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DESCRIPTION
DropCopy uses Apple's Bonjour technology to help you to easily and quickly share files and folders between multiple Macs across your LAN. You simply drag your files in the Finder to a drop-zone containing a list of destinations (see screenshot) and drop it on the destination of your choice. This list conveniently dissapears when one is not dragging things over it. Also supports clipboard sharing and short text messages. DropCopy is free for individual users (up to 3 machines on a network) and has a suggested shareware price of $25 for a full site license. Also works great with DropCopy mobile to transfer files to and from your iPhone.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5.3: Maintenance update, fixing a few bugs that affected individual users with special network situations. In general, however, this version is more reliable at finding and connecting to other DropCopy users across a wider range of network configurations than previous versions, and is a recommended update for all users.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Developer:10base-t interactive
Downloads:54,006
  - Version d/l:1,129
Utilities:Network
License:Free
Date:25 Apr 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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Apr 9 2009
*****

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)

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Mar 23 2008

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

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Mar 18 2008

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)

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Mar 17 2008
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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)

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Mar 18 2008

10BASE-T DEV  There are a number of resources for troubleshooting network problems on the developer site: http://10base-t.com/faq

Dropcopy uses an Apple technology, Bonjour, to match up computers, and sometimes Bonjour gets stuck, or fails to report changes in the network correctly or promptly. Check out the FAQ linked above for some suggestions!  
(Version 1.4.7)

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Mar 5 2008
****.

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)

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Mar 5 2008

10BASE-T DEV  the positioning info is not for the dropzone but for whether the list of destinations appears on the upper left, upper right, etc.

:-)  
(Version 1.4.5)

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Mar 3 2008
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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)

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Mar 5 2008

10BASE-T DEV  hmm - this is really unusual. Are you sure you are not trying to use the iPhone version by accident? That one is indeed is built for a different platform. The version linked here from versiontracker should be the correct build for both intel and PPC. Good luck!  
(Version 1.4.5)

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Feb 12 2008

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)

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Jan 6 2008

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

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Feb 11 2007
*****

HERVé 5  Excellent user interface -couldn't be simpler and easier.

Very quick reactions from the development team.

For me it's the "family transfer device" by excellence :-)  
(Version 1.3.1)

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Mar 4 2008

LONGBOY  HervĂ©, in English, we use French: _par_ excellence!  
(Version 1.4.5)

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Jan 22 2007

DORKYPANTS  Description says ver. 1.3.x requires Tiger (10.4) and to use ver. 0.5.3 for Panther (10.3). However, ver. 1.2.1 works fine on Panther (10.3.9). Is it the case that 1.3.x is merely UNSUPPORTED on Panther, or is it known definitely not to work?  
(Version 1.3.1)

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