usefulgeek » dropbox http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog rants, reviews and kind hearted messages from some geeks Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:48:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Share list of files in DropBox Public folder http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog/2010/01/share-files-list-in-dropbox-public-folder/ http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog/2010/01/share-files-list-in-dropbox-public-folder/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:45:53 +0000 drale http://www.usefulgeek.com/blog/?p=214
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    1. Create a makefilelist.bat file with script to list all files in directory.
    2. Use Scheduled Tasks to run the .bat file Daily or Weekly, etc as needed; depending on how often you update files in DropBox Public.
    3. Share the list file with “Copy Public Link”.
    4. Open Public Link in a browser. You know have a list of all public files that is up-to-date.

    You can see an example and download the makefilelist.bat file here:
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4355901/index.html

    GitHub:
    http://github.com/drale/dropboxlistpublic/

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