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legacyblade
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7 years ago
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Open a folder in dropboc desktop app via external application

Hey everyone, I'm trying to adapt a C# winform tool we use at my office to use the new dropbox desktop app.  The app searches our client folders and opens a folder in windows explorer. (The exact ...
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    Greg-DB
    7 years ago

    Dropbox doesn't offer an interface for interacting with the new Dropbox desktop app like this, such as to open a specific folder in it, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

Dropbox doesn't offer an interface for interacting with the new Dropbox desktop app like this, such as to open a specific folder in it, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. 

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