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Common Mount Point of Files for all users in a team
On Mac OS is it possible for all members of a team to have the same mount point with Finder integration so that the absolute paths are the same for everyone?
Currently, it should be technically possible to do what you're doing, however, it would require you to manually change all the local drives to be the same, and configure the Dropbox desktop application to move the Dropbox folder to those specific locations.
Even when doing so, there may still be unexpected events that could change the location of the Dropbox folder. My advice would be to take caution when making these changes.
I merely thinking of the mount point, on Macs there a no drive letters, so everyone could make it the same if it weren't for the name of their own Mac right?
As I say, FCP Libraries are not on Dropbox but the media they point to is, so I was hoping it possible to make the paths the same for everyone. Eg with a locally attached drive, you would call it the same name and have the identical folder structure.
The path is volumes/ etc... Couldn't that be set up to be the same for all users?
- Mark
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Dropbox isnt designed to work on drive letters - if you have a one disconnect/change/delete etc. while Dropbox is open you could see a complete deletion of all data. There are (better now!) safeguards in place to stop this, but, its still not fool proof.
You could set up a specific location for each person if you manually reconfigure everybody on each device, but, that cannot be done centrally.
But, something else to consider here is how you will manage multiple people using the same program at the same time - you'll get conflicts and that may end up with data loss.
- I think you misunderstand. If I target my Dropbox folder to be on a locally attached drive on a Mac, no drive letters. If I call it the same thing the path to what is actually local files will be the same.
We are aware of the risks of deletion. The 180 day rule should cover that. We are simply syncing media files to each other locally. It works perfectly except that the paths to that media from the editing application are not the same.- But because for each user it’s essentially local storage ( but synced with the cloud), I would have thought it possible for the path to be the same
