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Daily Trick 24. Share Data with Drop Box

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In order to send files to the other Mac on the same local network, usually we will utilize a public folder and create a drop box inside. Drop Box is a folder where other users can drop files into it, but they can't see the content inside.

The drop box creation is simple and straightforward:

  1. Open Finder and go to Home Directory
  2. Search & open your Public folder
  3. Create a new "Drop Box" folder
  4. Open its Get Info pane (Cmd-I)
  5. Under Sharing & Permissions section, change privileges for other users into Write only (Drop Box)

However, you also need to turn on your File Sharing so that other users on the local network can access to your Public Folder.

You can go inside System Preferences → Sharing to turn on your File Sharing. Now, you should be able to share files easily on the local network.

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scottb 

If you want to do some real magic with Dropbox, get yourself 1Password from Agile.
If you have multiple Macs, you can shafre your 1P keychain across many Macs and not have to remember all your passwords when you're on another machine.
Absolutely brilliant if you have to use more than one Mac.
Of course you can share lots of great things, but I've been using DB for a while and it's a killer app - esp for free!

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