He will get a dialog box and will put in your email address and a note (if he likes). Then instead of choosing “share link” choose “invite to folder”. In order for you to see the files he puts in his Dropbox folder that he wants you to have access to in your Dropbox he must go to Dropbox (screenshots are from the web interface) and right click on the folder he wants to share with you. Does this make sense, and do you know how this may have happened?Ī: This issue points to the difference between sharing a link and inviting collaborators to a folder in Dropbox. I cannot access them through my own Dropbox account. However, I can only access the doc’s he shared with me via a link in the e-mail he sent me. Q: I set up my own Dropbox account, and then my boss shared some doc’s with me via Dropbox. If you have older versions of these software applications you still can modify permissions, they are just in a slightly different place. Then choose if you want to allow printing or not, and keep the default “Changes Allowed: None”. Under Permissions check “restrict editing…” and create a password (which will allow you to make changes, but not anyone else). Choose “password security” from the drop down menu and you will get this screen: In Adobe Acrobat X go to File – Properties and choose the “security” tab. In MS Word 2010 go to the “Review” tab and choose “restrict editing” and then choose “no changes (read only)” from the drop down menu, like this: You can accomplish that by restricting the original file before you make it available to clients via Dropbox.īefore sharing a MS Word file in Dropbox: So, if they download it they can edit it – if you don’t protect it first. You can send a client a link to a file – versus sharing a folder with a client – and they can view the file OR download it. Q: Can we limit a shared file with a client to “read only”?Ī: Whether providing a link to a file with a client, or sharing a folder of documents with a client, Dropbox does not offer a “read only” function. pst folders with MS Outlook (or a third party viewer).
pst because you can open a PDF with any PDF reader, whereas you can only open. Or click on the Adobe PDF tab in MS Outlook to set automatic archives for folders. Just follow the instructions on the screen and set the save location as a Dropbox folder. In the resulting drop down menu you should see the option to “convert to PDF”. In MS Outlook 2010, if you have Adobe Acrobat X Pro installed, right click on an individual email or on a folder. You can do this for all folders, or just specific folders.Īnother option is to use Adobe Acrobat Pro to save emails and/or folders to PDF and then save them to a local drive or to Dropbox.
Thanks!Ī: In MS Outlook you can set an automatic archive to save the. Q: Is it possible to use Dropbox to backup e-mail correspondence and folders, say from Outlook? I have been using Dropbox for a few months already but cannot figure out how could I achieve that. I know in Hightail (fka YouSendIt) you can set a file to expire, as well as Acrobat SendNow – both popular services to share large files. Is this common?Ī: I can’t find any way to make a file expire via a link or shared folder in Dropbox. Q: My opposing counsel sent some documents to me in (I think) Dropbox and the email notice said access would expire after 48 hours.
During the recent program “How to… Use Dropbox for File Management” ( now available for free in the archives for CBA members) I received a number of great followup questions.