Dropbox sync when using Dropbox for Business

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Tom Streeter

2015-05-11 14:54:51 UTC

I have a personal Dropbox account and a work account. I'd like to sync my
BBEdit clippings, text factories and the like via my personal account.
Unfortunately it appears that BBEdit hardwires the sharing to this path:

Users/<username>/Dropbox/ Application Support/BBEdit/

When (in my case) my Dropbox folder is named:

Users/<username>/Dropbox (Personal)/ Application Support/BBEdit/

And, before you ask, I can't change that directory name.

Any way around this?

Thanks!

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Ian Beck

2016-10-06 22:15:51 UTC

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Sorry for dredging up an ancient topic, but I ran into the same issue
today; as ugly as it is, creating a symlink for my personal Dropbox folder
did the trick:

cd ~/
ln -s "Dropbox (Personal)" Dropbox

Yuck; BareBones, please fix your Dropbox location algorithm so that it can
intelligently find the Dropbox when using Dropbox for Business alongside
personal Dropboxes! (Better yet would be simply choose the location of
these folders and not rely on specific services...)

Ian

Post by Tom Streeter
I have a personal Dropbox account and a work account. I'd like to sync my
BBEdit clippings, text factories and the like via my personal account.
Users/<username>/Dropbox/ Application Support/BBEdit/
Users/<username>/Dropbox (Personal)/ Application Support/BBEdit/
And, before you ask, I can't change that directory name.
Any way around this?
Thanks!
--Tom Streeter

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Rich Siegel

2016-10-06 22:27:45 UTC

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Post by Ian Beck
Sorry for dredging up an ancient topic, but I ran into the same
issue today; as ugly as it is, creating a symlink for my
cd ~/
ln -s "Dropbox (Personal)" Dropbox
Yuck; BareBones, please fix your Dropbox location algorithm so
that it can intelligently find the Dropbox when using Dropbox
for Business alongside personal Dropboxes!

Unfortunately, Dropbox does not provide the mechanics necessary
for client applications to determine the file system location of
the Dropbox folder (or they didn't, last time I checked).

There's an expert preference for telling BBEdit where your
Dropbox folder is, if it's not in the default location:

defaults write com.barebones.bbedit DropboxRoot -string "/path/to/whatever"

No symlinking required.

For some reason I thought this was in the Expert Preferences
help, but it doesn't seem to be...

R.
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Christopher Stone

2016-10-08 01:49:47 UTC

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Unfortunately, Dropbox does not provide the mechanics necessary for client applications to determine the file system location of the Dropbox folder (or they didn't, last time I checked).

Hey Rich,

There's no API access I'm aware of, but the config file should be readily available.

cat ~/.dropbox/info.json

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François Schiettecatte

2016-10-08 02:35:40 UTC

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Yeah, but it still not an API so could change anytime, Dropbox has no obligation to support it, and BB would be wasting resources chasing it...

François

Post by Christopher Stone

Unfortunately, Dropbox does not provide the mechanics necessary for client applications to determine the file system location of the Dropbox folder (or they didn't, last time I checked).

Rich Siegel

2016-10-08 14:59:52 UTC

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On Friday, October 7, 2016, Christopher Stone

Post by Christopher Stone
There's no API access I'm aware of, but the config file should
be readily available.
cat ~/.dropbox/info.json

That way lies madness. :-) Dropbox does not publish the details
of their configuration (that I'm aware of). In the past, we used
to dig into their config files to find the Dropbox location, and
then they changed things and broke it.

I realize it's an inconvenience, and I'm sorry - but we have
provided a workable solution, and one that won't break whenever
Dropbox decides to make another change (as, it appears, they
already did by switching to JSON).

R.
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Rick Gordon

2016-10-10 21:10:38 UTC

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Dropbox documents it here: https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/4584

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Post by Rich Siegel
On Friday, October 7, 2016, Christopher Stone

Post by Christopher Stone
There's no API access I'm aware of, but the config file should be
readily available.
cat ~/.dropbox/info.json

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Rich Siegel

2016-10-11 15:45:53 UTC

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Post by Rick Gordon
Dropbox documents it here: https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/4584

I sit corrected :-), thanks for the pointer. I'll make a note of
this for a future version.

R.
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