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mike160304
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8 years ago

Re: Can Dropbox/Paper enable me to process .txt files on my iPhone?

Rich - OK, your comment "Dropbox is just a folder on your computer like any other"  has helped me to understand how it all works.

 

So, in the Dropbox Folder, I am now creating a mini-folder-tree containing only the files that I want to access when I am "on the road", for access from my iPhone.  It may still be an option to have file shortcuts in their "proper locations"

 

In theory one could, I guess, move the whole Windows folder tree (Docoments/ Pictures/ Videos/ Music) into the Dropbox Folder.

 

But Dropbox offers the weird restricted option of paying nothing for up to 2GB storage or money for up to 1TB storage.  2GB handles a lot of .txt files and maybe a good number of Word files, but it is presumably intended to be useless for RAW or JPEG image files. 

 

So I am now investigating how to have (if possible?) a mirror image of my PC's Pictures folders tree in Google Photos, where storage of RAW and JPEG files is unlimited and free, albeit with some automatic adjustment of file sizes by Google Photos - but the size adjustment is very clever, as image quality appears to be maintained by some kind of Google magic.

 

I very much appreciate your help with this, and your further comments would be very welcome.  Somehow, totorials rarely seem to be talking about things that I want to do . . . .:slight_smile:

 

Mike

 

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