Dropbox, the most popular online / desktop backup tool for Mac, just got a brand new feature: all your files in your Dropbox can be shared, not just those saved in the Public folder.
You just have to right click on a file or folder int he desktop or web view and select “Get shareable link”; this will redirect you to a web page with a short link for that file or folder. This is a long-awaited feature, which has made sharing file with Dropbox a lot easier. Good job.
From Dropbox’s support forums:
- This will only work with Dropbox clients 0.8 or higher and the feature is currently in beta. You’ll have to restart your client to enable the feature. You can get it here
- All your links are viewable from the ‘Linked Items’ tab on you Sharing page. You can even make shared folder links, which will be viewable from both tabs.
- The public folder will still work as it always has.
- The music player will keep autoplaying until it runs out of stuff to play. It’s pretty handy to set it and forget it ;) (In the future: more controls for the media players)
- Office files, pdfs, code files, etc. are all displayed using custom viewers (or scribd, when appropriate)
- My current favorite sharing model trick: selective sync my entire music library, and still be able to play all my music via sharing model from my laptop
- On the horizon: password protection and expiration, other cool stuff
