Introduction

The file hosting service Dropbox provides IGB users a quick and easy way to share IGB Quickload sites with their colleagues and collaborators over the cloud. Please follow the instructions below to properly setup your Quickload site within a Dropbox folder.

1) Follow the guidelines found in IGB User’s Guide to set up a Quickload folder: Creating QuickLoad Siteson the Creating QuickLoad Sites page of the IGB User's Guide to create an IGB Quickload directory.

2) Place your created Quickload folder directory into the Public Dropbox folder.

3) Go into the Quickload folder and click on the contents.txt file.             (You should then see an option to " Copy public link..."

4) Click on "Copy public link…" and then select "Copy to Clipboard".

5) Now go to IGB.Under open IG and click on Configure under the Data Access tab in the bottom left corner of IGB, click on Configure.

This will open the Data Sources panel tab within IGB Preferences.

6) Click on the Add… button.

• For name, enter whatever you want this server to be (Dropbox Quickload_Genome_Species, etc.).
• For type, leave as Quickload.
• For URL:, enter the Public Link from Dropbox.

            IMPORTANT: remove the “contents"contents.txt” txt" from the end of the public link.

7) Hit submit Submit.

            You should then be told that your data is now available.

8) Your data should now be available under the Species linkMenu.

 *If further assistance is needed please contact Ann Loraine, who will forward your question to the IGB team.

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