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ae2rigc
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Ending support of public folder

Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.   --------- As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    8 years ago
    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!
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Mark
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This isnt exactly new news I'm afraid.

And it was replaced a LONG LONG time ago by shared links which are pretty much Public Links BUT allowed in any location within your Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/help/167 (as per the link in the email)

 

Edit: apologies I have received my email now. I believed initially this was a change to the way HTML files were rendered not that they were going completely. 

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Edvard
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

Bump.

Can we not just move the shared files/folders to a new location outside Public?

https://www.dropbox.com/help/9194

"Previously, if you renamed or moved a file or folder, any shared links to them would "break." This means that anyone clicking the links would see an error message. Now, you can reorganize and rename files and folders in your Dropbox without impacting any shared links to them."

Edvard

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