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Open Dropbox URL in finder/explorer/locally
I'm asking for the latest version of Mac, although I also cannot see how to do it on PC (W10) either.
I know there used to be a simple setting for this, but it doesn't seem to exist any more.
In our small team's CRM we'll post a Dropbox link to relevant files. The owner of these files, on a Mac, and another user, with full access, on a PC, need these links to open up the local file. They're logged in, all sync'd, no issues with actually accessing the file (manually), but clicking the URL only ever opens in the browser.
Thanks.
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- Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey Marc IL, thanks for reaching out to our Community.
A URL of a file or folder will definitely open only the online version and only for the person who is logged in to the account the files are saved in.
If you want to use links, as a workaround, you can use a Dropbox shared link, which is used for sharing folders/files.
A shared link won't give you access to the local version of the file in the Dropbox folder, but you can use it to force-download a local version.
Any changes won't sync back to the original, though. It will just allow you to access and edit the file locally.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarifications! The fun stuff is - this works on iPhone. If you click a link on the phone, it opens the app. Is it impossible to have this functionality on the Mac - so that we can share links that open files directly in the corresponding program, and not in the browser...? We hack on this (spotlight search <filename>) *every day*.
