On Mac OS is it possible for all members of a team to have the same mount point with Finder integration so that the absolute paths are the same for everyone?
Currently, it should be technically possible to do what you're doing, however, it would require you to manually change all the local drives to be the same, and configure the Dropbox desktop application to move the Dropbox folder to those specific locations.
Even when doing so, there may still be unexpected events that could change the location of the Dropbox folder. My advice would be to take caution when making these changes.
Hi @Bluebicycle, how are you today?
Can you share a bit more as to what you'd like to achieve here, so I can help as much as possible?
It's important to note, that if you're on a Business team, all the members have their own content too. Which means that they would need access to those on the desktop app as well.
Are you referring to team content?
Let me know more!
Yes so we are sharing Media using Apple's Final Cut Pro in a large organisation. There are a huge amount of files, but we just sync a folder for that week and then release in the following. But the media Paths to the editing application are absolute, which means that it all has to be relinked at any exchange.The Final Cut Library Bundle is a live database so they tend to be stored locally (as otherwise they are continually syncing and contain hundreds of files). But if the paths to media it links to was constant is would be so much better.If all members of Team had the same Dropbox mount point that would negate the need to continually relink.
Hi @Bluebicycle
That isnt something you can do with Dropbox natively and it would almost certainly need a rebuild of all users user accounts to make sure everybody was using the same User Account name.
Sadly Dropbox just is not designed to work with database type programs I'm afraid for this exact reason
I merely thinking of the mount point, on Macs there a no drive letters, so everyone could make it the same if it weren't for the name of their own Mac right?As I say, FCP Libraries are not on Dropbox but the media they point to is, so I was hoping it possible to make the paths the same for everyone. Eg with a locally attached drive, you would call it the same name and have the identical folder structure.
The path is volumes/ etc... Couldn't that be set up to be the same for all users?
Dropbox isnt designed to work on drive letters - if you have a one disconnect/change/delete etc. while Dropbox is open you could see a complete deletion of all data. There are (better now!) safeguards in place to stop this, but, its still not fool proof.
You could set up a specific location for each person if you manually reconfigure everybody on each device, but, that cannot be done centrally.
But, something else to consider here is how you will manage multiple people using the same program at the same time - you'll get conflicts and that may end up with data loss.
Hi @Bluebicycle, what version of the Mac OS are you all running?
Do any of your users have the Dropbox folder stored on the ~CloudStorage folder on their device?
Mostly on 12.3 Monterey. The folder is mounted in a variety of places for each individual, not usually iCloud synced.
This is now working with consistent paths between users as long as they call their drives the same off Volumes/xyz.However I just bought a bigger drive and moved my DB folder to it, but it was called the same (for reasons above) DB internally has now appended with "1", is there any way of changing this back?
Hey @Bluebicycle, sorry to jump in here, but could you clarify where you're spotting the (1) exactly?
Is it next to the Dropbox folder or the drive itself?
Also, when you say you moved your Dropbox folder, can you go through the steps you took exactly?
Last but not least, is the desktop app running and syncing properly in your menu bar?
