Drop Box or Public folder?
What is the difference between the Drop Box and Public folders? Which is easier for getting files to other users?
all users have read access to your Public folder. so if you want to make something available fro everybody to view that's a good place to put it. but nobody but you can write to your Public folder or change anything in it. but everybody can drop files into your DropBox. they will no longer see or have access to the files dropped into the drop box but you will and you'll automatically get write rights to anything others put in your drop box.
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I've scoured the Internet but just can't seem to find the answer to a relatively simple question, and that is: Can the Drop Box from a user's Public folder be renamed - or have a name added to it - without messing up its permissions? I have multiple users on my Mac and would like to add their Drop Boxes to my Sidebar, but without changing the name I have no way to easily recognize/distinguish which user which Drop Box belongs to.
Thanks.Yes, it works and does not alter existing privileges. But it may only be done from within the users' accounts since you don't "own" a user's drop box or Public folder.
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Dropbox folder in Public folder
I have deleted my dropbox account, but on my Macbook in a folder called Public, there appear a folder called dropbox. when i delete it it still appears next time i start my Mac. Why?? Can you help me. Maybe delete a link on my former account
The folder "Drop Box" inside the folder "Public" has nothing to do with the "Dropbox" service, despite the name similarity. The "Drop Box" folder is provided by Apple for other users on your computer or your local network (if there are any) can pass files to you securely. (They can drop files into the folder but not look into the folder, kind of like an old-fashioned suggestion box or a postal collection box.)
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Drop Box folder in the Public folder not showing on the network
Hi everyone,
I am running a MacBook Pro 2010 running OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion. We have an office and multiple mac computers connected to our network. For us to transfer files we use the Drop Box folder inside the Public folder (We do not use the dropbox website/service). We would use the finder and click on the computer on the sidebar, open the Drop Box folder and drag files in with no hassel. However my Drop Box folder is not showing up when other users are trying to access my computer via the network.
My file sharing is on and I have attached an image with the settings I am using. I have compared these settings to other macs in the office that have a working Drop Box folder and they match. Hope you guys can help me.Contact Drop Box tech support.
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Duplicate Drop Box Folder in Public Folder
Hi!
I'm using Lion 10.7.2. The Drop Box folder appears twice in my Public folder:
in English = Drop Box
and in French, default system language = Boîte de dépôt
If I delete one of the folders, it reappers later on.
Are you experiencing the same problem? Have you find any solution? Thank you!It appears that
the [English] Drop Box folder doesn't have a .Localise file
while the [French] Boîte de dépôt does have one.
How to proceed?
ask for hidden files to be shown—I use the superb Onyx utility
go to the Public folder
delete the [French] Boîte de dépôt folder
copy/paste the .Localise file into the [English] Drop Box
magics happen: Drop Box is now called Boîte de dépôt -
Repair Public folder and Drop Box
We have some Macs here connected via Ethernet/Router. Unfortunately on one of them there are problems now with files (created on one of the other Macs) which have been copied via the 'Public' folder or 'Drop Box'. Normally I can do everything with such files (from the other Macs), but now I always have to enter my password or change permissions when I want to f.e. edit/save/move/delete such a file. I remember I once ran a script which might have changed permissions. How can I get the original settings for these folders so that files will arrive in normal condition again?
Thanks!
Examples:
"Modified" Drop Box:
home (Me) Read & Write
staff Write only (Drop Box)
everyone (Drop Box)
Note: The line "home (Me) Custom" which can be found on our other Macs is missing
A "Modified" pages file:
nobody Read & Write ( ! )
staff Read only ( ! )
everyone Read only ( ! )Thanks Barney, we are using 10.6.8 on all Macs. The Drop Box of Mac #2 (with the problem) looks (via Get Info) as I'd specified & corrected:
home (Me) Read & Write
staff Write only (Drop Box)
everyone Write only (Drop Box)
The other Macs (#1 and #3) without symptoms look:
zome (Me) Custom
zome (Me) Read & Write
staff Write only (Drop Box)
everyone Write only (Drop Box)
yome (Me) Custom
yome (Me) Read & Write
staff Write only (Drop Box)
everyone Write only (Drop Box)
Result of "ls -le Public" on Mac #2 (with the problem):
total 0
drwx-wx-wx 5 home staff 170 30 Jun 17:50 Drop Box
Result of "ls -le Public" on Mac #1:
total 0
drwx-wx-wx+ 4 zome staff 136 29 Jun 21:51 Drop Box
0: user:zome allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,re adextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directory_i nherit
Result of "ls -le Public" on Mac #3:
total 0
drwx-wx-wx+ 6 yome staff 204 30 Jun 18:15 Drop Box
0: user:yome allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,re adextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directory_i nherit
I'm afraid there's something wrong on the other Macs too...?
What can I do to correct this mess?
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Drop Box folder in: user/public/Drop Box, how to delete it completely?
It might be kind of freaky, but the Drop Box folder in: user/public/Drop Box, how to delete it completely?, every time that i delete that folder and restart the system, it always appears, i just can't delete it!, why?. Absolutely, that i have already uninstalled the app with "appdelete".
