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Ending support of public folder
Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.
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As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
- LGM - the issue is that people are abusing it and causing issues for everybody by getting the Dropbox domains blacklisted which cause emails to fail and downloads to be blocked by firewalls etc.
In terms of changing the extension, sorry, no idea how you would do that!
I am in exact same position as narikka having used drop box for years using links for photos on review forums. No way can i waste the rest of my life redoing all the links to photos. Cheers dropbox you just screwed up about 5 years worth of post + reviews for no real reason.
Not at all happy you seriously need a rethink on this :-(
Well thank you Dropbox for changing the rules after the game started. It looks like come September 2017 I'll be dropping Dropbox since you no longer will let me have the Public Folder I signed up for when I subscribed many years ago. I have years of public links in thousands of posts to dozens of web forums that link to pictures and short videos in my public folder. With one broad arbitrary decission, and without asking your paying custoers how it will effect them, you've negated my only reason for being a Dropbox customer. And you have not provided any workable option for myself and the others on this forum who you have placed in the same boat. I can't begin to describe how angry I am right now for this brain dead decision you have forced down our throats.
Same here - we have 100s of links thoughout a few websites to content on Dropbox in the Public folder. Can you PLEASE not remove the public folder? Or at least let the existing links still function?
This could takes hours and hours of work, and we'd still leave some holes. Please Dropbox, reconsider or find another solution!
This is an awful stain on Droobox, I agree with the other posts, I have hundreds maybe thousands of links to the public folder. And customers, suppliers andcollaborators pass them on.
This is a good reason not to use cloud storage for professional people. Its ok as a toy for amateurs.
I need to control my business. It is not right that a cloud supplier should control my business by making arbitrary changes.
Do droobox realise the financial consequencies of this move on customers?? Our data is valuable to us. It is a terrible indictment on dropbox business values (or lack of)
rileyph wrote:
This is an awful stain on Droobox, I agree with the other posts, I have hundreds maybe thousands of links to the public folder. And customers, suppliers andcollaborators pass them on.....
Do droobox realise the financial consequencies of this move on customers?? Our data is valuable to us. It is a terrible indictment on dropbox business values (or lack of).
I agree complely, and I can't even begin to imagine how catastrohic this decision will be for individuals, professionals and businesses that have been actively using the public folder since there is NO feasible way to replace ALL the links created and shared by heavy users of the Public Folder.
This could have profound (and costly) business implications for many of Dropbox's Pro (professional) users, and I sincerely hope Dropbox will consider the terrible impact of this decision.
In the meantime, on a practical level, for those of us who do want to go ahead and begin proactively "fixing" all the links that Dropxbox will eventually break, I have a couple of questions:
> Based on a review of my "share link" options in my Dropbox folder, it looks like I can't even begin using the new standard "Copy Dropbox Link" option in my Public Folder, so there's no way for me to begin fixing the links without MOVING all my public files into another non-public folder.
Is this correct?
> If so, it looks like there are only 2 less-than-satisfactory options for users right now:
(1) MOVE all public files to a new, non-public folder (sacrificing your existing folder structure), generate new links for every previously public document, and then replace the old public links with the new shared link. (Obviously NOT feasible for heavy users of the Public Folder.)
(2) KEEP all public files in their current public location (in order to preserve the existing folder structure), and wait to generate new links until after the Public folder is made private (on 09.01.17). (This of course means there will be a potentially LONG period of downtime while we have to change all the broken links manually -- and this, again, is obviously NOT feasible for heavy users of the Public Folder.)
Is this correct, or am I missing something?
- Let's get organized and cancel these subscriptions
- One of the main reasons I subscribed to Dropbox was the easy use of public folder. I will be canceling my subscription to Dropbox if this decision is not changed.
- Honestly other services are cheaper than Dropbox. The only reason I stuck with it was because of the public folder.
- No doubt, my subscription will be cancelled. If I had known this, I would have never, ever purchased a membership. I have thousands of links out there and this is going to be a monumental job just to get things back to normal .... ON ANOTHER SERVER, NOT DROPBOX. If it ain't broke, dont fix it. this certainly will lead to a substantial drop in ongoing subscriptions like mine.
- We're trying (perhaps in vain) to get Dropbox to take notice.... Like our page and help us get them message to dropbox that as paying customers, we do not want to lose the Public Folder! :triumph:
https://www.facebook.com/Dropbox-dont-kill-public-folders-1757807227875969/
Fe wrote:
We're trying (perhaps in vain) to get Dropbox to take notice.... Like our page and help us get them message to dropbox that as paying customers, we do not want to lose the Public Folder! :triumph:
https://www.facebook.com/Dropbox-dont-kill-public-folders-1757807227875969/Plan of campaign:
1. "Like" the Facebook page above
2. Raise a ticket with Dropbox Customer "Support" about the Public folder
3. If you have a blog, write about this ridiculous 'breaking' of bits of the whole internet (broken links)
4. Be satirical and mocking - refer everywhere to "Dripbox" (or if you have better name, share it with us :) )
5. If you're a paid user and use the Public folder a lot, cancel your subscription - there are alternatives out there!
6. Don't stop campaigning until we either win, or cause Dripbox no end of hassle, embarrassment and notoriety
Can we do it? Yes we can!
Chris R. a écrit :
5. If you're a paid user and use the Public folder a lot, cancel your subscription - there are alternatives out there!
Can you enumerate them ?
For instance, I am currently dubious regarding MS/OneDrive that does not keep the picture's name in the generated Public Link making it difficult to batch-substitute link addresses in my Web Site !
To make a long story short, changing all occurences of :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28826553/folder1/pictureXXX.png
to :
https://1drv.ms/i/folder1/pictureXXX.png
would be a piece of cake,
but changing them *** ONE BY ONE *** to a link like :
https://1drv.ms/i/s!Al1QJkdmK-njktgb1KKlvg0MgyFHHHvkZg
is another story !
Eagerly waiting for your 'alternatives' ...
