You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Open shared links directly in native app
A few years have passed since this request and as a business this would save us allot of time and irritation. As a company we share daily hundreds of links to files via Microsoft Teams with each other. Now the situation is as follow: 1 link is shared 2 team member clicks on the link 3 browser opens the link to the file 4 user clicks on 'open in dropbox' button Ideal situation would be that admins and users have a File open preference, where links to files can directly open in the native apps: 1 link is shared 2 team member clicks on it and the file is synced and opened in the native app Microsoft Teams has a great solution to this problem for Office-applications, called File open preference, see screenshot. It would be great if Dropbox could also build this feature in it's Dropbox-apps.
Commercial use of audio streaming on Dropbox, are there any GDPR requirements?
Hello! I have 2 questions: I sell audiocourses in books and give the users access to the audiofile with a QR Code. After buying the book the user can scan the qr code with his phone and listen to the audios (the audio player directly starts). 1) Is it ok to use dropbox for this function? 2) Is there any data transfer happening from user side, if he access the audio? Does he needs to give permission regarding GDPR? Thank you for your kind support!
Shared links result in 400 error.
For some months now I am not able to share links since anyone who will open it will 9/10 times receive an error 400 message. Everytime I share these links I first test them in an incognito window and they work completely fine. It seems that after a while they simply stop working? Sometimes I will test a link a second time a couple of minutes later and despite working fine previously, they suddenly can't be opened. It is very annoying and I can't find a solution to this.Is it possible to see who created the link?
I gave my former attorney access to my dropbox so they could obtain and send my documents to opposing counsel. My former attorney sent dropbox links to opposing counsel. I want to find out if these links were to MY dropbox or if the former attorney moved the docs to their dropbox and sent links to THEIR copy. I have the URLs. I got another attorney and at some point (probably weeks later) deleted the links I created, assuming OC had the docs. Opposing counsel (OC) went to my new attorney and claimed they couldn't open the links and requested the documents all over again. Meanwhile, OC told my former atty the reason they didn't obtain the docs is because they simply delayed in obtaining them. I was billed almost $3,000 by my new atty for compiling the documents again. I'm trying to find out if the links my former atty sent were links to MY dropbox documents or if the links were to an account owned by my former atty. How can I find out if former atty linked to my dropbox or their own? Many thanks in advance for any help find out whose links were sent. I have a basic account now but I had signed up for DocSend free trial when links were sent.Dropbox shared links not opening for friends who don't have Dropbox
Here is a message from a test of a dropbox link sent to a friend, I am hearing from many friends (email link to video) that they are confused by all the messages, place download Dropbox, or they have to search to open my link. I am looking for a straight forward software , send a link and it opens on friend's computer by clicking on photo, instead of downloading,this and that. etc. I will cancel my subscription unless i learn a way to send a link to a friend (a friend who does not have dropbox downloaded. I just want them to click on link and it opens. see the message from my test send to a friend. They're probably opening it on their phone. I opened It on my laptop, and it went right to the video. I clicked on my phone, and it had 2 popups saying "Download App" or "Open in Browser" They don't know there is a second option where you can open it directly. Thought i'd let you know! [Removed as per Community Guidelines] Since you don’t have Dropbox on your machine, will you see how this link works, The Dropbox instructions say anyone should be able to just click on link and it opens, some friends claim they get message to open download Dropbox.
