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!

Dropbox: It’s Cloud Storage

Dropbox is a free service that allows you to put files up on the Internet (“the cloud”) and lets you access them from your computer(s), smartphone(s), tablet(s), and other devices. You can even share these files with friends. Dropbox has a terrific tour to tell you what it is and what it does. Take the Dropbox tour. It has cute illustrations and will take you less than 5 minutes.

Perhaps its greatest trick is that when you take a picture on your phone or your tablet, it automagically* uploads it to the Dropbox cloud, then down to any of your devices. So that picture you took of your dog/the sunset/that sale item/yourself automagically* gets to your computer without you connecting any cables. Awesome!