[X-Apps] iDisk

[Scott]

On Monday, Feb 24, 2003, at 17:16 US/Pacific, hart at nasw.org wrote:

> So I'm a bit mad. I have a .Mac account. And a business associate 
> wanted to send me a 32 MB file, part of a job I'm getting paid for. 
> This is a Mac-savvy person, running OS X. I said "Just put it in my 
> public folder. He couldn't do it. I sent him iDisk utility and he 
> still couldn't access my public folder.
>
> So I got intrigued. I went to Apple's site and for the life of me I 
> can't see any way--obvious or subtle--to put a file on a .Mac user's 
> public folder. Shouldn't this be a big, bright button? What am I 
> missing here? Why should I have to set this person up as an ftp user 
> with my hosted site to get a miserable 32 MB file? Grr.

For .mac, you need to go to mac.com's help pages.  
Help-->iDisk-->Letting someone add or remove files from your Public 
folder.

And no, it shouldn't be a big bright button. If every feature people 
thought should be a big bright button was in fact a big bright  button, 
the .mac main page would look like a checkerboard.

 From the help page mentioned above (If you're using 10.2):
> To assign read-write access to your Public folder:
>
> If you're using Mac OS X version 10.2, open System Preferences and 
> click Internet. Click the iDisk tab, click the Read-Write button, then 
> click Apply Now.


-- 
Scott