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Hi
A number of us have started using dropbox paper at work. We want to save documents that we create in paper to an existing Team folder but I can't see how to do this. Any ideas anyone?
Hey all, wondering if there is currently a way, or one on the horizon, where I can use a single Dropbox folder to house both static docs (PDFs, Word, Excel) along with Paper docs. Would be incredible / revolutionize everything if we'd be able to save them to a single folder.
Tom H.Super User
At the moment to my knowledge just like yours, there is no way to do this. My best solution (persoanlly) is place a text file in the folder with a link to the paper doc.
Uusally Dropbox never comments on upcoming features. Just incase plans change, development hits a snag etc.
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Thanks for the info. Not what I was hoping, but good to know there's not something I missed.
Could you please pass on my feedback to the Paper developers!
- Karina
No problem, and absolutely, I'm on it!
I'll file a feedback request with our Paper developers on your suggestion.
Happy Friday!
+1 to this. Here's my use case... I have a Dropbox folder titled "Car" -- all of my car maintenance receipts etc get scanned and go into that folder. I also have a Dropbox Paper doc as a master maintenance journal- a single document showing all the work done on the car. Naturally, I want to save that in the "Car" folder in Dropbox. This seems like a pretty big miss with Paper/Dropbox.
If Dropbox can't represent Paper documents as regular files (for store on local drive), good workaround will be to store them as link (eg .url file - https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-create-a-url-file ) in Dropbox files structure.
So Dropbox users will can easily access to Dropbox Paper documents in browser via single click (in web interface and in system file explorer).
This will be much better that now, when users must duplicate folder strucute from Dropbox Files to Dropbox Paper.
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I agree with others that this limitation on placing paper docs within other dropbox files makes this application clunky and much less usable. I am using dropbox to organize work with multiple non-profits and organizations (i.e. not within a single organization) and adding this additional layer of folders is prompting some of these folks to ask for a return to Google Drive where everything can be in the same place. Without linking back and forth.
