Thing 17

Cloud Sharing & File Storage

When I first started grasping this cloud-storage thing a few years ago, I installed Dropbox on my computer because it drove me crazy to have stuff on the network here at the library that I couldn't access at home or if I was visiting a school. But Peter told me recently that that was slowing my computer way down when I would log in and out of workstations. My Dropbox account is maxed out with wedding pictures, and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to just MOVE them someplace else--now that I use Google Drive so much, I just want them put in Google Photos and be done with it, but I will have to figure that out at home. 

Anyway, I read the PC review of Box, and since that was their go-to file sharing app for Android, I decided to download that on my phone. Then I uploaded a file (a photo of my dog, surprise). Then I shared the file through email (to myself, because I don't want to drive people crazy sending photos of my dog to them). The only problem is finding files to upload! There were only 4 files that showed up--two photos, a PDF whose name I don't recognize, and an .acsm file, whatever that is. Plus there is no thumbnail attached to these files, so I can't tell what the PDF or .acsm file is before uploading it. 

I'm feeling pretty dumb with my inability to figure out how to make either Dropbox or Box useful. I will just have to spend more time (a lot more than the expected 30 minutes) playing around with them.