Automatically upload and share screenshots with DropBox – the smart new feature!

DropBox has been efficient in automatically uploading screenshots from your smartphone or PC to the cloud for quite some time. In order to make facts easier and simpler for users who take screenshots very frequently and need to upload and share them very often, DropBox has facilitated a new feature, which facilitates automatic upload and share of screenshots with DropBox. This facility is available with the latest released version of DropBox. Hence, if you have not yet updated the program to its latest release, do so now in order to access some interesting specs, along with the auto-upload-share screenshots feature.

A simple way to automatically upload and share screenshots with DropBox

After you DropBox program has been upgraded to the latest version, open it and take a screenshot first. The first time when you take a screenshot after the software has been updated to the latest version, DropBox would ask you if you want to enable automatic screenshot upload feature. After the message pops ups, press the ‘save screenshots to DropBox’ option.

Automatically sharing screenshots with DropBox

Screenshots would be uploaded automatically to the screenshot folder in DropBox, while you are accessing the software on a PC. Then you can press the CTRL + PRINT screen shortcut in order to upload the screenshot as well as copy the link to clipboard. However, screenshots are automatically uploaded on Macs and the link is copied to clipboard. In order to share the screenshot that had been uploaded into DropBox, simply paste the link (copied to the clipboard) into your social networking accounts of email. Also, the latest DropBox release features a new handy photo importer for Macs. The spec allows you to copy all photos directly from iPhoto to DropBox and also creates a different folder for every event.

Disabling the auto screenshot upload option in DropBox

Sometimes, users may change their mind about the automatic screenshot upload option in DropBox, concerning their needs. Users may not want some private screenshots to be automatically uploaded to the DropBox. Hence, if you think that you would need to change the requirement at some time, you must know to disable the automatic screenshot upload option in DropBox. In order to do so, go to ‘preferences’ menu in your DropBox, then navigate to ‘import’ option and finally uncheck the box appearing next to the ‘share screenshots using DropBox’ option in order to disable the feature.