How To Use Your Dropbox

Drag and drop the work files you use most frequently into your dropbox.

How to use your dropbox. Any file that you save to a team folder a folder with a building icon is automatically shared with everyone with access to that folder. Click the dropbox icon in your system tray or menu bar. Click invite your gmail contacts. Spaces lets you add files and cloud content together in one place so all of it can live next to your google docs trello boards and whatever tools your team wants to use. If you change the file locally it will be updated in.

It will open a list of all your gmail contacts in a new pop up window and allow you to select contacts to invite. It works like any other folder on your file system but any files you move or create here will be uploaded to the dropbox cloud. Dropbox is one of the best apps out there for backing up and syncing files between devices. Click your avata profile picture or initials in the top right corner. With dropbox basic it s easy to get to your files from multiple devices computers phones and tablets for free.

Setting up dropbox only takes a few minutes and files sync in th. Use dropbox spaces to keep you organized and transform your folders into connected workspaces that bring your team s content to life. They can sign up via your invite and start using dropbox immediately. This will copy your files into the dropbox folder from which point they will upload to your dropbox account. That doesn t free space on your hard drive though.

To use the dropbox folder in finder or file explorer instead of the desktop app. Once your files finish uploading they re available to access from any computer or mobile device on which you re logged into dropbox. Install our desktop app and everything in your account will appear in the dropbox folder on your computer. Move your copied files into dropbox. 2 to confirm that all files in your dropbox folder have finished uploading to the cloud click.

Click the copy link button. 1 to confirm that dropbox is in the process of saving your uploaded file to the cloud check to see if the dropbox icon on the taskbar animates with a swirl right after you drag a file into your dropbox folder see the second image that displays the blue dropbox icon to see this swirl animation.