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Fake activity?
Yesterday I uploaded a movie file to Dropbox for some friends to download. Immediately after, I decided to check from a browser that wasn't logged in, to see what it would look like for them if they ...
Hi DoctorDada, thanks for joining the Community!
The image you saw in the first screenshot was an example of what file activity would look like if you were signed into your account.
It doesn't mean that those users were real or accessed the file.
Hope this helps to clarify matters!
Hi, did you create share link or did you share this file with certain people? If you create simple share link you friends could share it with other person. Everyone can see shared link if has the link-code. When you invite certain person only this person can view it. Maybe this is the reason of the strange activity. Ask your friends did they forward this link.
Hi Michał, I just moved the file to a folder in my local Dropbox folder and, when it synched, copied the Dropbox link and sent it to my friends. They definitely didn't forward the link to anyone. And, anyway, I saw those messages within a minute of the file being on Dropbox, so it would be VERY unlikely that two (unknown) people would have found the link and accessed the file that quickly. I believe that Dropbox is lying, that the file wasn't really downloaded and viewed; Dropbox just wanted me to upgrade my account. (In fact I uploaded 3 other files and they all show exactly the same “Activity”.)
Just now I did another experiment: I copied a 3-byte text file to a Dropbox folder, copied the link, opened it in a not-logged-in browser and this is what I saw:
“Viewed 5 hours ago”? I don’t think so!
This is very disappointing.
