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How to Use Dropbox
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Open your browser
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Type in Dropbox.com
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When you arrive at
Dropbox. Com
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This is what you will see…
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Click sign-up
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Then fill this one up
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Enter your name
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Your last name /surname
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And your email address
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And a password
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Remember: Use a strong
password
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This will ensure the security
of your Dropbox
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Don’t forget to click this box
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Then click Sign up
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If your registration is
successful
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You will be directed to
Web Interface of your
Dropbox
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It looks something like this
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Now here’s how to share
files
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Click “Share a folder” button
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You will be asked if you
want to create
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Or share an existing folder
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If you want to create a
new folder
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Choose the first one
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Then click “Next”
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Give your folder a name
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Then click “next”
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You will see a page with
two text fields
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The top field
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Is where you put the email
address
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of the person you want to
share your folder with
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The bottom field
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is for an optional message
to the person
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Fill out the text field
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Then click “Share folder”
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You have successfully
created and shared a
folder!
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Here it is
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It’s now time to upload
some files in your folder
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How to load files?
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There are two ways on
how to do it
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Click the folder
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You will see this
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Click “Upload”
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Then click “Choose files”
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Highlight the files that you
wish to copy
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Then click “Open”
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Then wait
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till everything gets
uploaded
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Don’t worry
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It won’t take too long
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You’ll know when it has
finished uploading
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When they’ve looked like
this already
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Click “Done”
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Then you will be able to
see the files
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in the shared folder
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Another way of loading file
to your folder
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Is to use the Drag and
Drop Method
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Here’s how to do it
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While your dropbox is
open, click the start menu
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Then locate the files
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that you want to upload
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Drag and drop the file to
dropbox
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This will show that the files
are uploading
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Once uploading is finished,
you will see a check mark
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That means your files are
synced
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You can also share files
using Dropbox’s desktop
application
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To download it, go back to
dropbox.com’s homepage
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and click “download”
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Then it will start uploading
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Click the installer
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Click “Run”
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To download dropbox
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After the downloading
and installing
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A menu will pop up
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Enter your e-mail address
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and your password
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Then click sign in
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There will be a message
that will inform you
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That you have succefully
installed dropbox
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Click “Open my Dropbox
folder”
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It is going to create a
folder on your desktop
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To transfer files to your
dropbox
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You can just drag and
drop a file
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Just like you did earlier
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Or you can also copy
paste
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from one folder to your
dropbox folder
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Here’s how to do it
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Click the folder on your
desktop
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Where the file you want to
transfer is located
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Right click on the file
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Click “Copy”
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Then right click on your
dropbox folder
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Then click “Paste”
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There goes the file you
transferred
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Easy right?
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So go ahead and don’t be
afraid
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that you will lose important
files on your desktop
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Because you have one big
back up to help you
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