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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!
Ross D.2 wrote:pardon me for not reading 44 pages of messages to get the answer...but it seems there may be ways to post direct links of images in blogs/forums but I can't find a simple description of how.
I hope this is reliable and someone will come online and correct me if not...
Right click any file in your Dropbox and Copy Dropbox Link. When you paste that into a forum you will see the url ends 'dl=0'. Just change that to 'dl=1' and the image should then appear inline without the viewer having to go to Dropbox website to fetch it.
It is much more comfortable to have a public folder to be honest than selecting links, changing the end and pasting in my e-mail.
I do not see the need to open a browser to download an attachment from my thunderbird email.
That is why I closed a paid dropbox account from another person in my company a couple of years ago, and that is why I will switch to owncloud if this decision goes on in September.
About the android app, is getting worst and worst you need a few clicks to open a .pdf file or an .odt with your favourite program instead of the one that dropbox has.
Not listening to your customers is not a very good policy.
