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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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mklass
New member | Level 2

This is terrible. 7 years of links. True I was a free user, but with 11gb earned that is quite a few people that created accounts from me and who know how many people they invited. By the way, the "d=0" changed to "d=1" works. Just tried it. I guess I'll do that for the short term.

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shileyd
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago
mklass wrote:

This is terrible. 7 years of links. True I was a free user, but with 11gb earned that is quite a few people that created accounts from me and who know how many people they invited. By the way, the "d=0" changed to "d=1" works. Just tried it. I guess I'll do that for the short term.

Well, as of today d=0 changed to d=1 does not work.  I tried it about a month ago just to confirm that I would have a fall back position, but either Dropbox has not finished whatever they are doing, or they have finally screwed us royally!

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    8 years ago
    shileyd wrote:

    Well, as of today d=0 changed to d=1 does not work.

    That's not true. Changing a link to ?dl=1 (or ?raw=1) still works just fine. I just tested it with a half dozen files across multiple browsers. It's fine.

    • verstaerker's avatar
      verstaerker
      Helpful | Level 5
      8 years ago

      my old links still work

      • Rich's avatar
        Rich
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        8 years ago
        verstaerker wrote:

        my old links still work

        The feature hasn't been turned off yet. March 15, 2017 for Basic accounts, and September 1, 2017 for Pro, Plus and Business accounts.

    • jigglywiggly j.'s avatar
      jigglywiggly j.
      Helpful | Level 6
      8 years ago
      Are they going to get rid of the ?raw=1
      • Mark's avatar
        Mark
        Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
        8 years ago
        As long as the links are in Shared Link format (i.e. not in the Public folder) then ?raw=1 will work fine.

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