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where is dropbox located on the fs?

Open kennethreitz opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

kennethreitz avatar Nov 21 '17 18:11 kennethreitz

Hi Kenneth,

Dropbox uses FileSystemProvider API [1], so it doesn't actually mount on the physical FS.

If you need access to Dropbox files outside browser or Chrome OS UI it has to be a FR on Chrome OS. You can open a feature request here [2], component "Platform>Apps>FileManager". I would be interested in your use case.

And since I'm here... thanks for requests lib! :-D

Cheers.

[1] - https://developer.chrome.com/apps/fileSystemProvider [2] - https://crbug.com/new

lucmult avatar Jul 19 '18 01:07 lucmult

The Chromium developers do seem to be working on allowing mounts on the physical filesystem. See issue 896964. You can help make it a priority by starring the issue.

UNIVAC-Colonel-Panic avatar Jun 22 '19 18:06 UNIVAC-Colonel-Panic