hyperlinks in a file located within a shared folder do not open when opened by others

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Pike_Constr wrote:

When I download the project folder to my dropbox account on my desktop, the links also worked. When I sent out a link from my Dropbox to someone else and they clicked on the hyperlink on their devise, the hyperlink do not work/open for the other person.

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It's the same problem that Walter described. The hyperlinks likely contain the full path to the linked file as it is on your computer, and since the Dropbox folder on everyone's computer is in a different location, the full path to the linked file is different for them than it is for you.

You have a file in your Dropbox that you want to link to. The link to that file will look something like this (assuming Windows and Dropbox in the default location):

C:\Users\Pike_Const\Dropbox\SharedFolder\LinkedFile.txt

That same file on my computer will have a link that looks like this:

E:\Data\Dropbox\Shares\SharedFolder\LinkedFile.txt

This is because your computer username is in the default Dropbox path, and also because people can choose to store their Dropbox folder anywhere (not to mention their ability to rename shared folders). Because of this, the link to the file is different for every user.

Aside from trying to use a relative link or a system variable like Walter suggested, the only other way to ensure this works is for everyone to store their Dropbox in the same exact location, such as C:\Dropbox, and make sure they don't rename the shared folder that the files reside in.

This isn't a Dropbox issue, but a symptom of how most programs link to external resources.