Droplet
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Upload via droplets
On Apple computers you can have so called droplets. These are applications that you can drop items onto. Then the droplet does something with these files. In INTERDUBS' case it does upload the files you dropped onto it into a specific INTERDUBS folder.
Droplet creation
These droplets will be generated on the fly for you and they are very small. They contain all the information that is needed to connect to INTERDUBS and put the files into the folder that you created the droplet in. There is no configuration, password etc that you would need to add. It's all inside of the droplet that you requested.
A droplet gets created when you are in a 
folder in INTERDUBS. Simply click on the 
generate droplet icon. INTERDUBS will make a droplet for the folder that you are in and will start the download of the file.
delivered in dmg file
Safari will download and actually mount the dmg file. In Firefox you will see a download dialog. Once the dmg file has been downloaded you click on it, and it does mount. Once the INTERDUBS_droplet file is mounted you should drag the actual droplet somewhere onto your desktop or into a folder of your choice. Once you copied the droplet out of the dmg you do not need the mounted disk image any longer.
Usage
When you drop a file onto the droplet then it will be uploaded into the folder that you have created the droplet in. You can have as many droplets as you like. They will have the name of the folder that they were created in. But you can rename them to anything that makes sense to you. The information where to upload files to is stored internally in the droplet.
No folders (right now)
At this point you can only drop files on to droplet. The upload of folders and their contents is not yet supported.
Meta Data
The same possibilities for Ftp#meta_data exist also for data uploaded via droplets.
OS X 10.4
At this point some computers running OS X 10.4 are unable to run INTERDUBS droplets. Since this is a bug in the Apple operating system and OS X 10.4 is not the recent operating system this bug will not be addressed. If you run Firefox and install the drag drop upload add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2190?application=firefox&id=2190 you can upload many files by dragging them on to the upload box.
OS X 10.6
OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard has issues with the way that the droplet reports the progress. You will see an error message like:
System Evens got an error: Can't get process "your folder name will be here" (-1728)
The workaround is to generate a droplet without the progress bar that exists as an option in the interface. It is labeled 10.6
System requirements
Internally the droplet uses the program curl that is installed on every OS X computer. Small parts of the droplet are written in the programming language perl that is also part of a normal OS X install. Please get in touch if you should experience issues with INTERDUBS' droplet functionality.
Transport mechanism
Droplets use ftp to transfer data into the INTERDUBS system. This mechanism is similar but not the same than the Ftp gateway of INTERDUBS. See using the droplet gateway for details.
Bug When you have folder names with the '/' character in them, then the upload will actually create a folder for day and then month.
