Dropbox for Windows 8 arrives missing some key features - fuentessommor

The official Dropbox app has arrived for Windows 8. IT's been close to two months since Microsoft announced at the Build developer conference that the online file storage and joint app was coming.

Dropbox for the Windows UI is almost what you'd bear from a Dropbox ambulant-style application. You can use Dropbox for Windows 8 to browse and view your files; open, edit, and save files from other Windows 8 apps; and research for files and folders using the Windows 8 research charm.

Nevertheless, you can't upload new files using the Dropbox app or the Divvy up charm privileged some other Windows 8 apps. Dropbox for Windows 8 runs on both Windows 8 and Windows RT devices. The app also supports Dropbox's two-factor certification.

The new-sprung Dropbox app adheres to the stylus of Microsoft's Windows 8 UI and lets you scroll horizontally to view your files and folders. Folders are indicated by a bold blue tile with a brochure icon and the folder name; files use a thumbnail icon, the file name, and appear in a lighter blue. Clicking connected a single file will allow you to open it in the app of your choice, although photo previews open automatically inside the Dropbox app.

Once you've clicked on a file it is saved locally on your device, only you'll stimulate to use Dropbox's app to access the file and not Windows Explorer. Since this is a Windows 8 app and not a desktop PC app, the emplacemen of Dropbox redeemed files is obscured in the AppData secret brochure. If you want file in system access to your saved files, and you'Re not happening Windows RT, download and consumption Dropbox for the traditional Windows desktop.

If you want to share files so much equally a pic or PDF using Dropbox for Windows 8, you can use the Share beguile for netmail, or Facebook direct the People app.

Aver, for example, you wanted to share a photo on Facebook. Right-click happening the file thumbnail and then select the Share charm from the pop out-out sidebar on the ripe face of the screen (for navigation tips check stunned PCWorld's "Maximize your low 30 minutes with Windows 8"). Adjacent, choose the People app (or Facebook if the option is presented to you) and you will be healthy to share straight off to Facebook.

You won't actually share the photo as a post or attachment, but as a thumbnail and a yoke to the photo on your Dropbox write u where other people can view and download the visualise.

Seeing double

An formalized Dropbox app for Windows 8 is a great addition and will be accessible for tablet users, but the app also highlights whatsoever of the problems with Windows 8's dual nature. If you have a Windows 8 laptop operating theater desktop Microcomputer, or even an x86/x64-supported tablet with a keyboard dock, you will probably rule Dropbox's desktop functionality to be more useful and Crataegus oxycantha non indigence the Windows 8 UI reading.

Using the desktop version of Dropbox, you can save up topically as many of your Dropbox files as you wish and, more importantly for PC users, keep them in painless strain using Windows Explorer. You lavatory also share your photos and files as attachments via email or uploads on Facebook using a standard Web web browser. Finally, you can upload files directly to your online Dropbox hoard with a simple puff-and-drop mathematical process.