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Lauri I.'s avatar
Lauri I.
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

How to open dropbox link from slack to finder?

Our teams use Dropbox and Slack and we daily share internal dropbox project links from our dropbox to Slack. The question everyone has, how can you easily open a dropbox link from slack to reveal i...
  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    6 years ago

    Short answer... no.

    And remember that the path to a file on your computer will not be the same as the path to a file on someone else's computer, even if that file is in the same shared folder. By default, each user's Dropbox folder is located within their computer user profile, which often include that person's name or username in the path. That means a link to a file on your computer will not work on anyone else's comptuer. Add to that the fact that people can freely rename shared folders to anything they want without impacting the functionality of the share, and that just complicates it even more.

    The only way for a full path to a file on your comptuer to work on other comptuers, is if everyone has Dropbox in the exact same location and haven't renamed the shared folder that the file is located in. If that's the case, you can just copy the path to the file from Explorer/Finder and share is at you like.

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