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Ah, right. Well it's odd, because for me the status window isn't stealing focus like you say. I tried dropping a file onto the ImageShack destination. While it was uploading I was able to open and close new tabs in Chrome and close/open Finder windows.

What destination are you using when this happens? Also are you on OS X 10.6 or 10.7? Perhaps try rebooting and see if this still happens. There may be some other factor I'm missing.

Hi Tom!

You should definitely remove the old version first. The best way to do this is to simply drag the Dropzone icon out of the dock. A dialog should then come up with an option to 'Uninstall Dropzone' - click this, Dropzone 0.6 will be uninstalled and moved to the trash. Empty the trash to complete the uninstall.

Then you can download and install Dropzone 2 from http://aptonic.com/dropzone/latest

Install v2 again from http://aptonic.com/dropzone/latest and then when it comes up saying your trial has expired put your old registration details in.

All customers who purchased an old version can use their existing license details to register the new version.

I think the destinations have gone missing because when you upgraded to v2 your database was automatically upgraded and earlier versions don't work with the new database format. When you upgrade to v2 they should all come back again.

I've made you a modified version of the FTP Upload destination that uploads with FTP and then shortens the URL with bit.ly like you say - download it from the link below:

http://aptonic.com/getdestination.php?n … y.dropzone

Before you double click on this destination to install it, you'll need to edit it with a text editor (TextEdit should work) and update the following two lines at the top:

$BITLY_USERNAME = "your-bitly-username"
$BITLY_API_KEY = "your-bitly-apikey"

You need to change your-bitly-username and your-bitly-apikey to the info you get from bit.ly when you create an account. Then save the file, double click on the script to install it and put in your FTP details as normal.

Could you please do a search for Dropzone in Console.app (located in /Applications/Utilities) and see if there are any messages?

You have to give it your bit.ly API key in the password field, not your password. To get your bit.ly API key, go here: http://bit.ly/a/your_api_key

That should fix it!

For anyone else having this issue, Dropzone assumes that if you drag a single item that it doesn't need to zip it before attaching it to your message. However, if you want to always zip even for only one file then I have created a destination that does this.

Here's a link to the modified Zip & Email destination that always zips:

http://aptonic.com/getdestination.php?n … p.dropzone

Download and double click it to install it.

Thanks ivanlozano, but unfortunately that won't fix it.

I've been looking into this and it's due to a bug in the Zip & Email destination. I've just submitted Dropzone 2.1 to the Mac App Store and it should fix this issue.

I need more information than that. Is this via the Mac App Store or the old (0.6) dock based version?

How are you trying to open it and what happens exactly?

The alternative is Circles which is activated by dragging items to the middle right of the screen or moving the mouse there and clicking the half Circle that appears.

Try Circles, it gives you a much larger dragging target and is great if you have a lot of items in your menu bar.

I've got a lot of feedback from others who want this option as well so there's a good chance this will find its way into a future version.