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Rodney2024
6 months agoNew member | Level 2
Changes to shared links stopped me from downloading them in Windows Powershell
I run a few radio stations and often use Windows Powershell to download show content from Dropbox. I prefer to do it this way because I do things such as change the file names, reorganize multiple fi...
- 6 months ago
Okay adding the ^ in front of the & solves the problem
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi Rodney2024, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Are you certain that you're using the whole link? Newer shared links have an rlkey that needs to be included when accessed.
This will help me to assist further!
Rodney2024
6 months agoNew member | Level 2
Yes the new link will work in a browser but not in the same Powershell command and yes I use the entire link only changing the dl_ value from 0 to 1
- Rodney20246 months agoNew member | Level 2
Looks like the url becomes broken. It added spaces around the &
Powershell -Command "(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('"db link & st=1nk3hwsd & dl=1"','B:\DropBox Download Tool\\WORK\NewLinkTest2024.zip')" 1>NUL
The string is missing the terminator: '.
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : TerminatorExpectedAtEndOfString'st' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'dl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.- Rodney20246 months agoNew member | Level 2
Okay I found something about it. I basically need to put the url inside of a single, double, double quotes '""....URL-STRING...""'
Spoke too soon
- Rodney20246 months agoNew member | Level 2
Okay adding the ^ in front of the & solves the problem
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