[Lowfer] DropBox

[Douglas D. Williams]

Hi John. It's been a long time since I last installed Dropox, so my memory
of the process may be fuzzy. Also, I don't password protect my home desktop
since I'm the only one who ever touches it.

What I can tell you is that any files that you store in Dropbox folders are
also stored on your local drive, so yes, Dropbox would need permission to
write to your disk. You can turn this off, IIRC, but I seldom/never do
since I have a 2 terrabyte HD and it's only about 1/10 full. Having the
files stored on you local drive makes for faster access.

I also have Dropbox installed on my smart phone. One reason for this is
that whenever I take a picture with my phone camera, if I want to save it I
semply send it on to a dropbox folder and when I get home the picture is
already on my home computer.

Hope this helps.

-Doug

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:55 AM, John Bruce McCreath <weazle at hurontel.on.ca>
wrote:

> I thought I'd give DropBox a try on my iMac so downloaded the installer
> program.
> When it got to the point where it asked for my computer's password so it
> could
> write to my disk, alarm bells went off in my head.  Is this normal?  I'm
> not about
> to open up my computer to some online program without knowing the facts.
>
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