DropCopy is simply easiest way to get things from one place to another quickly without dialogs, passwords or confirmations. Bonus: you may pass the contents of your clipboard between machines in a similarly simple fashion. What is Drop Copy? Drop Copy 4.0 is a risk management service designed to facilitate real-time monitoring of trading activity on the CME Globex platform.
- I’ve recently discovered DropCopy, from 10base-t Interactive. This little utility’s 'window' is a small translucent dark spot, rather like a hole, that sits behind all other applications (and behind your desktop Finder icons).
- DropCopy Alternatives. DropCopy is described as 'Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN by simply dragging files onto recipients in a popup window'. There are more than 10 alternatives to DropCopy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac.
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It does exactly what it's supposed to do. The resource fork problem isn't much of an issue if you're running OS X only. I've experienced a 'numb' interface only when transfering a folder with 300Mb of images. In that case the archiving takes some time.
My wife is a big fan of it. She frequently asks me why PCs don't have a 'Black Hole' and why it's so dificult to transfer files from one to the other. It's a great productivity enhancer.
I had one problem, with the panther version, trying to connect two machines. It simply wouldn't run. But also, the machines were networked together with a cross cable and would get there IP thru the internal modem. Somehow it's still hard to connect them thru the normal way.
I have been using it too to transfer files between two Macs. I have had one issue at one point. When sending an application, it would be unpackaged as a folder at the other end, but I can't replicate it right now.
Is anyone else having troubles with getting their page to load? 10base-t.com seems to just not come up at all.
Hello. I'm sure this is a nice app, but why not just enable Bonjour iChat messaging for your local network and you can just drop files onto user's names in the buddy list?
Because that would require interaction with iChat, not to mention having it running on both machines.
-rob.
I like DropCopy but can't help thinking it has more potential than is currently obvious.
It, to me, could work as a shortcut for transfers of several kinds. It currently transfers files between machines that are running it over bonjour, which is good enough. Still I'd add a few things:
1.-Set-up transfer of resource forks as a preference
2.-Set ZIP archive as a preference
3.-Display progress bars (small ones, in the circle icon itself or as growl windoids)
4.-Add ability to create new transfer types to specific places (FTP, SCP, SFTP or SMB transfers to specific servers, dropcopies to remote machines, transfer of files to other accounts in the same machine, etc.) and they show in the same list as the current Bonjour list (after a separator, if anything).
I'd love to get rid of all the aliases and shortcuts and applescripts I currently use where I can drag a file to the Xbox for viewing, or to the PVR for firmware upgrades or to the desktop of my wife's account, etc.
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How well does it deal with other EAs beyond traditional forks? Really though, it should look for named forks by default as it's part of the HFS filesystem. Every file has a fork even if it isn't used.
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Breaking my server to save yours.
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http://www.widgetschmie.de/widgets/Ubertragen/
You'll have to activate the Bonjour feature on the back of the widget. It also features ftp upload.
Developer’s description of app: Share files and apps wirelessly.
A new app out today called DropCopy by 10base-t.com (creators of Crosswalk) allows you to transfer files between iPhones or iPod Touches via wifi. It also works with Macs using DropCopy for Macs. Both devices must have DropCopy open to transfer files. Just select the file to transfer and then chose the device to send to. During the transfer both make their send and receive sounds. Here are some screenshots:
Apple iPhone School’s DropCopy Articles:
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