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Obtain URLs for multiple files
Like many people, I need to upload multiple image files to our website (and other websites). At present, the standard DropBox capability is to generate a individual image file URLs (ie one at a time...
Yah - have since found that PhotoBucket has exactly this capability - select all of the files concerned, click "LINK" and it provides 4 different versions of the links (eg for emails, for website access, for ...) and copies the selected option to your Clipboard. Swop to Excel and it pasts multiple links into separate cells in a column. Takes all of less than 5 minutes.
I can now take that spreadsheet - which contains all of our new product information - and do a CSV import to our website. As part of the import, it pulls a copy of the image file from PhotoBucket and links it to the product listing ... the image now resident on and displayed from our webserver (or Amazon, eBay, retail clients, ...).
Of course ... it means I'm now using ***yet another bl**y program***. I really don't like having to have files scattered across DropBox, PhotoBucket, OneDrive, GoogleDrive, iCloud, .... all because you can't do the job properly with just one program. The fact that I can access many of these services at no cost is not relevant.
But thanks for the advice re a FEATURE request.
