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My public links are no longer working
All my public links are suddenly not working. I noticed that the previously copied link URL that I've given to people to access the file had "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com" as the first part of t...
Hey hypnocoach,
Thanks for getting in touch here!
Please note that public links will no longer function as of March 15, 2017 for Basic users and on September 1, 2017 for Plus and Dropbox for Business users. You can find more information here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/16.
Hope this helps you clarify! If there's anything else you need to ask, please let me know.
Kind regards,
JaneA
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
malphadour wrote:
Dropbox allowed us to simply share files with customers
And you still can, using a Share Link, which replaced the Public folder functionality in 2012.
We will not be paying you a penny until the direct link functionality is returned!!!
The ability to directly link to a file was not removed. You can do that with a Share Link buy simply changing the parameter at the end of the link.
Why you did it? It was so usefull to share some pic., videos, pdf, and other file in such simple way (public link). Why do we need all this dl=0/1 and raw=1 now? Will the public link a commersial option now, or what?
- Rich
Romout-GL wrote:
Why you did it?
Best guess... It was being abused, and it was never really intended for hosting files on webpages anyway. It was meant for sharing files with other people. If you want to host images on forums, blogs, etc., then you really should be using a web host or an image hosting service.
Will the public link a commersial option now, or what?Nope. Commercial accounts are losing the feature in September.
Drinking game: take a shot whenever a super user barges into a thread to offer excuses for this decision
>If you want to host images on forums, blogs, etc., then you really should be using a web host or an image hosting service.
My error for thinking a file hosting service could be used for, ya know, hosting files
- MarkIf you were a paid user Romout at the time the free users lost the feature you can continue to use it until Sept. after that its no longer available for anybody.
Why do they deem is acceptable to harm the many for the sake of the few? Plus all the linkrot makes me sad :(
