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aRealHumanBartender
8 months agoHelpful | Level 6
Force render issues (raw=1) and shared links won't work for hosting.
images were perfect on all browsers until yesterday afternoon - what is the fix or is this a dropbox issue?
- 8 months ago
We are rolling out a fix for issues with raw=1 and dl=1 links that started recently. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working.
Stratoman
8 months agoHelpful | Level 7
Same here
- aRealHumanBartender8 months agoHelpful | Level 6so irritating and I’m simply going to have to use another host bc this is unacceptable
- H96Max8 months agoExplorer | Level 404/05/2024
Not able to download the files from Shared Links.
Usually the shared link ends with dl=0 by changing it to dl=1 downloads the file directly, but from today its not downloading!!
I know many of them are facing this situation.
Anybody know what is the reason behind it ?
😞- Stratoman8 months agoHelpful | Level 7
Same here ....
- Mark8 months agoSuper User II
aRealHumanBartender wrote:
so irritating and I’m simply going to have to use another host bc this is unacceptableThat is exactly the issue - Dropbox isnt, and never ever has been, a web hosting tool.
They have (on quite a few occasions now) done things which have stopped things rendering on websites and response has always been the same - Dropbox isnt a hosting platform, its a tool to collaborate and share
- torvat-ITA8 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Good morning, I do agree with the statement that dropbox isn't a hosting platform. Then remove this https://help.dropbox.com/it-it/share/force-download page.
Really, if it is not intended to allow and manage rendering and download of contents (as a collaboration tool should do, on my personal point of view) then it is ok. I change platform and will not renew my subscription. i don't think Dropbox will care about it. But inform users that this is not allowed and remove pages that explain how to do this.Have a nice day 🙂
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