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Location of the Dropbox folder in Windows. Environment such as variable  %onedrive%

Location of the Dropbox folder in Windows. Environment such as variable  %onedrive%

Frank P E.
Helpful | Level 7

As it turns out,  MS Onedrive  when installed creates  an environment  variable  %onedrive% 

 

so, it seems to me that  when the dropbox  client is installed on windows,   an environment  variable  %dropbox% 

should be created with the path of the dropbox folder ---  dropbox is not always installed at  c:\users\<mywinid>\dropbox 

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Walter
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Megan
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Frank P E.
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I have a number of computers that connect to my dropbox  account -- not all of the computers have the dropbox folder installed in the same location, so with env var %dropbox% I could write generic scripts to run on any of the computers. 

 

Also, it not uncommon now to see computers with 2 hard drives where the boot drive is a small ssd  sometimes just 128gb and a second that is 1tb --- so installing dropbox  on the boot drive does not make sense in this case --- this is where %dropbox% would be very useful

Walter
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