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Eric O.'s avatar
Eric O.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Upload to cloud directly from a url?

The ability to drop a file directly from a public file server to dropbox cloud storage folder. This would eliminate the need to download the file locally and then upload to sync the file. This woul...
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Mark's avatar
Mark
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10 years ago

Rick - that is something Youtube would probably need to do, after all it is THERE site that would need to be edited to allow it.

And really, are google likely to allow easy features like that from there biggest competitor?

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