[nfbcs] question about email and drop box

[Louis Maher]

Hello,

Another thing that might make life easier  is to display your e-mail message
with the internet browser, select the link with a tab key, hit the context
key (right mouse button) and hit the save target as option.

If you have an html e-mail, and you are using the JAWS laptop keyboard, the
display message in the html browser is insert+capslock+shift.

desktop keyboard, you call up the html browser by save the file as a target.


Regards
Louis Maher
713-444-7838
ljmaher at swbell.net
http://www.nfbtx.org/localchapters/houston  


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 8:07 PM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] question about email and drop box

Jim,

The short answer to your question is that a file on Dropbox should download
exactly as does a file that you would download from another web site.  There
is probably something wrong with the link.  Make sure it is not split on two
lines, for example.  You may have to cut and paste the link into the "run"
dialog or into the "Open" dialog of your web browser putting both lines
together on a single line.  The type of file, audio, text, or picture,
should not affect how you download it.

To answer your question about dropbox, it is a way to store files and have
multiple computers synchronized, all having the same versions of the files
you place into a Dropbox folder.  This happens without going to the web.  As
a side-benefit to this, one can create links that can provide someone who is
not a Dropbox user to download the files as was done for you.  One can also
share folders with other users.  If I copy a file into my dropbox folder at
home, the file will show up on my work computer when I next turn it on.  If
I copy a file into a shared folder within my Dropbox folder, the file will
automatically show up on the computer of the person with whom I shared the
folder.  Again, what you are doing is different, you are just downloading,
but you asked what Dropbox is which is why I am giving you these irrelevant
details.  <smile>  Finally, one can access their own files directly from the
Dropbox web site as well without installing the Dropbox software.  There are
free accounts that give you a couple gigs of space or more, and you get
additional space for anyone you get to sign up.  However, there is a paid
subscription that gives you a hundred gigs.  Since the files are stored on a
server as a way to synchronize your computers, this also functions as a
backup and is really a cloud.  You can even get access to some of your files
on a cellphone.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson


On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:50:03 -0700, Jim Portillo wrote:

>Howdy,

> 

>I hope I can explain this well.

> 

>A friend of mine sent me an email with some links that are pictures 
>he'd like me to have.  They are links on his dropbox folder.  He says I 
>can download the pictures and save them to my computer.

>First, I don't really know what Dropbox is, but I'm willing to download 
>if necessary.  Is it useable with JAWS, and is it easy to use and manage?
>Please explain in a clear way because I know nothing about this.

> 

>Second, when I click (hit enter) on each link, I'm told that the file 
>or link cannot be found.  Perhaps because they're pictures, I just need 
>to somehow select the link and save them, but again, I'm kind of lost here.

>Any suggestions on how I can do this?  These are important pictures 
>that I'd like to have.

> 

>Jim

> 

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