[Lowfer] Lowfer Captures

[Graham]

Dropbox works very well as a convenient place to put screen grabs etc.

Once you have Dropbox installed and it's default folder created, i.e. 
\dropbox\photos you can easily create additonal folders within such as 
\dropbox\photos\lowfer in which you can create additional folders and so 
on.

You can then post a link to one of your dropbox folders or sub folders 
or a specific file. For example, I have started to take a more serious 
interest in listening for the various lowfers and I have created on 
dropbox called lowfer within my photos folder.  This link takes you there:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0ltkw1tumnl9mhh/AAADShMBDHx457zDNBeLPh3_a?dl=0

When you log into dropbox and view your photos folder you will see 
whatever files and folders you have. If you put your cursor over a photo 
or folder it will "highlight" and on the right side you will see 
"Share"  If you click on "Share" you will be given two opens one of 
which is to "Send Link". Click on "Send Link" and a pop up will display 
a url to that file of folder which you can copy and paste in an email or 
your web browser and it in turn will take you directly to that file of 
folder. That is how I got the above noted url for my dropbox lowfer folder.

If you view my dropbox lowfer folder you will see a subfolder called 
archive which is were I will be archiving grabs of interest. You can 
open that folder and view what it contains. At this post it contains 
only one screen grab for MP.

This is the url which would take you directly to the archive folder:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0ltkw1tumnl9mhh/AACTk9eXA6bK_rLIT5pHU7DSa/archive?dl=0


and this is the url which would take you directly to the MP screen grab:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0ltkw1tumnl9mhh/AACTk9eXA6bK_rLIT5pHU7DSa/archive?dl=0#lh:null-MP_137_7844_20141112_1817.jpg

You can also place any other file type you like in your folders even 
though it may start out in a folder with a name like photos. In fact, 
your dropbox folder is just the root of your folder structure, you 
create additional folders there as well, for example \dropbox\text or 
\dropbox\documents. It is really just folder like any other except that 
it is shared over the net on a remote server.

Now, it gets even better. If you have for example two or more computers, 
you can install dropbox on all of them and Dropbox will synchronize your 
entire dropbox folder on all of your computers. Add a file on one 
computer, it  will get put on your other computer(s). Create a new 
folder, it will get created on your other computers(s). Delete a file on 
one computer and it will get deleted on your other computer(s). Only you 
can edit (create/delete) files and folders on your dropbox account. 
Others viewing your folders and files on the net are read only.

Sorry for being long winded. I hope that all makes sense.

Oh, and dropbox is not the only such service, there are others. It just 
happens that I have been using dropbox for some time and quite like the 
way it works. There is even a version for use with Linux if you prefer 
that platform.

cheers, Graham ve3gtc


On 2014-11-12 11:28, Douglas D. Williams wrote:
> You're welcome, Tom. Just put the screen capture jpegs in the "Public"
> dropbox folder. Right click on the image you want to share and choose
> "share public link" from the menu (this is all from memory, I'm at work).
> Then paste that into the body of the message here on this discussion forum.
>
> D.
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:52 AM, n8tl <n8tl at woh.rr.com> wrote:
>