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nileod
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

How to make an alias with a relative path?

After the Dropbox upgrade to the team accounts, we've lost all of our alias/shortcuts in our shared folders. After reading their suggestions, they basically said that we need to recreate all of the s...
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nileod
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

I am able to make new aliases/shortcuts! But my fear is that it will be broken again, should Dropbox decide to make some other change. I was hoping that there was something I could do to make it a relative path so that it doesn't matter what the folder name is. Like, in html terms.. I'm hoping to make the shortcut from "Server/FolderName/ItemA" to just "../ItemA" Something like that? Is it possible?

 

I'm not sure what status and version you're looking for. I opened the general and it says Drop v166.4.2920. Does that help?

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Megan
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3 years ago

Hi nileod, overall I can't tell you that aliases are Dropbox friendly, or supported. 

 

You can definitely continue on the same route that you are already doing, since it sounds like the way to go. However, from the Dropbox-related perspective, there are no specific steps, that I could give you in order to help with this. 

 

However, this is why this Community exists. 😎 I'll keep this thread open, and if anyone wants to shed some more light on this, and guide you that'd be more than ideal.

 

Thank you, I hope this clarifies!

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    nileod
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    Thanks! I appreciate it!

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