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Is there a way to get DropBox on iOS to follow Windows shortcut links to another DropBox file in another folder on DropBox?
I am a musician and have a very large number of Word song files in one master folder that I use a number of shortcuts in other folders to access. This way I don't have multiple copies of a song file which would make editing a mess. These other folders are basically for categories like genre and artist or types like summer songs, western songs, songs of the '60's etc. I normally use these on a Windows laptop or desktop which works very well, but when I am on my iPhone or iPad I cannot follow these shortcut links.
I've thought of trying to set up a Workflow or IFTTT solution, but I haven't figured that out yet.
I've also contacted DropBox with a request for an up date to DropBox for iOS to allow following shortcut links to other files in DropBox, but I haven't had a response.
Does anyone know of a clever workaround or way to accomplish what I'm after?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Thank you, Maple. Having shortcut support would really help me. I hope the engineers will consider this.
The URL thing is what I was thinking for a workaround. I was also thinking that I could create a macro-type workaround that would search the Dropbox folder for the file based on the .lnk file.
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