DOLPHINBOY2U  I've loved and depended on this app for a couple of years now; it's an essential part of my network's wellbeing. It's simple, streamlined, and accomplishes a much-needed function. And the file transfer sound effects are great!

HOWEVER, new releases of DropCopy too often have the frustrating trait of being inaccessible via dock, menu bar or any other means. Yes, I can click-and-drag the icon around the desktop, but there's no way to access DropCopy's preferences. It is within its preferences that the checkbox exists to Hide Dock Icon.

Apparently, v1.5.8 is preselected with Dock icon hidden, so there's no way to get to its preferences to choose otherwise. I've had to revert to an archived copy of v1.5.7, because v1.5.8 is literally unusable. (I've had to skip several release versions in the last year because of this issue.)

Another irritation (though not a deal-killer like the one above) is that the download destination preference seems to frequently get "borrowed" from this setting on the other network machine, and thus if I don't catch it and reset it, the transfer says it was delivered, but in fact never arrives. But I've learned to check this setting first if files don't show up where they're supposed to.

Having said that, I still consider DropCopy crucial to management of the Macs on my network. I just wish I could give it five stars,...  
(Version 1.5.8b)

FORMICA  The COOLEST app I even installed! Seriously.  
(Version 1.5.8b)

DANA SUTTON  I use DropCopy to get around the fact that Apple's Screen Sharing has no provision for drag-and-drop transfers of files and folders. After installing it on both my Macs I can pass files back and forth with ease, and it's never given me any trouble at all.  
(Version 1.5)

ISILVER  I've got the menu bar icon in 1.4.7! And finally it can remember the dock preferences!!  
(Version 1.4.7)

GEOMAURA  As of the installation of 1.4.7 there is no menubar icon anymore ,no way to configure preferences and oddly the triangle next to the dock icon (to show the app is on) is missing even though the app is on.

Previously the app worked tolerably well.

Support has gotten back to me in a few hours.  
(Version 1.4.7)

DORKYPANTS  DropCopy 1.4.7 on my Tiger (10.4.11) MacBook can't send files to DropCopy 1.4.7 on my Leopard (10.5.2) iMac. They can see each other, but the sending DropCopy always times out unsuccessfully, and the receiving DropCopy never pops up an alert for an incoming file (which it's configured to do). Both machines have their firewalls configured to allow DropCopy connections on port 5052.

This problem first showed up between 1.4 on Tiger and 1.3 on Panther, and has continued through the minor versions of 1.4  
(Version 1.4.7)

ERIC WOEHLER  Excellent little app!

never have to worry about transferring files from mac to mac on memory sticks or external drives or CD

just install the app and you can start transferring files so easily

highly recommended, definitely worth trying if you have more than one mac and you are moving stuff around

now you dont have to open sharing or play with network settings - what a delight - file transfer the way it should be!!

only 1 little glitch - in the prefs I set the position to be bottom/right on my screen, but the app positioned itself top left... manually dragged it to where I wanted it to be, a minor bug perhaps?  
(Version 1.4.5)

RBASIL  Even though it is out of beta I'm still getting the same error as the beta gave me when trying to run it on Leopard on my Macbook Pero.

"You Can't open the application "DropCopy" because it is not supported on this architecture"  
(Version 1.4.5)

RBASIL  When trying to run the Leopard beta (available on the developers website) on my Macbook Pro I get the message.

"You Can't open the application "DropCopy" because it is not supported on this architecture"

Running Leopard 10.5.2  
(Version 1.4.3)

MOPPERMAN  Especially cool when used with iPhone!  
(Version 1.4.1)