The Drop Box folder in ~/Public is not part of the Dropbox application. It is in fact part of Mac OS X so you shouldn't need to delete it.
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Unable to see Shared Folder / Drop Box on wired LAN
I am unable to connect to another Mac on my wired LAN (Netgear wndr3700), and it is unable to connect to my machine. We cannot see each others’ Public Folder / Drop Box.
We can see each others Macs in the Shared section of the Finder’s sidebar, but trying to connect fails: “The server … may not exist or it is unavailable at this time…”
Both are running 10.6.4 Snow Leopard SL. No Windows machines on the LAN - so this should be AFP only.
We can see and connect to another Mac running 10.4.11 Tiger with no problem. BUT it is unable to connect to either 10.6.4 machine.
Firewall on both machines: On; File Sharing (AFP) set to “Allow incoming connections”; Stealth mode Enabled (toggling doesn’t change); “Automatically allow signed software to receive incoming connections” is Off; “Block all incoming connections” is Off. Some other apps and services are set to Block… (krb5kdc, numbed, smbd…) AppleFileServer is set to Allow.
Sharing: File Sharing Service only is On:
Hard Drive - Everyone - Read & Write
Users - Everyone - Read Only
~ (My Home Directory) - Everyone - Read Only
Public - Everyone - Read & Write
Drop Box - Everyone - Write only
Thanks for any suggestions.It isn't directly related to the firewall, I'm having the same problem between two up to date machines, and to be sure, I have disabled the firewall on both. however, If i connect using the connect to server dialogue, I get through just fine. I believe it could be a dns resolution problem.
strike that.
Just tested, check in advanced network settings, and if you have any wins servers listed, remove them.
krb5kdc needs to be allowed to accept connections, for me it popped up in little snitch when it was authenticating. -
Can't delete file from my public drop box
Files were copied to my own drop box folder at ~/public/drop box/ and when I want to delete them it says it is locked. I can't unlock because I don't have permission. If I look at the permissions I see "fetching: custom, fetching: read and write, everyone: read only". The file is also locked and I can't unlock it. I tried using terminal to "sudo chmod" or "sudo chown" but it still says I don't don't have access. "ls -l" shows -rw-------+ 1 staff. "id" shows that I am a member of staff (uid=502(andrew) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff)). OS is 10.10.1. What do I do now?
I managed to fix it. On the drop box folder itself I changed the permission for staff from write only to read & write and then applied to enclosed items.
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I have inadvertently deleted or misplaced my drop box so that I can pick up stuff I am doing on my laptop and finish it downstairs on my IMAC. I did a permission verify and fix... but I am wondering where in the branch off files where should it be placed.
A side note.. I have mobile me - but the file part is no longer there .. it's all email and then setting.. what have I don't wrong. If I put things in my "Public" folder and go on via internet I can find it that way.
running macbookpro - early 2008 (use upstairs all the time due to inability to walk)
when I get downstairs Intel IMAC where I have more hard drive to work on pics etc.Open the /Home/Public/ folder then press COMMAND-SHIFT-N to open an untitled folder. Rename it to "Drop Box" without quotes.
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Configurable Drop Box app folder location
Nice simple one - can the Dropbox app be updated so that we can choose where the apps local mirror folder is located? At the moment it seems to be fixed in the public folder (presumably as that will always exist), which works but of course it does mean that anyone who has local network access can see all the files/folders in your Dropbox account that you've got mirrored there. I'm guessing that not many people actually want that, although they may not realise it's what is currently the case. For me it would be better if by default it ends up with its own share, which could then be made either public or private with controlled access as desired.
The Drop Box folder in ~/Public is not part of the Dropbox application. It is in fact part of Mac OS X so you shouldn't need to delete it.
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Easiest Way to Share Files Between Users? -- Public, Shared, Drop Box.. .
We have five family members (and so five user accounts) using our Mac. What is the easiest way to copy files between / share files with / ... files from one user to the other?
Shared ... Public ... Drop Box ...
I do this so infrequently that I forget -- or have never figure it out properly.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks!The Shared folder is fine, but anything a user puts there will be read-only to all other users. If other users want to be able to edit such a file they can make a copy of it and edit the copy. If you want all users to be able to edit one of your files without them having to make a copy of it first, you must change the file permissions to allow that.
There are a few ways to have new files automatically set so that others can write to them. Storing such files on an external hard drive on which file/folder ownership is set to be ignored is one way. You can also use ACLs - see this page for an example. -
Please help. My DS created a document under his login on my PowerBook and now, I cannot seem to access it. He doesn't have an email account of his own, I can't seem to save it as a public document in a drop box like I can from my own login and we do not want to use iwork. Is there a way to save it so that I can access it from my login to email to his teacher. I don't want to have to retype it into Pages under my login.
Save the document from his account to an external drive or thumb drive.
Set the permissions (using Finder > Get Info) for "Everyone" to Read and Write.
Your DS will likely be the owner of the file, so you may need his login password to change the permissions.
