > > > > > > On 20 Jan 2016, at 11:43 am, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com > <mailto:n...@possumology.com>> wrote: > >> Hi Marcus, >> >> I must admit, I’m still not quite clear on what you are doing or why. >> >> What do you mean by “OSX Dropbox rather than the App Drop Box.” >> >> There are Dropbox apps for IOS and OSX. >> >> The OSX Dropbox app keeps files in your OSX Dropbox folder synched with your >> off-site Dropbox folders (in Dropbox’s server cloud). The OSX Dropbox folder >> lives in your OSX user folder, alongside your OSX Documents folder. >> >> The IOS Dropbox app (which you may or may not use) works slightly >> differently – it gives you access to your off-site (cloud) Dropbox files (as >> long as you are connected to the net) but, primarily due to the storage >> limitations of mobile devices, it does not store any copies of these files >> on your mobile device UNLESS you choose to make an offline copy of that file >> for access when your mobile device is not online. >> >> Your time machine disk drive (depending how you have configured time >> machine) keeps a comprehensive back-up of your computer and all your files >> but, as you note, this will not be much use if some event causes loss of >> both your iMac AND the time machine disk. So an off-site back-up is >> certainly recommended. >> >> Dropbox is really meant to be a synching app, rather than a back-up app but, >> having said that, it does provide a level of off-site back-up and I do use >> it for that myself – but it is important to remember that it is only >> providing synch/backup to those items in your OSX Dropbox folder – any other >> items on your computer (eg in your documents, pictures, music, movies, >> downloads folders or on your desktop) will not be saved through Dropbox – so >> if your only backup is your time machine disk drive and you lose that with >> your iMac – then those files are lost forever! >> >> I would strongly recommend spending a bit of time browsing through the >> Dropbox Help Centre <https://www.dropbox.com/help >> <https://www.dropbox.com/help>> to get a better understanding of the ins and >> outs of using Dropbox. If you DO ever loose both your iMac AND the time >> machine disk, it will be very important to understand exactly how Dropbox >> works to be able to maximise your Dropbox recovery options and not also lose >> your Dropbox files. >> >> >> HTH >> >> >> >> Neil >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: n...@possumology.com <mailto:n...@possumology.com> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> on 19/1/16 21:35, Marcus F Harris at cryptodo...@me.com >> <mailto:cryptodo...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> Thank you Neil and Steven, >>> I'm wondering if you are referring to OSX Dropbox rather than the App Drop >>> Box. >>> I have the impression that the purchased Drop Box (Trade Marked) does sync >>> files across platforms. But I would then have to start working my files >>> exclusively in Drop Box. Hadn't thought of that. Good idea if I remembered >>> to copy back to Documents. At 72 I'm a bit forgetful. >>> >>> I've chosen to copy my files to Drop Box to have them off-site from my >>> home. That's because my time machine disc drive is cabled directly to my >>> iMac and any misfortune to both together on my desk would be most >>> unfortunate. >>> Thanks again for reminding me to hold down option key to copy then paste. >>> Regards >>> Marcus >>> >>> Message sent from Marcus's iThing >>> >>> On 19 Jan 2016, at 20:23, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com >>> <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Marcus, >>>> I have never dragged and dropped to Dropbox. >>>> When I save a file in my Mac Dropbox folder it is automatically saved >>>> offsite to Dropbox. >>>> >>>> So I am not sure why you want to do this ? >>>> >>>>> On 19 Jan 2016, at 6:18 PM, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com >>>>> <mailto:n...@possumology.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Re: SAVING TO DROPBOX (TM) >>>>> Hi Marcus, >>>>> >>>>> Drag & drop always moves the file, rather than copying, unless you are >>>>> dragging to another disk or volume – when it does copy the file to the >>>>> other disk/volume and leaves the original where it is. As Mike says, if >>>>> you want to copy the file to another location on the same disk/volume >>>>> hold down the option key while you drag the file. >>>>> >>>>> Remember that “Dropbox” is an actual folder on your computer – this is >>>>> the folder that Dropbox keeps in synch, through the cloud, with your >>>>> other computers. >>>>> >>>>> So if you copy the file from your documents folder to the dropbox folder >>>>> (rather than moving it) you will then have two instances of the file on >>>>> your computer. Now you MAY want this, eg to keep an archive version, or a >>>>> temporary work version, in your documents folder, BUT you then need to be >>>>> very careful which version you work on! >>>>> >>>>> Any modifications to the file in your documents folder will not be >>>>> reflected in the dropbox version (on your computer, other computers or in >>>>> the cloud) and vice versa. Similarly if you continue to work on your >>>>> dropbox version, the version in your documents folder will be out of date. >>>>> >>>>> As I say, you may have a good reason to keep different versions of the >>>>> file on your computer but, if it was me, to avoid confusion (or >>>>> accidentally working on the wrong version) I would name the files >>>>> differently – eg add a suffix to reflect the status of the particular >>>>> version – could be temp or archive or as simple as a rev indicator: 1, 2, >>>>> 3 or a, b, c. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Just a thought. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Neil
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