Automatically add files to Dropbox
Reader Daniel Gilbert seeks to make better use of Dropbox. He writes:
Because I travel fairly often, I’m trying to make my Mac’s important documents available to me regardless of where I am. And I think I’ve settled on Dropbox being the way to do that. The problem is that I often forget to save these files to my Dropbox folder. Can you suggest any ways to make saving files to Dropbox easier?
I’d be happy to. Let’s start with files from the Finder.
Launch Automator and in the workflow template chooser that appears select Service and click Choose. Configure the top of the workflow to read Service receives no input in any application. From Automator’s Library pane choose Files & Folders and then drag the Get Selected Finder Items and Copy Finder Items actions into the workflow area. Open your Dropbox folder (found, by default, in your user folder), and create a folder for your important files (Important Files, seems like an appropriate name). Drag this folder to the Copy Finder Items action. Now choose File > Save, name the workflow something like Copy To Dropbox, and click the Save button.
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