Dropbox's New feature - Links

andybot

Paul - re links - I think Csaba has a good point. Once a link is "live" and on a site like sketchucation, it can get posted far and wide. (Just going by the kind of links I see in my website analysis reports for my blog) I wonder if, like images, there is a way to make links on Sketchucation private to registered users instead of being seen on the web by unregistered users.

Good pointer about dropbox linking thoug. Like you mention sharing files with clients may be useful to use this feature.

simon le bon

Hi Paul,

Interesting way to use that sort of services to connect yourself as a nomad "on the cloud" I have to better watch and study your explanations. Especially the selective sync feature in DB connected with Link Shell Extension

Thank you for sharing this nice collection of materials. I have leeched a bunch of them and bookmarked your thread

I thought I had a DropBox account and had tried unsuccessfully to login. After some searches in my papers it had appeared that I had a "BOX" account !!!

https://www.dropbox.com/ versus https://www.box.com/ : It seems to me that they give about the same. I think Box allows also the Dropbox's new linking feature, but the Sync desktop files is reserved to business account ($15 / user / month!!)
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/reviews/dropbox-vs-box-net-free-editions-reviewed-and-compared/
http://www.smallcloudbuilder.com/storage/articles/414-dropbox-vs-boxnet

Box:
Storage: 5.0GB
Bandwidth: 10.0GB
Max file size: 25 MB — Upload files up to 2GB

Cheers, simon

Paul Russam

I tried Box and couldn't get on with it, I have 10 or so folders shared with other Dropbox users so I'm pretty invested in DB.

Here's a good example of using a shared folder, my wife also has DB and constantly wants me to knock up a logo for either her organisation or for some other charity she knows. She'll drop a couple of sketches/images in our shared folder and I'll make a logo, it'll go to and fro a bit before its finalised but its so easy, no multiple emails , no paper.

Another example, she often has to write tenders for funding and on a lot of occasions several seperate organisations will team together to stand a better chance. She will set up a shared folder specific to the tender and share it with all the participants. They can then all write / save / submit their parts of the tender to the shared folder and check each others work for overlaps, errors or Missing parts.

Edit:
Just found a review/guide for the link feature.
http://www.techhive.com/article/2000045/hands-on-with-dropboxs-latest-update.html

simon le bon

Very interesting,
I think I'm going to sign for DB
Simon

tridem

Simon (or any other), remember to sign in with a invitation link from another user in order to earn additional space, it should be +500MB each

Paul Russam

I've edited the 1st post and changed the direct link to a text file attachment containing the link, this way only SCF members will be able to view it and with luck it wont spread beyond the forum (too much)
This was a suggestion by Simon Le Bon - Thanks

Tridem's right, If you sign up through the website you'll get 2Gb, If you get another DB user to invite you then you'll both get an additional 500Mb.
Subsequently anytime you invite another person AND THEY SIGN UP to Dropbox you'll both get an additional 500Mb.
I'm currently at 6.25Gb

simon le bon

@tridem said:

Simon (or any other), remember to sign in with a invitation link from another user in order to earn additional space, it should be +500MB each

thank you Tridem for the advice!
Paul had invited me. I've now a DropBox account with 2,5 Gb

I immediately use the "Dropbox's New feature - Links" to share some materials: - some of then picked to Paul collection -without bandwidth security due to the low quantity I have posted.