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Dear team
Searching for files (e.g. by name) on the iOS app is very quick and good. However, once found, it would be great if we could see the full filepath of that resulting folder or file (e.g. C:\Dropbox\.... ) so that it can be quickly found on my laptop or desktop machine. Can you add this feature please?
(Under the iOS app, you can select 'Show in Folder' via the three dots next to the file, but this still doesn't give visability of the full path.)
Thanks if you can help.
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Thanks, iar
Useful to know that tip.
Please see also my response to Rich.
Thank-you so much for responding to the query, Rich. I appreciate it.
Even a list of the two or three folders above the current folder would be very useful for those that keep quite a few nested fodlers. e.g. ......\Folder1\Subfolder2\Subfolder\
Or something like that. Just omit or truncate the root part.
- iar
Dropbox Staff
Hey Wideangle123, thanks for reaching out! And Rich, thanks for your response.
As Rich stated, there isn't a great way to ensure a full path is accurate across devices.
That said, in the iOS app there is a way to see the folder hierarchy for the folder you're currently viewing. Inside any folder, tap and hold on the back button in the top nav bar, and a list of all the folders up to the root Dropbox folder will be displayed.
As long as you know where your Dropbox folder is located on a given device, this should help identify the location of files or folders within.
- Rich
Super User II
on the iOS app ... it would be great if we could see the full filepath of that resulting folder or file (e.g. C:\Dropbox\.... ) so that it can be quickly found on my [computer]
That could be difficult as the file might not have the same path across multiple devices.
For instance, I have Dropbox installed on many computers and most of them don't have the Dropbox folder in the same location. On my main laptop it's in the default location under my user profile, but my various desktops and servers have the Dropbox folder located on other drives and none of them are the same. In such a scenario, what path would be returned?
The other scenario is people that don't use the same username across multiple computers. They have Dropbox in the default location on multiple computers but at home their username is different from their username at work, so the path to their Dropbox folder will be different on each computer.
Maybe they could show the path from the root of the Dropbox folder, rather than the full path from the root of the drive, since that could be different across multiple devices.
