Drop box/ public

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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The tiny unknown user icon in the Get Info dialog has a question mark on it. Is "(unknown)" showing up in the Name column of Get Info for your Drop Box?
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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.
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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?

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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.

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:
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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@....
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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.

No Drop Box in Several users public folders

Hi All,
I'm running a largely mac based school network with 2 Xserves, One Snow Leopard Server and one Leopard Server which handles all the file sharing.
Several Users have come to me lately (About 6 I know of, out of approx 900) with no dropbox in their public folders. They had one previously but they seem to have disappeared. THe users with the disappearing drop boxes are all hosted on the Snow Leopard Server. And access their files with either Mac OS X Leopard, Windows XP, or windows 7.
My question is, is there a way to restore their drop boxes (I know I can go in as Root and do it, but im not sure if there are special settings etc on the drop box that wouldnt be applied if I did it manually)
Also if anyone knows what could cause the dropboxes to disappear that would be useful so I can prevent it in the future
Thanks in Advance
Timethyfx

Snap And like you said, I have both machines set up with exactly the same settings. Another bug or something I'm doing wrong? Please reply if you figure out the solution.

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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?
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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?
Thanks again!

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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I do this so infrequently that I forget -- or have never figure it out properly.
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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.
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strike that.
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krb5kdc needs to be allowed to accept connections, for me it popped up in little snitch when it was authenticating.

Sharing Problems---dropping files in "drop box" renders them locked

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I have a few macs on my home network and often share files between them. I sometimes use my iPod but since it's getting full, I also just connect to the other machines (file sharing is on) and drop it in the public>drop box folder.
I hadn't done this in a while, but I've definitely noticed this after the 10.4.4 update (can't say one way or another of 10.4.3 gave me troubles or not), certain folders that I drop into another machine's drop box say that I do not have the correct permissions to open them. Sometimes they have the "no read/no write" folder icon on them, othertimes they have a "blue arrow" write only icon on them...on the file's native machine, they have all permissions allowed. I noticed that if i get info on such a folder to view permissions, it says the owner is "nobody" and that it is locked-- I can unlock them using my admin password, which is fine because then i can use the files... but I'd rather not have to go through every single shared folder and unlock them individually just to open a few files.

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
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Silly drop box question...

All the years, I've been using a mac, and I have not figured this out still, and today was the last straw on figuring it out. (thxs for the rant!)
Scenario : 2 macs in my home office, use dropbox in public folder to transfer files between 2 macs.
I presently have to use guest when dropping files to the other mac, which in turn states" You can put items into dropbox but you won't be able to see them."
Which works fine, but sometimes I want to see what's in the other drop box without having to go to the other computer.
However, If I click the " Connect as " button, it gives me a option as a guest, Which I am already doing and can not see when I drop files, or gives me a option as registered user, which is what I want to be.
For the life of me I can't figure this out. I have the name of the machine that wants to connect to the other machine, however no password. It's not the password that the mac uses as a default sign in password. It is also not "public."
Does the Password have to be assigned somewhere on each machine?
I've been in file sharing looking around and playing, but with no luck.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
AJ

This page walks you through the entire process - I know you've already done some of this, but if you walk it through you may find a point at which either you've missed something or something is not working as it should.
http://homepage.mac.com/rfwilmut/notes/sharing.html

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