You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

Forum Discussion

ae2rigc's avatar
ae2rigc
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Ending support of public folder

Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.   --------- As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
Share
  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    9 years ago
    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!
WayneMcK's avatar
WayneMcK
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Public folder deactivated???  Oh no!  All the QR codes I have given to my past students are going to stop working.  All the memories I have shared with them through images and videos as well as work samples that they can only access through these QR codes will be lost to them forever.  I have no way of contacting these past students.

 
Very disappointing that this is being stripped away for no real reason!!!
 
 
Wayne
  • Ambientguitar's avatar
    Ambientguitar
    New member | Level 2
    9 years ago

    I am guessing they (Dropbox)  are being paid to do this.i.e. This now makes it impossible to share copyrighted material because if someone does, then whoever shares it would have to share the username and password. Which, I suppose,  makes it easy to pinpoint who shared what and when and no denying it. And yes I am a conspiracy theorist lol!

    • Hirato's avatar
      Hirato
      Helpful | Level 5
      9 years ago

      Ambientguitar wrote:

      I am guessing they (Dropbox)  are being paid to do this.i.e. This now makes it impossible to share copyrighted material because if someone does, then whoever shares it would have to share the username and password. Which, I suppose,  makes it easy to pinpoint who shared what and when and no denying it. And yes I am a conspiracy theorist lol!

      The old public links contained the user ID in the URL, and those would be associated with a single person.
      And the awful new shared links, despite using a different mechanism, are similarly tied to a single person's account.
       
      Nothing really changes in respect to copyright infringers here, though with the awful new system, it is I imagine, much easier for dropbox to conclusively assess which other users have accessed the file.

About Create, upload, and share

Find help to solve issues with creating, uploading, and sharing files and folders in Dropbox. Get support and advice from the Dropbox Community.

Need more support

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X or Facebook.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!