Apple, the helpful company.<br>Sound but no pictures.<br><br><br>I have a large Photoshop picture file, zip compressed, that I'd like to use my iDisk storage (Public folder?) with so someone can download it. I only want them to see, and have access to, just this one file and nothing else. Can I do that?<br><br>
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#248907 - 09/25/0511:27 AMRe: iDisk...need help
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MikeSellers
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Sure you can. Create a folder within the "Sites" folder and dropped the zipped file in there. Then send them the URL http://homepage.mac.com/yourname/folder/Photshopfile.zip and the file will start downloading when they open the link in a browser. <br><br>
#248909 - 09/25/0506:48 PMRe: iDisk...need help
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MacBozo
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That will work. However, if they know what they are doing, there is nothing to keep them from going up your directory and then gaining access to your Public folder.<br><br>
Hmmm. I tried doing that with a test file and it didn't work. The zip file, rather than downloading, showed in the browser as code.<br><br>Hmmm again. Tried it again using DropZip for compression, instead of Apple's "Create Archive of...", and it worked. <br><br><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by drjohn on 09/26/05 00:20 AM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>
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#248911 - 09/25/0509:50 PMRe: iDisk...need help
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MikeSellers
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That's weird. I tried it with an Apple zipped file and a Stuffit zipped file and both downloaded.<br><br>Did the first file totally upload to your iDisk before you tried downloading it? Uploading to iDisk can be so slow it may not have finished.<br><br>
Screenshots of iDisk in Goliath. <br><br><br>Weird. The same picture file was zipped 2 different ways. The top pic shows the results of using DropZip, it shows as a application/zip and it works for downloading.<br><br>The other pic shows the results of using "Create Archive of..." to zip the file. It shows as a text file and doesn't work.<br><br>
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Only tried it with Firefox. I use Goliath for transfering the file to my iDisk and that's what the pictures are from. The file shows up as 2 different things, depending on which process I zipped it with. Why would the browser make a difference?<br><br>
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<br>Sound but no pictures.<br>
<br><br>I have a large Photoshop picture file, zip compressed, that I'd like to use my iDisk storage (Public folder?) with so someone can download it. I only want them to see, and have access to, just this one file and nothing else. Can I do that?<br><br>
<br><br>Weird. The same picture file was zipped 2 different ways. The top pic shows the results of using DropZip, it shows as a application/zip and it works for downloading.<br><br>The other pic shows the results of using "Create Archive of..." to zip the file. It shows as a text file and doesn't work.<br><br>
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