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Dropbox for local and shared folders

Dropbox for local and shared folders

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Dropbox for local and shared folders

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- [Instructor] Let's take a closer look at each of these cloud services in particular. First, we'll start out with Dropbox. How do you use Dropbox to effect file sharing and live access and collaboration with your team? Well, first of all, everybody has to create a Dropbox account at dropbox.com. They need to install the Dropbox software. Somebody needs to share a subfolder with other members, and put all your files into that subfolder, and work out of that subfolder. So let's go through these steps. I'm going to jump over to my Finder, where I have Dropbox already installed. And this is when you install it on a Mac, it adds a shortcut right here in the Finder. The Dropbox folder itself is inside your Home folder. So here, it's inside my amarie folder. And I've created a folder in Dropbox, just by creating a new folder called AcmePub Production. This is the folder that I want to share with other users, and it has a Word…

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