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Opening EOS Nomad Showfile From Dropbox Shortcut on Mac

When opening a showfile from Eos Nomad on a mac, is there a way to open a Dropbox shortcut (alias)?

I currently copy showfiles from Dropbox onto my Mac desktop in order to get there quickly. Otherwise must open them by directly from dropbox by navigating there from the Mac hard drive which is a long path - Macintosh HD / Users / Ethan / Dropbox / and my file hierarchy. 

I create desktop shortcuts (aliases) of Dropbox folder for quicker navigation. I'm. hoping there is a way to utilize those from Nomad.

I'm using

Nomad V 3.1.4 Build 4

MacOS Monterey 12.2



Joining this with an existing feature request to make sure the discussion is linked to the feature request Mike mentioned.
[edited by: eos moderator at 8:40 PM (GMT -5) on Thu, Aug 31 2023]
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    With the new macOS File Provider API, the Dropbox folder (for users which have been migrated to the new API) has now moved to ~/Library/CloudServices. Unfortunately, this directory is not accessible via the CIA Browser. Any chance the Browser can be updated on macOS Nomad versions to show File Provider services?

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    +1 to this, though my workaround was changing my Show Archive Path in the shell to the new location, which was suggested in an earlier comment, though it's a bit different with the new API (and potentially for users with more than 1 Dropbox account).  My path was: /Users/[user account]/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox-Personal

    For some reason manually typing in the path didn't seem to work, but when I copied the path from the Dropbox interface (located in Dropbox, Preferences, Sync, Dropbox Folder Location) and pasted it into the EOS shell Show Archive Path, it seemed to work and I can access my Show File Archive from the CIA.  Users with more than 1 Dropbox account might encounter more issues, i.e. the directory that used to be called "Dropbox" changed to "Dropbox - Personal" when I added a 2nd account, and the spaces before and after "-" shouldn't be included in the file path.

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  • 0 in reply to stevelx

    +1 to this, though my workaround was changing my Show Archive Path in the shell to the new location, which was suggested in an earlier comment, though it's a bit different with the new API (and potentially for users with more than 1 Dropbox account).  My path was: /Users/[user account]/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox-Personal

    For some reason manually typing in the path didn't seem to work, but when I copied the path from the Dropbox interface (located in Dropbox, Preferences, Sync, Dropbox Folder Location) and pasted it into the EOS shell Show Archive Path, it seemed to work and I can access my Show File Archive from the CIA.  Users with more than 1 Dropbox account might encounter more issues, i.e. the directory that used to be called "Dropbox" changed to "Dropbox - Personal" when I added a 2nd account, and the spaces before and after "-" shouldn't be included in the file path.

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