Dropshare optionally creates an HTML landing page for each of your uploads. If you want to enable this feature, open the Preferences and select the Landing page tab.
Select Create landing pages for uploaded files if you want Dropshare to create a landing page for your uploads.
In case you want to disable the landing page for a single upload, press and hold the option key (⌥) while dragging a file to Dropshare.
Custom landing page designs
You can either use the default landing page design, or create your very own design with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Select the "Custom" design to enable your own landing page design, and edit the HTML for your design.
Within the HTML, you can use HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other web technologies to create your individual landing page design.
Additionally, the following variables are provided and will be automatically replaced:
| Variable name | Replacement |
|---|---|
| __FILENAME__ | Name of the uploaded file (e.g. for headline) |
| __PATH__ | Path to the uploaded file (e.g. for download link) |
| __PREVIEW__ | Will be replaced with preview image (if possible, e.g. for screenshots) |
| __FILESIZE__ | Formatted filesize (e.g. 128 KB) |
| __FILETYPE__ | Apple Uniform Type Identifier (Read more) |
| __SHAREDATE__ | ISO formatted date of sharing |
| __PREVIEWURL__ | Absolute URL to preview file, required e.g. for Twitter cards or Slack previews (or custom preview implementations) |
| __LANDINGPAGEURL__ | Absolute URL to the landing page |
| __UNIXSHAREDATE__ | Unix Timestamp date of sharing |
Free landing page designs
A number of free landing page designs has been submitted by the Dropshare for Mac community. Check them out here.
Why is the landing page omitted when I drag & drop files from some applications (e.g. Napkin.app?)
This is a bug we're unable to fix, but we offer a workaround for it (works with Dropshare 3.10 and newer). Open Terminal.app and execute the following command:
defaults write net.mkswap.Dropshare alwaysIgnoreAltWhenDragging YES
Dropshare 4 and newer
defaults write net.mkswap.Dropshare4 alwaysIgnoreAltWhenDragging YES
This will always produce landing pages for your uploads, even when you hold the ⌥ key while dropping the file onto the Dropshare icon. Read more about this.
To disable this workaround, use the following command:
defaults write net.mkswap.Dropshare alwaysIgnoreAltWhenDragging NO
Dropshare 4 and newer
defaults write net.mkswap.Dropshare4 alwaysIgnoreAltWhenDragging NO