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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 it in finder?
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.
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I am having the same issue as Lauri, which is described accurately by henrou
There is no button to either open a file or open a folder (when on dropbox.com), that then opens the same file or folder within the dropbox app. So when team members using the same dropbox send each other links for easy location to a file (whether through Slack or other), the only option is to work on it in dropbox.com. The OPEN button gives other app options, but unfortunately not the dropbox app option or even the Open in Finder option.
Download is not an option because it creates a duplicate file rather than keeping the orginal file which everyone is working on together
Can this issue be continued here, or does a new one need to be started to find a solution to this? Thx.
Yeah super annoying that such an obvious feature is missing. I feel like dropbox has stopped developing their core app but are putting effort into paper and other services that are not that relevant to me personally. The desktop app still feels super heavy and features such as selective sync is annoyingly hard to access (as with smart sync I still dont want some folders to be synced at all).
I've found another discussion which covers this too. Not solved either, but worth adding your "voice" to.
