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Opening a Showspace someone shared with you

Add the shared folder to your own drive, then open it in lite.computer as a Showspace of your own.

A shared Showspace is a shared folder. Once it is on your Mac, lite.computer opens it like any other Showspace, with the gallery, search and presenting.

What you need

  • lite.computer on your Mac, on the trial or a license.
  • The drive it came from, on your Mac. iCloud Drive turned on, or the desktop app for Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, signed in with the account the folder was shared with.

1 · Add the folder to your drive

A folder shared with you reaches Finder once you add it to your own drive. Each service does this a little differently.

Google Drive. Go to drive.google.com, signed in with the account the folder was shared with. Click Shared with me, right-click the folder and choose Organize › Add shortcut, then pick My Drive. Once Google Drive has synced it, the folder appears in Finder, in that account’s My Drive.

Dropbox. Go to dropbox.com, click Home, then Shared in the left sidebar. Hover over the folder and choose Join folder. It is added to your Dropbox and appears in your Dropbox folder in Finder.

OneDrive. Go to onedrive.com and open Shared. Right-click the folder and choose Add shortcut to My files. It then appears in your OneDrive folder in Finder. OneDrive adds only folders you can edit, so ask the owner for edit access. On a work or school account, the folder must also be shared from inside your own organization.

iCloud Drive. Click the link you received, then click Open. The folder is added to your iCloud Drive.

2 · Open it in lite.computer

Click the Showspace button at the top of the sidebar and choose Open Showspace…. Pick the shared folder. It opens as a Showspace and goes to the top of your Showspace list. See Switching between Showspaces.

Still stuck? Write to support@lite.computer.