Hey YouTube! Tech Intimidation here with another quick tip,
three ways to share and collaborate using Dropbox.
So, there are multiple ways to share files using Dropbox. The first one
is with a folder or file
in Dropbox just right-click, and choose share link.
That makes this file...
that individual file... publicly available at a link that it's about to share with
you.
You can immediately share it, if you fill in this form with an email.
It will email that person with a link to this file,
or you just click the "get link" button and it will copy it to your
clipboard. Now at this file up here now...
this URL...
This file is now publicly available at this URL. So you can
text it. You can email it. Twitter,
whatever you want to do. This file is now open to the world.
The second way that you can share files...
Oh! And if you wanna stop sharing it, just click
remove link. Or if you just go back to your Dropbox...
If you look under links,
here on the left, it will show you all the files that you currently have made
publicly available.
And if you wanna stop it just click the X. The second way...
is by sharing a folder.
The way you do that is... click the folder icon with a little rainbow (a happy rainbow) on it.
Click share and you can create
or share an existing folder. I'm going to make a new one
called Shared Folder. And I'm going to share it with myself.
And it does two things. It creates a folder to be shared,
and it emails the person that you just shared it with.
So let's check my other email account. And
I received an email it says: "Tech Intimidation would like to share this
folder with you."
If I click it sends me to Dropbox, and I just
login.
And it says: "You now have a shared folder." Just click accept
and now this folder appears in my Dropbox. It's currently empty.
Now I, or the
the original creator of the folder...
either one of us can put things in there and it becomes immediately available
with the other person. So if I drop this folder,
or this photo in here. I can see it
as myself. And if I go back to the
Tech Intimidation side and look in the shared folder...
that photo is now in there as well. So you can instantly share
without a whole lot of fus. That's kind of the nice feature of
the shared folder. The third way
is the less obvious way. And with new accounts this isn't
available by default but I have another video
if you click the annotation.
I have another video that shows you how to enable this feature which is the
public folder.
With the public folder its
basically a folder that is always
publicly available to the world.
So anything you put inside this public folder is
immediately available to the world. And so
what you would do with any file in here once you put in public all you need to do is
"copy public link."
And then you can email that anyone
and its doesn't matter if they have a Dropbox account or
not. They can download it. And
if your friend doesn't know how to download just a text link to a file
I have another video about that as well and I will pop that in right here.
And thats it! So there's multiple ways to share things using Dropbox.
All of which are pretty simple. If you have any comments please leave them below.
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