In El Capitan (10.11), System Integrity Protection will not permit the old mach_inject-style approach.Īccording to the documentation for the Finder Sync Extension: Lacking similar treatment, other ordinary folders have only generic icons in the sidebar.Įdit : As of Yosemite (10.10), there is a new, sanctioned Finder Sync API for integration, as doovers points out in another answer. If you're curious, the resource files live here (at least, on my system): /Library/DropboxHelperTools/Dropbox_u502/DropboxBundle.bundle/Contents/ResourcesĬlearly, Dropbox goes to great lengths in order to integrate seamlessly into the Finder. The same bundle provides both the toolbar item and the sidebar icon. Some curious folks on StackOverflow found the specific mechanism used by Dropbox: good ol' mach_inject. In non-technical speak, it's a special hack that's installed by the Dropbox application.

The short answer is that Dropbox uses undocumented API to accomplish this. So why does Dropbox get special treatment?

You can add additional Input Fields if you’d like to include more information.Īfter triggering a Zap via the Chrome extension, you can return the results and display them right in the extension.As you've noticed, recent versions of OS X only display generic folder icons in the sidebar. When you trigger this Zap from the Zapier Chrome extension, by default it will include the website’s title, URL, timestamp, and who triggered the Zap. Searches for files in a folder that match a search term in the contents or name. Make sure the number of files/folders in the watched folder does not exceed 4000.

Moves a file to a new location at the path you specify.Ĭreates a brand new text file from plain text content you specify.Īdds a new line to an existing text file, or creates a file if it doesn't exist.įinds a folder by name. Upload an existing file or attachment not bigger than 100 MB. Make sure the number of files/folders in the watched folder does not exceed 4000.Ĭreates a brand new folder at the path you specify.

Triggers when a new file is added to a folder. Does not remove existing sharing settings. Upload a file to Drive, that replaces an existing file.Īdds a sharing scope to the sharing preference of a file.

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