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Forum Discussion
Dropbox Public Folder
I understand that the current sharing functionality of the Public folder will change on or about March 15, 2017; my question is: will the NAME of the Public folder change on or about March 15, or wil...
- It will still be called Public, however, all links within it will cease to work.
I have problem. My public folder can not share to all people. Earth logo on folder disappear. I have to fix this? // Thank you
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIYou cant.
The Public folder has been depreciated for free users now: https://www.dropbox.com/help/16
The Public folder has been depreciated for free users now: https://www.dropbox.com/help/16
Deprecated?? It's the thousands of users of forums and other internet sites that are deprecating Dropbox when they try to look at a diagram like this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/54783344/pertronix%20mod%20with%20switchgear%20bypass.jpg
By the way:
In general English usage, the infinitive "to deprecate" means "to express disapproval of (something)". It derives from the Latin verb deprecare, meaning "to ward off (a disaster) by prayer". In current usage, for one to state that a feature is deprecated is merely a recommendation against using it.I was apalled to have the public folder taken out from under me. I had numerous important photos posted inside threads on many forums which I belong too. I was just about ready to subscribe to Dropbox for all my storage needs when I received notice they made this terrible decision. I decided against doing so because this set off an uncomfortable signal that the company is making irrational moves which to me questions their business longevity.
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Bad move Dropbox because you lost my business. I've moved to OneDrive!
- MarkIf you had paid Igor you would still have the service - and thats exactly the issue. Too many people HAVENT paid to make the service viable.
Also, please note theres no need to be grotesque about it.
- Rich
Their use of the word applies because the Public folder was deprecated in October 2012 when Share Links replaced the functionality. From that point forward, new accounts no longer received Public folder, and only Pro or Business accounts could still create one. The feature was deprecated.
As of March 15, 2017, the feature is no longer deprecated; it's simply gone for Basic users. It will be gone for Plus and Business users in September of this year.
With the loss of the Public folder's benefits (I pay for Dropbox Pro!) I have a major problem. I use the Public oder to upload score sheets from car shows I run. I then publish links to these score sheets on my web site for attendees to see their's and other's sheets. Obviously I can't name hundreds of people to each individual file for sharing so how dos I set a folder and it's contents so that a simple link to any file will allow anyone to see it, in other words like it was the Public folder.
This loss of the public folder is a very bad thing by the way, why not just prevent people from using it to host web sites and leave the rest alone?
- MarkLeo, you can do exactly the same with Shared links.
Simply get a link to whatever folder the results are in, share that out and when people click on it they can go to whatever file/s they want within the folder.
https://www.dropbox.com/help/167
Also. Just to keep things in one place I'm going to close this thread. For any other questions/comments please see the larger Public Folder thread over at https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Sharing-and-collaboration/Ending-support-of-public-folder/m-p/197906#M11718
