Access Dropbox and Other Cloud Storage Directly from Chrome

Google has done an excellent job of baking its own cloud service, Google Drive, into the Chrome OS file manager. If you use Drive for most of your cloud needs, then it feels like native storage on a a Chrome OS device. But if you use something else, like Dropbox or network attached storage, things don’t seem so clean. Here’s how to add those directly to the file manager in Chrome OS so you can navigate them quickly and easily.

There are a couple of different ways to go about doing this: you could search for each service one at a time and add them manually, or you could use the oft-overlooked “Add new services” link in the file manager. Yeah, the second way is much simpler, so we’re going to show you how to do that. We’re going to be adding a Dropbox share in this tutorial, but the same steps will apply to pretty much all the other cloud storage services out there.

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