.Mac iDisk File Sharing

When you have a .Mac membership, you're assigned a generous amount of data storage space on Apple's computers. The .Mac personal storage is called your iDisk. It provides storage for data backups as well as for all sorts of files you can create with .Mac HomePage and iWeb. More to the point, you can place files in your iDisk's "Public" folder for others to access.

For lots more details about using your iDisk, including how to password-protect it, please see Chapter 4, pages 5964.

To open your iDisk, from the Go menu, choose "iDisk," then choose "My iDisk," as shown below-left. When your iDisk is mounted, an iDisk icon appears on your Desktop, bearing the name of your .Mac membership.

Or if you see an iDisk icon in your Finder window Sidebar, as shown belowright, just single-click on it and your iDisk folders will appear.

Upload Files to Your iDisk "Public" Folder

Using one of the three methods above, open the iDisk window to see its folders, including a folder named "Public." Remember, you're looking at files that are on Apple's servers. Open another Finder window on your hard disk (press Command N); drag files you want to share from your hard disk Finder window into the Public iDisk folder. Once they're in your iDisk Public folder, anyone to whom you've given your .Mac user name can download them.

Download Files From a .Mac Member's Public Folder

To download files from someone else's iDisk "Public" folder, all you need is the .Mac user name. (Also see the following four pages for another option.)

1.	From the Go menu (shown above), choose "iDisk," then choose "Other User's Public Folder...."
2.	Enter a member's account name in the "Member name" field, then click "Connect."
3.	The member's iDisk Public folder mounts on your Desktop.
4.	Drag files from their Public folder to your own Desktop.