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ae2rigc
New member | Level 2
8 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...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    8 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!
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Scorpion66
New member | Level 2

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 :-(

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GuidoDockx
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

As already indicated by so many others, this is an absolute desaster.

We spend 4 years making 100s of documents with 1000s of internal and external links. Whenever a user reads something of his interest, he just has to click on the word and the relevant document will open. We even dare to say no website is needed anymore.

We already send a request to the support team but the only answer we got was an "auto-reply" which looks at first glance sympathic and constructive but basically is the exact opposite.

Although we don't used normally the word "begging" in our vocabulary, we actually begged the Dropbox-team to reconsider and keep the public folder as it is, at least for the actual users. Make it eventually impossible to use it by someone who's thinking starting doning so in the future. I would like to repait here this scream for common sence and understanding!!

If not, it'll take us months of work to recreate and rewrite everything. I'm convinced many other, up to now very loyal, users will have the same gigantic problem. Once again, do NOT implement this dramatic action!!

Best regards,

Guido

 

 

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