Get Dropbox integration with the ChromeOS file supervisor

Jack Wallen walks you through the steps for integrating your Dropbox account into the ChromeOS file manager.

yes, which you could open up your Dropbox account in a web browser and manipulate your data and folders. but that is never very nearly as productive as having the means to engage with Dropbox from within a file supervisor. Up earlier, with ChromeOS, that wasn't feasible. but due to developer Yoichiro Tanaka, Dropbox integration is right here.

The one caveat to the app Tanaka has created is that it doesn't let you pin data or folders as shortcuts within the left navigation of the ChromeOS file manager. Google has come out to claim they will be adding this capability in the future ─ so pinning Dropbox files/folders as shortcuts may be as simple as a two-finger tap on a folder and settling on Create Shortcut:

including a shortcut to the ChromeOS file manager

 photograph: Jack Wallen

Now, how do you add Dropbox support to the ChromeOS file supervisor? it's truly somewhat fundamental. listed here are the steps:

From within Chrome (in your Chromebook), talk over with the web shop web page for the File device for Dropbox app

click on the Add To Chrome button

When triggered, click the Add button

enable the installing to finished

click the ChromeOS menu button and search for the Dropbox entry. click the launcher and then, when the app launches, click the Mount button:

Mounting your Dropbox account to your ChromeOS File manager

 graphic: Jack Wallen

when you click on the Mount button, you might be asked to enter the authentication credentials in your Dropbox account. Upon a success authentication with your account, make sure you see an entry for Dropbox within the File manager:

Dropbox listed within the ChromeOS file manager

 graphic: Jack Wallen

that you could now drag and drop data to and from your Dropbox account and even at once open ChromeOS supported data. You can also find a mild lag when opening info from inside the Dropbox folder ─ but the lag is never dangerous ample to stay away from this integration from being tremendously effortless.

you might have just added even more storage space and third-birthday party support to your Chromebook. And due to the fact that it be Dropbox ─ it's reasonably an addition.

if you've been looking forward to the likes of Dropbox guide to locate its method into ChromeOS, wait now not. With just a couple of quick steps, you're going to be enjoying a linked Dropbox account in the ChromeOS file manager.

a further huge step ahead to one of the quickest growing to be systems on the earth.

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