How to determine the Dropbox folder location programmatically?

Question

I have a script that is intended to be run by multiple users on multiple computers, and they don\'t all have their Dropbox folders in their respective home directories. I\'d

Answer 1

Note: answer is valid for Dropbox v2.8 and higher

Windows

jq -r ".personal.path" < %APPDATA%\Dropbox\info.json

This needs jq - JSON parser utility to be installed. If you are happy user of Chocolatey package manager, just run choco install jq before.

Linux

jq -r ".personal.path" < ~/.dropbox/info.json 

Just similarly to Windows install jq using package manager of your distro.