Unfortunately-and this is my one significant complaint about DropCopy-you can’t show both: If you’ve got two users on the same machine running Drop Copy, you’ll want to show users, but if you’ve got multiple computers containing the same user name, you won’t know to which computer you’ll be sending.
You can also choose whether to display user names or computer names as targets in the drop zone. If you’re on public network, DropCopy’s preferences dialog allows you to disable the option to automatically receive files (so malicious users can’t fill up your hard drive with huge, unwanted files).
#DROPCOPY FOR MAC MAC OS#
The only hiccup is that if you’ve enabled Mac OS X’s firewall, you may need to configure the firewall so that it allows DropCopy traffic through the company That’s all there is to it-no network browsing, no Connect to Server, no usernames and passwords. (If you’ve enabled DropCopy’s menu bar icon, the icon also indicates copy progress.) When the copy is finished, DropCopy notifies you with both text and audio (the screenshot on the right).
#DROPCOPY FOR MAC MAC OS X#
(If you drop a folder of files-or a Mac OS X package, which is actually a directory-DropCopy will create an archive of those files before sending the archive will be automatically expanded by DropCopy on the receiving computer.)Īs files are copied, DropCopy’s drop zone pulses and you see the percentage of the copy that has completed (the screenshot on the left). The file will be copied to the other computer and will immediately appear wherever that computer’s owner has decided that incoming files should reside. When you want to copy a file to another computer, simply drag the file into the drop zone, and then onto the name of the preferred destination (either a computer name or a user name, depending on your preferences). (If you want to copy files to a computer running DropCopy that’s not on your local network, you can manually add that computer as a destination by providing its IP address.) If any destinations are found, a small, translucent circle-I call it a drop zone, and there’s a screenshot of it on the right-appears on your Desktop you can move this drop zone to wherever you prefer. When running, DropCopy looks for other copies of DropCopy running on your local network it calls these destinations.
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