![]() If a 1000 people read this post and stop using Dropbox because of it, it’s not going to make much difference to Dropbox. One: the bigger the name, the less effect customer dissatisfaction has. After all, they’re a big name company who wouldn’t want to upset their customers, right? As anyone can readily see, what that allows is GUI control just as if the program or script was clicking buttons and menu items.īut perhaps you implicitly trust Dropbox to not do anything untoward. Accessibility frameworks were first introduced in Mac OS X 10.2 and expanded in 10.3 to allow control of user interface items via System Events and the Processes suite. Interlude: Contrary to Dropbox’s completely spurious “explanation”/obfuscation here, Accessibility has nothing at all to do with granting permissions to files. There’s a reason why apps in that list have to ask for permission and why it takes a password and explicit user permission to get in there: it’s a security risk. What does ‘take control’ mean here? It means to literally do what you can do in the desktop: click buttons, menus, launch apps, delete files…. ![]() It matters first and foremost because Dropbox didn’t ask for permission to take control of your computer. There’s at least three reasons why it matters. First, why does it matter, and second, is there any way to keep using Dropbox but stop it having access to control your computer? On the target computer, double-click the zip file to expand it, then double-click the resulting "tyset" file to re-import the set in Typinator.That leaves a couple of questions. Transfer that file to the target computer. To make sure that the internal folder structure remains intact, we recommend that you compress the set with the File>Compress command in the Finder. Typinator sets appear as files with the extension "tyset", but they are actually folders. You can use the Export command from the Typinator menu, but you can also drag the set from the Typinator window into a Finder folder. For instructions about how to set up Typinator with Dropbox, see Typinator's User's Guide (click the "?" button in the Typinator window to access the document), section "The Sets folder".įor a one-time transfer of a set from one computer so another, first export the set on the source computer. In this way, all changes you make on one computer are automatically synchronized to all other computers. If you wish to use Typinator on more than one computer, we suggest using Dropbox for sharing your abbreviation sets among the computers. To quickly open the Library folder, open the Finder's "Go" menu, then press the option/alt key (⌥), and the item "Library" appears in the menu. Hint: In the default configuration, Typinator stores the Sets folder in the Library folder, which may be invisible on your computer. ![]() Important Notice: For a reliable synchronization with Dropbox it's important that the Sets Folder is set as "Make offline available" on every Mac (right click on your sets folder in your Dropbox and select "Make offline available"). ![]() For more information, see the section "The Sets folder" in the Typinator user's Guide. You can also store the Sets folder on Dropbox to automatically synchronize it between multiple Macs. Copy this folder to the same location on the other computer, then choose this folder as the "Sets folder" in Typinator's preferences. To move all your abbreviations from one Mac to another one (for example, when you replace an older Mac with a new model), transfer your sets folder to the new computer.Ĭheck the path of the "Sets folder" in Typinator's preferences. ![]()
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