Regards,
Barry -
Setup drop-box folder on external drive for multiple Macs
Greetings,
I have a classroom full of photography students who need to turn in 4GB folders with pictures in them so that the teacher can grade them. We've discussed various options for facilitating this, with the only feasible solution we can come up with being setting up an external 2TB MyBook and having the kids go up, plug in the firewire and xfer their folder to the drive (see requirements below for why this is the feasible solution). One snag with this is that I want to set it up so that when the drive mounts, it's mounted as a drop-box share to prevent plagiarism as well as kids deleting/messing with other kids' projects. The problem is that each computer has different profiles so when the drop-box is setup correctly on one computer, another computer is plugged in and the folders are wide open again. Since I obviously can't setup the permissions for each profile on each computer, what options do I have to set this up? I'm open to different ideas/different ways to accomplish this, but here are the requirements:
- Drop-box-like functionality. Students can basically "submit" work, but only the teacher can view the files.
- Preferably the device needs to be hardwired to the MBP using Firewire. USB is too slow and these are wireless laptops without benefit of having any ethernet jacks accessible to them. They are all connecting through an Airport Extreme and xferring 4GB files wirelessly is not an option due to class time restraints.
- This has to work across 30 laptops with multiple user profiles.
- If software is a suggestion, free and/or OSS is preferable since this problem will be mitigated next school year with implementation of iMacs and Xserves in this program.I would love how to do this as well. I actually tried moving a .mbox file out of ~/Library/Mailboxes/Mail and onto an external hard drive. Then I created an alias of the .mbox file and put it back into ~/Library/Mailboxes/Mail. No luck.
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Strange Permissions Behavior with Public/Private Drop Box
Strange Permissions Behavior with Non-Course Drop Box
In an effort to promote iTunes U on campus this semester (and to get people working with audio and video more) we're having a contest in which people can submit personal or group audio/video projects.
This being an iTunes promo, we intend for students to submit their contributions via a drop box.
To that end, I began experimenting with drop boxes in iTunes U, which I haven't done much of previously. I've created a course called "iTunes U Drop Box Test" under "Campus Events". Within that, I have two tabs: "Featured Submissions" and "Dropbox". My goal with this drop box was to allow faculty, students and college folks the ability to use the drop box ("college" being a role I've defined for those who don't fit into the faculty/student roles).
When I first started experimenting, access to the "iTunes U Drop Box Test" course looked like this:
--- Credentials (System) ---
Edit: Administrator@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
Download: Authenticated@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
Download: Unauthenticated@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
Download: All@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
--- Credentials ----
Download: College@urn:mace:lafayette.edu
Download: Instructor@urn:mace:lafayette.edu
Download: Instructor@urn:mace:lafayette.edu:classes:${IDENTIFIER}
Download: Student@urn:mace:lafayette.edu
Download: Student@urn:mace:lafayette.edu:classes:${IDENTIFIER}
For the "Featured" Submissions tab, I gave the non-system credentials the "download" right, and for the "Dropbox" tab I gave the non-system credentials the "dropbox" right.
My understanding of this setup is that everyone should have had the ability to view the course and the contents of the "Featured Submissions" tab and that those in the College/Instructor/Student roles would be able to upload files via the "Dropbox" tab ... but not see the contents of said tab after the files were uploaded (aside from any files they uploaded themselves).
This is not the behavior we saw however. While the College/Instructor/Student roles could upload files to the dropbox, everyone (including the unauthenticated public) was able to see all of the contents of the dropbox.
The only way I could get this to work as advertised was to change all of the system credentials save the "Administrator" to "No Access":
--- Credentials (System) ---
Edit: Administrator@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
No Access: Authenticated@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
No Access: Unauthenticated@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
No Access: All@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
Once I did this, everything worked as advertised: College/Instructor/Student roles could upload tracks, and the "Dropbox" tab would only display tracks they uploaded.
So my question is ... is this the correct behavior for the drop box? It looks like when the system credentials are in play, they're simply overriding whatever the normal "view" rule is for the drop box, which doesn't seem right.Your current configuration where things work as you wanted does seem correct to me. You are not using any System Credentials to accomplish the functionality and that's fine.
Here's some more info to clarify how / why this is working for you and why you had to set "No Access" for the System Credentials:
The System Credential "Authenticated@..." is going to get assigned to any user that goes through your transfer script. Even if you transfer script assigns no credentials to a user, upon entering iTunes U they will have at least 1 - the "Authenticated@..." credential. Therefore, unless you block access using "No Access", any user that passes through your transfer script is going to be able to access the area in question.
When you change values for "Unauthenticated@..." or "All@..." you are defining what someone that DOES NOT pass through your transfer script can do. You want both of those to be "No Access" at the top level of your site if you do not want unauthenticated visitors.
The distinction between "Unauthenticated" and "All" is that "All" applies to all users whether they pass through the transfer script or not.
Here's another way to remember things:
User passes through your transfer script, iTunes U automatically assigns:
Authenticated@....
All@....
User does not pass through your transfer script and instead access your iTunes U site through derivable URL*, they get assigned:
Unauthenticated@....
All@....
*The derivable URL for a site is: http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/site-domain-name
Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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