[nabs-l] A Few Dropbox Questions

Chris Nusbaum cnusbaumnfb at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 17:54:27 UTC 2016 

Kaiti:

I've never encountered any inaccessible captchas when signing into Dropbox
on any of my devices, and I have installed the app on quite a few machines
due to my almost-constant use of Dropbox. To answer your Braille Sense
question, however, the Dropbox feature is very convenient. All I needed to
do was sign into my Dropbox account by following the prompts on my Braille
Sense. Once I was signed in, all my files and folders appeared as they would
be displayed normally in File Manager. The only down side I've found in this
feature is that, unlike Windows, you can't open and edit a file directly
from Dropbox. Rather, you have to download the file and save it to the
Braille Sense's internal flash disk. So, it takes a few extra steps, but I
think this is a small price to pay for the convenience of Dropbox on a
Braille notetaker.

Hope this helps,

Chris

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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Few Dropbox Questions

Side note, I really am interested to play around with dropbox on the
BrailleSense.  I do a ton of my work and communicating through my phone and
laptop so I've never had the need to use my BrailleSense for dropbox, but
now I'm curious to see how Hims worked around the visual captia that may or
may not be there for some people now.  I know I have a software update patch
to install tomorrow so that will be fun to play with.

Glad to hear you were able to find a solution.

On 7/12/16, Julie McGinnity via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I logged into dropbox from a new computer just the other day, and 
> there was no visual capcha to be seen.  :)  The buttons could have 
> been unlabeled though...  I don't think they were, however, I did 
> notice a lot of unlabeled links and things on the website.  No Dropbox 
> app for the Braille Note though.
>
>
> On 7/12/16, Karl Martin Adam via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> I think once you do it once your computer is registered so you don't 
>> have to again, but with the Apex you can't do it the first time, 
>> so...
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Vejas Vasiliauskas via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing 
>> list<nabs-l at nfbnet.org Date sent: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:20:43 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Few Dropbox Questions
>>
>> That's interesting that there's a capcha to sign in every time.
>> It wasn't very obvious.  My issue was that the sign-in button just 
>> wouldn't work, the bt sign would just stay there, it wouldn't click.
>> Thanks.
>> Vejas
>>
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Karl Martin Adam via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing 
>> list<nabs-l at nfbnet.org Date sent: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 18:44:36 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Few Dropbox Questions
>>
>> The problem with Dropbox and the Apex is actually dropboxes fault.  
>> You need to do a visual capcha to sign into Dropbox with a computer, 
>> and the Apex can't do that.  So I had the Dropbox app on my phone, 
>> which is accessible, and would e-mail myself files from my Apex and 
>> use my phone to upload them.  The Apex can actually download files 
>> from Dropbox if you have a link just not sign in to your account.  SO 
>> I would do the share file by e-mail and then open the e-mail on my 
>> Apex and use the link to download the file.  This is all as of a bit 
>> over a year ago the last time I messed with Dropbox, so things might 
>> have changed by now.
>>
>> Best,
>> Karl
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Kaiti Shelton via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org Date sent: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:44:34 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A Few Dropbox Questions
>>
>> I suppose if you really wanted to access your dropbox folder with the 
>> Apex you could connect the two through bluetooth, but that's the best 
>> possible solution I can think of.  You could still transfer files 
>> from the Apex to dropbox, but you might have to do it in a convoluted 
>> way like emailing it to the account on your IPhone and then saving it 
>> to dropbox once your bluetooth connection is turned on.  Hopefully, 
>> although it is not ideal, that is a potential fix for you.
>>
>> On 7/10/16, Katie Wang via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>  Hi Vejas,
>>
>>  Unfortunately, the Apex does not work with Dropbox.  Braille Sense  
>> should support Dropbox though, and so will the note-takers we have  
>> been discussing on the other thread.
>>
>>  Katie
>>
>>
>>  On 7/9/16, Kaiti Shelton via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>  Hi, Vejas,
>>
>>  I believe swiping up/down with one finger on the item you're trying 
>> to  delete should give you that option, just like when you're 
>> deleting an  email or something else.  Sorry I can't answer your 
>> question about the  Apex as I'm a Sense user, but I hope this solves 
>> the IPhone half of  the issue for you.
>>
>>  On 7/9/16, Vejas Vasiliauskas via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> wrote:
>>  Hi All,
>>  I had a few questions about Dropbox.
>>  Firstly, I would like to know how you can delete folders and  files 
>> on the IPhone app.  I found a more actions menu, which  gives the 
>> option of creating another folder, but could not find a  way to 
>> delete anything.
>>  I would also like to know, for these of you who are Braille note  
>> Apex users, have you had any luck with Dropbox?
>>  Thanks,
>>  Vejas
>>
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