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How to open dropbox link from slack to finder?
Our teams use Dropbox and Slack and we daily share internal dropbox project links from our dropbox to Slack.
The question everyone has, how can you easily open a dropbox link from slack to reveal i...
Short answer... no.
And remember that the path to a file on your computer will not be the same as the path to a file on someone else's computer, even if that file is in the same shared folder. By default, each user's Dropbox folder is located within their computer user profile, which often include that person's name or username in the path. That means a link to a file on your computer will not work on anyone else's comptuer. Add to that the fact that people can freely rename shared folders to anything they want without impacting the functionality of the share, and that just complicates it even more.
The only way for a full path to a file on your comptuer to work on other comptuers, is if everyone has Dropbox in the exact same location and haven't renamed the shared folder that the file is located in. If that's the case, you can just copy the path to the file from Explorer/Finder and share is at you like.
Hi, Lauri:
I have this exact same problem. One workaround I found:
Let's say you're in the shared folder in Finder. You can right-click and you'll see the "copy dropbox link," right? You send this to someone, and they click it. It opens on the web version, and they have to download it to work on it (or whatever--I don't use the web version much).
Instead, you can right click, and while the menu is up (where you would see "Copy dropbox link), press the Option key on your keyboard. You will see the right-click menu change. One of the options toward the bottom is "Copy [file] as Pathname." This will give you that long string you mentioned. But, as others said, it will have some stuff that is particular to you. But, for us, you eventually get to the shared portion and can just delete everything before that.
I haven't figured out how to then paste that path name anywhere to get a shortcut to that folder (probably because it is different when shared). So, it doesn't get you there with a link, but it saves some time.
I think what we're talking about here is a deep-link for a file/folder into the app itself. Surely this should be an option for teams to share within with others their organisation. You'd think it would be a pretty basic feature for a tool focussed on teams.
