How I Use Dropbox - Sharing Folders of Large Files

Sometimes you'll want to share a folder full of files all at once.  This is a feature that I just learned (thanks Robb) that I am finding very handy.

So let's say I wanted to share my jazz trio EP with someone.  I can't email a whole folder full of WAV files.  It's way too big.  Here is how you do it (this is for mac users, not sure how to do this on PC).

Going off of yesterday's post, create a folder in your Dropbox "Public folder" of the files that you want to share.

Then right click (PC)/control click (mac) on the folder that you want to share and choose, "Compress".

This will create a ".zip" file of all that information directly below the original folder.  Don't worry about what "zip" specifically means, other than it compresses this information in a way that allows you to easily share it.  Now that you have this ".zip" file in your Public folder of Dropbox you can simply right click (PC)/control click (mac) on that ".zip" file and "Copy Public Link" and paste that link in an email, text, IM, etc.

Questions?  Let me know.  This is one of the ways that I am going to use Dropbox quite a bit in the future.  Very handy and not bad for a free service.

**For the first five people who download and install Dropbox using this link, I will give you a free download of my jazz trio EP, Songs in a Minor Key.**