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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!
Unfortunately, same here... so frustrated and dissapointed..
Sorry if this has been covered. I've gone through all 500+ messages in the past, but right now I'm in a panic.
I'm a "basic" user and today I lost all links to dropbox files in my no longer "Public" folder. I thought I had a method to fix them (dl=1) but I found it only works on my machine. So ...
Is there a way to have public links from a web page (google sites) that don't take the user to the dropbox site?
The dl=1 thing works but only on my machines apparently. I saw something about "raw=1" but I'm not sure how it's used.
If there is a post that describes this please let me know.
I have a bunch of people looking for their files!
Thanks!
John
- Rich
Super User II
bHogan wrote:
I saw something about "raw=1" but I'm not sure how it's used.
?dl=0 takes you to the Dropbox preview page.
?dl=1 forces a file to download (even an image file).
?raw=1 forces the file to render in the browser, like the image below, which is coming from a share link in my Dropbox account.
This is a JOKE! Why remove all existing links? Set to lose a lot of users now, ridiculous idea!
- I just found out that the most useful aspect of DB is no longer supported,I'll never understand why these tech companies just keep shooting themselves in the foot and pissing users off. Removing existing links was just rude!
I came here from Photobucket, time to move on...
Thank you Rich,
Maybe the user I'm working with is clicking the wrong link. I have dl=1 on a PDF and he reports that it is not working.
If I shutdown dropbox on my machine and the link works, can I assume it will work for other users?
(If ?dl=1 and ?raw=1 work I will be very happy.)
bHogan a écrit :If I shutdown dropbox on my machine and the link works, can I assume it will work for other users?
You may also check it in a private navigation tab ... that'll give you a similar rendering as out on the web !
I'm finding that even dl=1 works when you enclose it in BBCode on a forum
It will
The matter of contention is that there is no methodology for resurrecting the multi millions of arbitarily broken links already out there. Or of course any damned input or response from the buffoons who caused it.
