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That webpage you found is not related to Dropzone at all. That's a different project that just happens to have the same name. You don't need to know how to code to use Dropzone.

Dropzone is a Mac app so your band members would need to be using a Mac to use Dropzone. You can download Dropzone from our website at https://aptonic.com

You are correct about Dropzone being a sort of FTP for dummies though. You can indeed use Dropzone to drop a file onto it and have it upload to a predetermined folder.

Once you have it downloaded and running, you need to add an 'FTP Upload' action. You can do this by clicking the Dropzone menu item and clicking the white plus then choosing 'FTP Upload' from the list - from there you need to put in the settings for your FTP server which you'd need to get from your web host. Once the action is setup you can then drag items to the top of the screen to open the Dropzone grid and then you drop them on the FTP action you've setup.

I've added screenshots below to clarify the steps to set this up. Hope that helps!

Hmmm. I have to admit that looks very interesting indeed. Thanks for showing me that. Of course being a paid service I suppose users would need their own Zamzar accounts which I guess is the only downside.

But I will have a play around with their API and see if an action could be easily made for Dropzone.

Thanks, glad you like the update. And I appreciate the way you've asked this - giving me a chance to explain first rather than just demanding I change it back. Very refreshing.

So the reason I've made the menu item smaller is that you can now drag files directly to the top of the screen to open the Dropzone grid so you don't need the wider target. Also, some users have many apps in their menu bar so having a wide icon that took up two spaces was less than ideal. Also if you want to open the grid to click an action you can assign a keyboard hotkey to do this now (the default is F3). So you don't really need to click on the menu item any more either. This means that the menu item is now mainly for showing task status and for clicking to open the grid if you forget about the keyboard shortcut.

That said, there's a bit of an issue that has arisen under the El Capitan beta where when you drag files to the top of the screen it sometimes opens Spaces. I'm not sure why or if this is a bug (maybe it's for dragging files between spaces). But I can't see a way to disable it and it makes dragging files to the top of the screen to open Dropzone not work nearly as well, so I might have to reconsider bringing back the wider menu item if I can't find another way to workaround this.

I could probably make having the wider menu item an option. I've resisted this so far because I feel that many apps are bad in that they try to please everyone by having options for everything and the app just becomes a complicated mess of Preferences. I'd prefer to just make a decision that works for the majority of users and then not have a lot of options, because in my experience opinionated software is the best.

Try it again now. It looks like Imgur was having issues.

Awesome Patrick! So glad you like it

Thanks for that Jonathon!

I'm going to wait a bit and see if Imgur fix this themselves. It's just the Google OAuth method that's broken just now - all the other methods (Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo) are currently working. If it's not fixed soon then I will implement the workaround in Dropzone you have suggested.

For any others looking for help with this, first make sure you download the beta build from:

http://shipsomecode.com/misc/Dropzone-3.5-Build763.zip

Then choose an authorization method other than G+ for the time being. Using a proper Imgur account or choosing Twitter, Facebook or Yahoo methods should all authorize fine.

Hmmm, yep same problem here. And yes it's caused by authenticating via Twitter, it works fine if authenticating via a normal Imgur account. I'm looking into it now, hope to have a fix for you soon.

I've just fixed this bug. Here's a beta build for you to try with the fix, you can run this beta version and you'll still be auto-updated the next major version when it's released:

http://shipsomecode.com/misc/Dropzone-3 … ild737.zip

Let me know if this version fixes it for you.

Yeah, I agree that's not ideal. I will definitely look at implementing something so that renamed folders auto-update to point to the new location in a future version. Thanks for the feedback.

Hi Steven,

Great! Glad that fixed it. Recently a few customers have reported excessive CPU and RAM usage when using the App Store version of Dropzone but switching to the non-App Store version always seems to fix it. I'm not really sure what's causing this but I will be investigating further.

Updates will happen automatically on the non-Mac App Store version so I recommend you just stick with this version. I doubt this is a wider issue with the app store affecting other apps. Probably it's some rare configuration of Dropzone and OS X or other apps that doesn't work well with sandboxing for some reason.

I've just updated this action. Can you please try reinstalling it from here:

https://aptonic.com/dropzone3/actions/i … P%20Upload

After update, right click on the SCP action in the grid, click Edit and check you're now using version 1.1.

Let me know if this new version fixes it