mapbox/tilemill — Issue #780: Adding to VirtualBox support doc
Author: sarahkhank
Created: 2011-10-11 04:05:46+00:00
State: open

Eric said I should move this issue from atrium to here. Still not sure who takes care of this, but let me know if there's anything else I can do.

Yesterday I was using TileMill via VirtualBox on my PC for the first time and realized there were no instructions on how to load your data from your PC into the machine. I asked Will about it and he helped me out (which is why I'm assigning it to him - not sure who the appropriate person is), so I wrote up a little blurb that could be added to the [support doc](http://support.mapbox.com/kb/introduction-installation/tilemill-virtualbox-vm) for other PC users out there.

I envision this blurb going right before the "More Details" heading:

"Once you have TileMill running on VirtualBox, you’ll want to load your data into your project. This is easy if you have a [DropBox](www.dropbox.com) account. Simply create a folder in DropBox to store your TileMill data. Copy the files from your PC into this folder, and then sign into DropBox online from within the machine. Download the files into the “data” folder in the mapbox directory. You will now be able to access your data from TileMill."

Anyone have any edits or comments? What's the next step here? Who can post this?