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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!
This I fear is disasterous news for anyone (like me) who has used the public folder links to post images on web forums.
Web forum software, it seems when using the [img]....[/img] codes , accepts the "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com......." format of current public folder links , but rejects the "https://www.dropbox.com......" format of current links from any other folder.
This means the horrible prospect of not only the loss of many years of input across multi forums (with the upcoming negation of 'old' links to the Public Folder) but the need to seek out alternate on-line storage for the future!
This is exactly my issue, I keep my school's blog and there's years of materials posted in it, that use public links. I can't even start imagining how much it'll take me to change all that!
I am with everyone else here, and think this is deploreable. I have over 600 images shared on a blog site, and am going to have to change all of them. I just reluctantly signed up to Photobucket (with much nervousness, as that site is very unstable from what I've seen).
But now that I know I've got till September, I will take a bit of time and find another.
But it's bugging the heck out of me that I've got to go through my thread and change the links on 600 + images, and I can't change the links for anyone who quoted my pics, so the images in their quotes will dissappear, and their quotes will become meaningless........
Shame, SHAME on Dropbox for doing this! BYE.
While I didn't use the public folder extensively as others here and am can see pros and cons of deprecating it -
- I think its ridiculous they don't maintain the existing links which should be a trivial operation
- i.e. they could make the 'Public' folder private and translate all the existing links to new shared links.
- I think any deprecation of public folder in favour of shared folders, the shared folder should be as easy to use - which in my opinion it currently isn't it
- I have shared items before outside of the public folder and the people I shared with got incredibly confused about having to sign up for dropbox. Its basically unworkable.
- Note - I can see can a pro in deprecating it therebye having one consistent interface .... if that interface was as good!
Since this change was announced I have gradually been moving anything for which I need links from Dropbox to Google Drive's free storage and got new links for my websites. Even if they change their mind and change the current Public links to the 'Shared Link' automatically, it still means anyone without a DB account who is using an iPad/iPhone (as well as many others) cannot view the links without being pestered to get a DB account.
Fortunately I only have a couple hundred links to amend but I can understand how angry those with thousands must be and especially paid-up users. For those with many links on forums can I suggest you ask the forum managers to place a prominent note about this problem on the front page of the forum and suggest to forum members that if they find a dead link they contact the poster of link directly for new link? Just a suggestion that would reduce your workload.....
- I think its ridiculous they don't maintain the existing links which should be a trivial operation
