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How can I make sure an app registers with Mountain Lion's Notification Center?
I own two Macs with an identical set of apps that both have the latest version of Mountain Lion (10.8.2). On one Mac, many of these apps register with Notification Center (NC). On the other, many do ...
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Can I upload attachments to Dropbox from Mail.app?
Now that Google has bought Sparrow, and Sparrow for OS X is likely to be gutted soon, I'm contemplating going back to Apple's Mail.app. However, one of the best features I've found in Sparrow is the ...
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Why does Dropbox add *com.dropbox.attributes files?
I'm a Mac user who shares various files in Dropbox with my Windows-using colleagues. Regularly, I find lots *com.dropbox.attributes files in my shared folders. This appears to create one for each ...
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Dropbox asks me for password and resync on DropBox start
Everytime I start the Dropbox app (version 2.10.41) on Mac OS X (version 10.9.5) it asks me to log in and after login it starts to sync and tells me that my computer is linked successfully.
This ...
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How do I change the folder where Dropbox saves my screenshots?
By default, Dropbox saves screenshots in ~/Dropbox/Screenshots.
How do I change the folder where these screenshots are saved?
I'm running macOS:
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: ...
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OSX: Making sure Dropbox always starts after SD card is mounted?
I have a Macbook Pro with a relatively small SSD, so I use a 128GB MicroSD card in a nifty little adapter I plug flush into the side of the laptop for some extra storage. I have quite a large Dropbox,...
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New File via Dropbox Does Not Inherit Windows Directory Permissions
Environment:
Windows Server 2012
Mac OS 10.6.8
Dropbox
The purpose of the Dropbox share is to allow the user on the Mac to move files into a directory that is served by IIS on the Windows Server ...
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Dropbox folder permissions changing to 700 and causing re-sync
I've just got myself a new Macbook Pro 13" running Mavericks, my first experience of OSX 10.9 having moved up from an older mac running 10.7.
After setting up my local web development environment and ...
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Mac Dropbox client not syncing; weird menubar behaviour
Old hackintosh with 10.6.3 on it. Everything used to work just fine, but about 2 weeks ago I noticed it wasn't syncing.
I've tried removing/reinstalling, rebooting, fixing permissions, wiping out ...
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View/edit Mac OS X's Finder labels from a Windows PC
Is it possible to view and/or edit the Mac's Finder labels (applied to folders and/or files) from a Windows PC?
We are sharing files via Dropbox and it'd be nice if the few Windows users we have ...
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looking to sync icloud / drop box at a specific time ( to take advantage of lower cost internet between midnight and 6am)
i'm being killed with upload volumes and have identified it's probably my drop box files, photos, etc being synced. I've had a look at IFTTT and can't find a way via a recipe. Any ideas? (Other than ...
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How can I run Dropbox on Mac OS X Mountain Lion without logging in?
I'm using Dropbox to sync files to my web site, which is running on Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Problem is, if I am not logged in, Dropbox isn't running and as a result any changes I make to my web site ...
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App to share links, files and screenshots with a friend, the interactive way
The kind of app I'm looking for is pretty specific. So please read the whole paragraph before answering.
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The idea is to have a "tunnel", or a pipe, between two users. We are talking about a ...
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Restore Default OSX Home Folder Icons
I want to keep folders such as Pictures and Documents in my home folder in sync between computers; at the moment, I'm using Dropbox to do this. On Computer A I added a symlink to the folders in my ...
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Idisk Sync - Progress on 4GB Encrypted Volume
I'm trying to gauge the progress on a 4gb truecrypt volume I'm putting on my idisk. The progress indicator only has one item and perpetually stays at 0%. Is there any way to know how much of the file ...
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