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silverpan's avatar
silverpan
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Automate Dropbox Transfer

Hello,

Is there any feature in the pipeline which will allow a dropbox transfer link to be automatically created when a new file or subfolder is added to a folder in dropbox?

 

We manually send out many transfers to our clients each day (we are a photographic lab sending out scanned film images to customers, who do not have dropbox accounts) - manually uploading each folder of images with the desktop dropbox app is very time consuming, and any new feature to automate this would help us save time.

 

Thanks


  • silverpan wrote:

    Is there any feature in the pipeline which will allow a dropbox transfer link to be automatically created when a new file or subfolder is added to a folder in dropbox?


    Dropbox rarely discuss their roadmap until a feature is ready for release. At the moment, there's no way to automate the Transfer feature, and there's no API available for it.

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

    silverpan wrote:

    Is there any feature in the pipeline which will allow a dropbox transfer link to be automatically created when a new file or subfolder is added to a folder in dropbox?


    Dropbox rarely discuss their roadmap until a feature is ready for release. At the moment, there's no way to automate the Transfer feature, and there's no API available for it.

    • Dalton1's avatar
      Dalton1
      Explorer | Level 4

      I used it inadvertently (not the automated part) but this seems way too easy to activate. I found out when I was notified that some trial document links EXPIRED two days before I knew it! Good **bleep** thing it's not actually in trial yet! 

       

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