The settings I had chosen for my Public folder might allow anyone to upload/download/delete files from that folder ! ! ! I have changed it now to password-protected. I do not have my photos stored there.



mobileme Apple instructions/use

You guys might want to review the Public Folder use in the above link. Several people here have some protection on their public sites, some have none, some are Passworded.

If someone posts a picture from their un-pasworded Public folder and you choose to view picture in another window, in that url you can remove "picturename.jpg" from the url, and then reload the window and you will see all the files in that persons Public folder. Then it is possible to have your way while in there -- DEPENDING on the level of security chosen by the owner of that site.

My photo above is of mobile me in my System Prefs panel.


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I may be dead wrong (hope I'm not!) but unless you check the "Allow visitors to make changes" box, you won't have the problem you're describing, Ethel. Reboot will know better, naturally.

Yes, someone can see all of your files, but as long as you don't have Allow visitors to make changes checked they can't do anything but download the files. It is called a Public folder so you prorbably wouldn't want to put any nekkid stuff in there or anything.

We can still post pictures from there with the url http://idisk.me.com/username/Public/filename unless you Password protect the folder.

I don't know what's going on now, ImageWell is working again too. It seems that maybe Apple is now redirecting idisk.mac.com to idisk.me.com.

Hope I wasn't speaking Russian again.

http://idisk.me.com/username/Pictures/filename works too, and ImageWell also works going to the Pictures folder.

Edit - Oops, it asks for a log in if you use Pictures.

It's frustrating the inconsistency of it for something they charge for.

That's why I decided not to use the Public folder for images.
I use it for clients and stuff, and the last thing I wanted them to see are all the embarrassing avatars I've created for AppleCentral

So I didn't have to move anything? So just change the URL?
So simple only a child can do it?

My MobileMe renewal is up in a month. I'm really going to have to decide if it's worth it.

BTW, Amazon has it on sale for $58.55.
Buy a dozen and give them out as gifts to friends or family you'd like to torture.

I edited my post, it seem Pictures now requires a log in to display any files, not just the Public password but your full MM log in.

LOL.

Just noticed that Cy winks. At least I hope it's supposed to because it is on this end.

Thanks for emphasizing "Allow visitors to make changes checked" because I know I had that for my son-in-law and his brother cause they were working on a certain file together.

As someone else pointed out, folks with businesses using Public to view graphic or text files might not want them read by just any doofer who drops by, forum graphics might go someplace else.

Maybe you should explain things to me in Pig Latin. I'm fluent.

ImageWell, Comcast and me are doing such a fun job I'm not going back to uploading pictures from iDisk or macme, etc. Besides, I think I screwed up that capability mucking around with all the settings in IW yesterday. [sigh][ I make things so difficult for myself. ]




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