where is dropbox located on the fs?

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where is dropbox located on the fs?

kennethreitz opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Kenneth Reitz commented 7 years ago

lucmult · Answer 1 · Thu Jul 19 2018 09:04:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

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

UNIVAC-Colonel-Panic · Answer 2 · Sun Jun 23 2019 02:45:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

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.