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My images don't load on mobile
My images don't load on mobile when I visit my website that uses dropbox direct photo links. The desktop site works fine.
Hi all,
As you may have seen, this issue is now resolved and a fix was rolled out earlier this week 🎉
Let us know if you have any questions.
Emma
Grabbing the dropbox link for a public file gives this
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9u3ew2yvdwl3sx/Screen%20Shot%202021-03-07%20at%206.39.25%20PM.png?dl=0
Which can then be embedded in a forum or elsewhere by changing dl=0 to raw=1 like this
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9u3ew2yvdwl3sx/Screen%20Shot%202021-03-07%20at%206.39.25%20PM.png?raw=1
viewing that link now changes the url to
Wondering what to do in order to link to files properly?
hardreturn wrote:...
Wondering what to do in order to link to files properly?
Hi hardreturn,
You have done everything as should be and everything seems just fine. 😉 Is there some issue with the embedding? 🧐 About link change disturbing you, yes, that's normal. Dropbox perform multiple redirects to let viewer access to the actual file. When link is embedded theses redirects remain hidden, like the variant ending in "?dl=0" (the redirections are performed internally). The same should be when you embed the raw link somewhere. Isn't so? Of course, when you put the raw link on browser address line, all redirections get visible; you can see only the final result actually. That's it. You don't need to do anything more, but embed the link ending in "?raw=1".
Hope this clarify matter.
Appears the issue is on dropbox's side and specific to certain browsers.
See here for a kludge of a workaround https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-files-folders/My-images-don-t-load-on-mobile/m-p/502344/highlight/true#M193325
Dropbox can't expect us to change hundreds or thousands of links with this new syntax
the problem is that after 24 hours this:
will be something else..Dropbox did some changes without telling us and it seems that they dont care. Perhaps we should use google drive or One drive instead. Im struggling just with the formula for ?raw=1.
oh ya, less than 24hrs. what the hell.
any idea why that link no longer works @Здравкo ?
nothing changed at all on my end
hardreturn wrote:oh ya, less than 24hrs. what the hell.
any idea why that link no longer works @Здравкo ?
nothing changed at all on my end
Hi hardreturn,
🤔 I should confess, have no idea what you are talking about. The correct raw link in your OP still works! I just opened it and everything is fine. What exactly doesn't work any longer for you? 🧐
About the post you are referring to in your last post, It's the same what I have posted above; just take a look! That's never changed and not something new. It sounds like you have embed already redirected link. Is this exact? If so, normally such a link become invalid some time later. Such a link is a temporary link! Use the actual raw link, not something else, for embedding, as I mentioned before. It still works; check. 🙂 That's it.
Of course, there are ways such a link be invalidated either explicitly by you or somebody with appropriate access or implicitly by some action invalidating pointing content. According the info you provided no one seems actual in the particular case. Everything points to wrong link embedded.
Hope this shed additional light.
deco10, It's clearly seen, your link is redirected temporary link! Something that I already explained. Why you are trying alternatives??? 🤷 Just use the actual link. 😉
