Please update the sub-"open"-dialogs so it is easier to find files on dropbox

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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Hi, it is difficult to quickly locate locations like dropbox, onedrive and on custom links etc due to these old dialogboxes:

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This has been an issue in V5 for many years too, so please see if you can update this prior to V6 release.

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Hm - yeah - it looks like those are mostly if not all RDK dialogs. I’ll see if we can tune that up - thanks.

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-42840

-Pascal

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Thanks, and another thing “Dropbox” is a place, not a directory on a drive… This is important to fix since this messes up working on different computers or sharing stuff with shared folders:

If I make files on one computer and go to render on another then the HDRI texture is “lost”:

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It is a directory on a drive - in this case your “D” drive. It’s just a synced folder. I always try to make sure the drive (letter) where the folder resides is the same on all my computers…

You can also make the Dropbox folder a library… you would then see it in the dialog you show above.

–Mitch

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Needless to say, but it is also a location that the system knows where is, and dropbox is an established provider so I think Rhino should check if a linked file is located on it. (Among others)

As an example this script lists the files in your dropbox top folder:

import glob, os

print os.path.expanduser('~/Dropbox')

os.chdir(os.path.expanduser('~/Dropbox'))
for file in glob.glob("*.*"):
    print(file)

You can also make the Dropbox folder a library… you would then see it in the dialog you show above

Good idea.

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That’s a problem for me too.
Would be great if there was a solution for this, but probably difficult.