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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 absolutely agree with the previous commenters. A lot of people used public links to post images to forums, mostly small ones, which do not provide built-in storage for images and attachments.
On our local community forum I've posted hundreds of such images and advised other users to use Dropbox for this purpose as well. This content is still useful and the loss of it will be a major problem for all our users.
I think Dropbox should rethink this decision and at least preserve existing public links as is. Otherwise, on 09/01/2017, many communities on the web will suffer from losing years of users' contributions.
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIJust as an aside this news is about 4 months old now (not sure why its suddenly gone out on emails to some again today) and as such they've staunchly refused to change it - same as when they dropped XP support etc.
I know it isnt what people want to hear, sorry, but would rather you had the right information now - that is this wont change so you need to start thinking about ways to mitigate the damage now.
I know it isnt what people want to hear, sorry, but would rather you had the right information now - that is this wont change so you need to start thinking about ways to mitigate the damage now.
- The news from 4 months ago said that HTML pages can no longer be served via the public folder, it said absolutely NOTHING about the public folder going away - I have thought this would mean you'd simply refuse to serve such files or serve it with the application/octet-stream mimetype.
I find this ironic because dropbox at some stage auto-generated an index.html file for each level in the public folder.
IMO this is a very nasty and unwelcome bait and switch.
I also think your "new share page" is complete and utter aids.
I have no need for the forced community/social media aspect of it, and the last time someone linked me to a tiny little webm using it, it played back at 5 SPF (that is seconds per frame) because the page itself for whatever reason added so much overhead. I received the email with this news today for the first time.
- This explains when the function stopped working some time ago they were testing how it would be and it was terrible I will cancel my subscription
Alexis G.1Super User
Mark wrote:
Just as an aside this news is about 4 months old now (not sure why its suddenly gone out on emails to some again today) and as such they've staunchly refused to change it - same as when they dropped XP support etc.
I know it isnt what people want to hear, sorry, but would rather you had the right information now - that is this wont change so you need to start thinking about ways to mitigate the damage now.Mitigate damage? How?. I have 500+ images shared in public forums thanks to Public Folders in Dropbox. I absolutely agree with previous commenters. I don't have hours or days locating all my posts in all the forums where I have subscriptions and posts.
It's a shame Dropbox will remove such a great function of the application. Not a good thing for sure.
- Obviously Mark agrees with Dropbox telling their users to just "FOXTROT OSCAR"
I wonder how much he is being paid?Seems many don't appreciate Dropbox telling them to "Foxtrot Oscar" regarding Public folders. Looks like there will be a bunch of users tellin Dropbox itself to "Foxtrot Oscar and die". I agree with the prediction Dropbox will be out of business within 2 years.
Well that's if for me. I'm outta here. What a shame. I have links to legal audio files of lectures that I share widely out of my public folder. In Facebook there has always been an option to share the links from within groups. What do I do now? Does anyone have a suggestion for another service that allows public sharing of files as Dropbox did and is now about not to do. As soon as this is implemented I have to migrate and I will be ending my Dropbox subscription.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Toby
This has really screwed me over. I have been blogging for a few years now and used the links in my public folder for MP3's.
I will have to do years of work to get this resolved. Thanks, Dropbox. I was considering going to Pro but there is little or no point now.
Need to move to someone who will allow me to do this.
Mark a écrit :
I know it isnt what people want to hear, sorry, but would rather you had the right information now - that is this wont change so you need to start thinking about ways to mitigate the damage now.I've been using dropbox hosting for years.
It was great service, and I used it for free since I didn't need any "pro" feature so I should not complain.
Let's find a workaround.
(Unfortunately Dropbox doesn't seem to use the Automation and Services like it should .. I can't find a way to create an automated "Create public link" service for the moment .. will keep looking into this tomorrow).
Hello,
I appreciate the email letting me know I have eight or nine months to get my ducks in a row.
What I'm confused about is: how will I post photos on such sites as Blogger? To date, I have to have the photos in my "Public" folder. No other folder will work (at least not that I'm aware of).
Is there a different way to share photos on blogging sites...? I'd appreciate any link, tutorial, help.
Thanks much! :)Ted
