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Copy public link is not working on dropbox.com
Hi I've been using that COPY PUBLIC LINK from dropbox.com for years and at first it used to actually copy it to the windows copy buffer as it should. Over the past couple of months it would pop the...
Mohammed L.1 wrote:
The shortening feature is no longer working.
The shorten link function has been removed from Dropbox. This has been slowly happening for the last couple of years as the feature was removed from various parts of the service. If you would like to continue to shorten any of your links, you will want to look for services that focus specifically on providing that feature, such as bit.ly or goo.gl.
Oscar Y. wrote:
I got this problem today and it is not working now. Do you have any idea about what is going on?
It seems to be working fine here. Try clearing your browser's cache/browsing history and try again, or try another browser.
Copy Public Link
So I know I am posting a lot but there is a work around but it involves a bit more typing.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/*******/
from there you select the folders all the way down to the item you want. The *'s represent my dropbox user id you would have yours there.
So for example without being able to COPY this link I can share it by typing in how to get to it in my drop box.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77802144/bug1.png
So this image was in my public folder, if I had it in a folder in my public it would look more like this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77802144/pics/opgoals.png
I know this is not the feature we like to use but this is a work around until they fix it?
