Dropbox in Snow Leopard (part deux revisited)
October 9, 2009
A few weeks ago I posted an applescript that could be used in an automator-service to automativally upload a file to your public dropbox and copy the URL to your clipboard. You can find that post here)
The problem with that original applescript was that it only worked with filenames without spaces, which isn’t very handy. After a long search on how to fix this in applescript i realized that I’m quite a dumbass for not just doing it in sed. I then added three lines to the original script and proceeded insulting myself in various languages.
Dropbox in Snow Leopard (part deux)
August 30, 2009
You can do a lot of neat little things with the new automator services-template. In my last post I wrote about making a litle automation to replace a feature that wasn’t in dropbox in Snow Leopard, but you can go further. Why not make the service copy any selected file over to the dropbox public folder and then copy the public URL to the clipboard.
It’s basically the same automation as in part one, but the applescript does more:
(UPDATED)
Dropbox in Snow Leopard (part one)
August 30, 2009
For some reason Dropbox doesn’t fully work in Mac OSX 10.6. You can upload files and whatnot, but one feature I really liked, isn’t there (yet).
The feature that is still missing at this point is being able to copy the public URL of the file to the clipboard to send it through IM or in a forum, etc. Using automator’s new services-feature, you can easily make something like this on your own:
UPDATED: Doesn’t work on all filenames.
AND UPDATED AGAIN: Dropbox now fixed this issue, rendering my ‘hard work’ pointless. You can get it here.
