Prevent sharing of Drop Box

Nov 07, '03 09:26:00AM

Contributed by: dontlikehippies

The amount of free space on my 40 GB hard drive has been continuously decreasing since I bought it, so I decided to go through and delete space wasters. I began my search by looking for exceptionally large files/folders. It was then that I discovered 8 GB of junk in my publicly-available Drop Box.

Someone on my residence hall's network was using my Drop Box as free storage space for illegal copies of copyrighted works. After I finished watching Kill Bill and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I promptly set about patching my newfound security hole:

  1. Purge Unwanted Files — Your drop box can be found at ~/Public/Drop Box.
  2. Change Permissions - With the Drop Box folder folder selected in the finder, press COMMAND+I to show information for your Drop Box. In the window that appears, change the setting for Others to "No Access." If it is hidden, the setting can be found in the Ownership & Permissions section.
Although my free space is still dwindling, the 8 gigs I recovered will be more than enough to get me through the month.

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