On 14 Nov 2013, at 14:31, Tony Crooks wrote:
For a platform agnostic sharing system that might be tough to bring off. Cooperative working on shared documents doesn’t seem to be in the Dropbox scheme at present unlike Google Drive or similar where documents aren’t replicated locally for each member of a sharing group.
This is very funny, I've actually worked it out throughthe process of explaining the whole thing...
this is not actually anything to do with Dropbox since we're all on macs... it's more to do with opening a file via a link that exists on the user's machine.
for instance this is the App store scheme in practice: <macappstore://ax.search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?q=things>
it's actually currently broken but should launch app store and send everything from ax onwards to that (just as http tells it to open the www link in a browser
You see this if you open an html file from the Finder. The URL showing in safari (etc) will be <file:///Volumes/Macintosh%20HD/Users/...>
At this point, I realised the answer to my original question is the word "file"...doh.
(try clicking on the link <file:///Volumes/Macintosh%20HD/Users/...>. It should, unless you renamed your hard drive, take you to your users folder)
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