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
Feedback to enhanced the sharing capabilities on Dropbox.
Feature Request: Enhanced Sharing Capabilities on Dropbox
1. Multiple Share Links with Independent Settings and Permissions
Request: The ability to create separate share links for the same file...
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi there document-signing-cohive - thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts on this with us.
When it comes to your first point, I wanted to mention that Dropbox is moving to an updated shared link architecture where links are based on content rather than on users. View-only and edit links are different. You‘re unable to change a view-only link into an edit link or vice versa. For the time being, to give different permissions to different people, perhaps you can have two copies of the same items (one for view-only permissions and one for edit ones).
In regards to your second point, have you considered using the Dropbox Transfer feature instead? Note that the Activity log on team accounts (available to team admins) might also help with what you had in mind.
As for your last point, you could share a link to a folder (where the files you'd be updating will be) instead.
I hope this helps a tad and please let us know if you have anything else to add.
PS: For future reference, note that you can use these tips to post your feature requests in the Ideas area.
Hi Walter - These are all exciting replies and I will use them, but I have a slightly different question. I have a directory in my dropbox of current R code which when I run generates a large number of reports. Sometimes when I am optimizing the code I run it repeatedly resulting an the production of additional temporary files (generally with the same names). It seems like a waste to go through this continuous update, delete, repeat (which slows down the computer it seems) but I don't see any way around it. Is there an approach I should be using for directories that may hold often temporary files? (Plus the question about "delete everywhere" everytime )? (maybe if I don't manually delete but just update the "delete everywhere" doesn't happen?)
