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tanguyap
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6 months ago

How can I open a shared link from the site in Finder?

My Workflow: I often receive Dropbox links from my team through various channels — Slack, email, AirDrop, Notion, etc.To review the files, I need to open them in specific apps, since the file types...
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tanguyap
Helpful | Level 5
5 months ago

Sorry Jay​, I hadn’t seen your reply and then I bumped onto the same problem again and remembered this post 😅

to answer your question : 
yes those links all originate from the same folder hierarchy within our team that we share. So the path to the file in their finder is the same as mine except for the user name. 
hope that helps !

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