Dropbox help please

blunomore

blunomore

Honorary Master
Joined
Jul 8, 2007
Messages
26,789
Reaction score
21
Location
Not yet CT ...
Someone shared an Excel file with me on dropbox and I need to amend the doc and share with them again.

I downloaded the doc from the place where they shared it, amended it and saved it to my hard drive. How do I go about sharing it with them again? In the "normal" way or is there a way in which I can replace the old doc with amended one in the place where they shared it with me?

All very new to me!
 
It depends on how it was shared. Easiest way if you're done back-and-forth'ing it would be for you to upload it to your own dropbox and then share that with them.
 
bwana said:
It depends on how it was shared. Easiest way if you're done back-and-forth'ing it would be for you to upload it to your own dropbox and then share that with them.
Click to expand...

Yeah, maybe you can just save it back to where it came from depending on how it was shared with you.
Worst case - email it back to them?
 
The best way is to tell them to get stuffed and stop making their work your work!

But if that doesn't work, and if the file is too big to e-mail back to them, then you can create your own Dropbox account.

Just go to the dropbox website, sign up and download the software and install it.
Log in to the account.
Dropbox creates a folder in your hard drive that synchronizes with the cloud.
You just have to put the file in your folder on your hard drive and it will be uploaded to the DropBox servers.
To share it back with the other person, open windows explorer and go to your dropbox folder.
right click on the file you pasted there and look for the setting that says "get share link" or something like that.
Paste that link into an e-mail and send it to them.
 
Dropbox account is free and incredibly useful to have so take the trouble to set one up...
 
Just create an empty folder in dropbox for you both to share... Right click folder --> view on dropbox.com then (after logging in to dropbox in the popup browser window), click the share folder icon (folder with the rainbow) and enter their email address to share the entire folder with them. Any files you add or edit directly in the folder will update on their end and vice versa. NB click the 'view on dropbox.com' link... NOT 'share this folder' which is a windows thing (not dropbox). All this is done in windows explorer with the dropbox client running.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I don't know why people don't use Google Drive. Much better and much simpler to use. No app required.

If you have a Gmail account, you already have Google Drive. 15GB of free storage.

drive.google.com
 
I've got 50gig dbox account and never paid a cent.
Gary has summed it up for you.
 
Save your keystrokes. I think the OP has lost all interest in her thread.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X