Sharing Dropbox Files with Others

Step 6 (the last one!) in Learning About Dropbox.

In the last step, you set up your Android devices and learned that you can take a picture on one mobile device and see it on the others as well as your computer AND the cloud. You also know that you can copy any files you’d like from your computer to the Dropbox folder. Yes, you can create other folders in the Dropbox and they’ll sync through the cloud and to your other devices. So yes, you can put a folder full of snow pictures, another of graduation pictures, another of weird, random things you snapped while out shopping.

What’s next? Making sure that you can share the files with others, of course!

Setting up your Android Devices for Dropbox

Step 5 in Learning about Dropbox

In the last step, you configured one of your computer’s folders to synchronize with the cloud. In this step, you’ll configure your Android device (smartphone, tablet, etc.) to do the same. You’ll need to do this once for EACH Android device. It’s an easy process:

Your Computer’s Dropbox Folder

Step 4 in Learning About Dropbox

In the last step, we viewed our new cloud storage using our browser on our computer. Now here comes the cool part: you can configure your computer to have a Dropbox folder, just like any other folder on your computer (like Photos, Documents, etc.). The cool part is that any files you put in this folder will synchronize with your Dropbox on the Cloud.

Configuring the Dropbox “Cloud” – AKA Using your Browser

Step 3 in Learning About Dropbox

In the last step, you created your Dropbox account (or found your existing one). Now we’ll login to that account.