{"id":79,"date":"2009-03-30T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-03-30T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:09:15","slug":"dropbox-sync-and-share-files-across-multiple-desktops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/dropbox-sync-and-share-files-across-multiple-desktops\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox: Sync and share files across multiple desktops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-82\" title=\"dropbox_logo2\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-12-300x99.png\" alt=\"dropbox_logo2\" width=\"189\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-12-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-12.png 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you work on multiple computers, you probably need a way to get ahold of your files and documents. You could email them to yourself, put them on a USB drive, or use a file server, but it might be easier to use a free service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getdropbox.com\/\">Dropbox<\/a>. This service allows you to stick a folder on each of your computers. Whenever you drop a file or document in your Dropbox folder, it&#8217;s synced onto every computer where Dropbox is installed.<\/p>\n<p>The cool part is that Dropbox updates whenever you make a change to your documents, so you know you&#8217;re working on the latest version. It also allows you to access your files and documents through a Web interface, and it even allows you to recover documents you&#8217;ve deleted or changed.<\/p>\n<p>You can also use Dropbox to share files with other users, so it might be a good solution for a collaborative project or to share photos. It works on both Windows and Mac. I learned about Dropbox through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasongriffey.net\/wp\/2009\/03\/25\/hack-of-the-week-dropbox\/\">Pattern Recognition<\/a>, whose owner uses the service to set his desktop wallpaper across multiple machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you work on multiple computers, you probably need a way to get ahold of your files and documents. You could email them to yourself, put them on a USB drive, or use a file server, but it might be easier to use a free service called Dropbox. This service allows you to stick a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[27,28,330],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","tag-file-sharing","tag-file-syncing","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}