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> At 06:10 AM 6/4/2011, RussellMc wrote:
> >2. Any way to give access to a whole subfolder - system seems to want
> >to give a link per file.

> Yes - but I don't remember the specific details as to how to do
> it. =A0However, the process was easy and seemed intuitive.

In private area only. Not in public area.

I've found that:

1. In the public area you can only share on a file by file basis.
You cannot publish a public folder with multiple files in it.

They specifically note that this can't be done

2.  In the private area, if you give access to a folder to guest_A by
sending them a link and they create a dropbox account then for then on
they can see folder in their dropbox.
If you then give guest_A access to a second folder it does NOT send
them a second request or link but just asks them via  their dropbox
menu if they want to accept the second shared folder and, if so, it is
from then in immediately available to them in their dropbox.

3. You can share a folder with N guests without any sharing of other
folders by creating a guest_X  email account somewhere, creating a
dropbox for that guest X and hen having all guests who you want to
have access log on to drop box as if they were guest_X. You can have
multiple accesses at once to the guest_X dropbox. This is a useful
mode but not directly supported by dropbox.

Note that anyone logged in as guest X can add or delete files as desired.

4. You CAN place subfolders in folders in your drop box but if you
share a subfolder and not the whole folder with a guest the folder
nesting is not present at their end. eg

                  Colour_swatches\Octarine

if shared with guest-x will appear as \Octarine in their dropbox.

5. Files in an online dropbox will appear in the linked PC drop box of
any PC as soon as it logs on AND will show final files sizes using DIR
etc even though the file shas not yet been downloaded. This is very
useful as long as it is appreciated that the file may not yet have
made the hyperspace jump even though its directory entry has. That
this happens can be seen by wathcing disk capacity which falls
steadily as data is downloaded. A message is given when
synchronisation has finished. If you access a not yet downloaded file
it may well give preferential download of that files BUT I have not
tried that yet.

6. More

Making a "data river" that flowed between two remote PCs should be
extremely easy and would allow low level use by wholly non net-aware
applications.
Things like eg offsite backup of ultra-legacy applications.

Overall - powerful, useful, no seen bugs yet, a little quirky, good to have=
..



       Russell

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