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.
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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!
@Mark - Thanks but the behaviour is different.
@narikaa - I hadn't considered the loss of already posted conent, that is indeed an issue
Mark
Super User II
Super User III'm not sure how its different behaviour in the examples you gave?
You can also create any link using the format above to get a BB-type link by changing the www. to dl-dropbox...
You can also create any link using the format above to get a BB-type link by changing the www. to dl-dropbox...
- Why can't Dropbox preserve existing public links?
Then just impliment changes for new ones. This would save your users a lot of money, and reduce the anger felt towards dropbox.- Yes please preserve the existing ones.
I can handle new links by other means (albeit less conveniently) but it would be almost impossible to modify existing links on forums that are probably closed now.
If you have problems with specific links causing issues then get in touch with the person - they will understand and will fix the issues one by one.
But please at least keep those old links workingI depend on DropBox for my whole computing experience - share folders amongst my three computers.
This makes my computer wor=k simple - mynlatest file is always there wherever I am
I am a Pro user
As part of my contribution to the computing community I share images, screenshots etc via my public folder
I do conservation work that needs pwoplw to have access to my work - for this I use dropbox
I wish to continue all of this as part of my seemless DropBox Exerience
How much extra would you like me to pay to keep this status quo please DropBox - it is worth real money to me!
The Pro upgrade was a no brainer for me. I wuld pay more!!
Mark: "You can also create any link using the format above to get a BB-type link by changing the www. to dl-dropbox..."
You are right !
So maybe we just have to slightly modify the Dropbox finder extension to provide an extra menu entry "Public Share" which would create the share link following this syntax ?
- MarkLGM - 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!- One wonders how Photobucket 'et all' get away with providing 'BB code ' options to their shared links
Mark wrote:
I'm not sure how its different behaviour in the examples you gave?
You can also create any link using the format above to get a BB-type link by changing the www. to dl-dropbox...Firstly this means having to eidt EVERY time you create a link - something I do dozens of times a day. Secondly if it is so easy then why change it in the first place????? This move makes absolutely NO sense and has just annoyed your user base. I currently have a dropbox rep trying to sell us a pro account and he has jsut lost the sale because simple file lining is the single reason we use dropbox - making this function complicated (i.e having to MANUALLY edit every link we create) is utter stupidity and a step backwards - how is that usefull??
- I do not understand the Dropbox owners. Every comment made in this forum makes sense. I too have thousands of links to images on BB's. This is a nightmare.
No single need to continue my Pro subscription. Let's cancel!- I wonder if they actually care? I'm still livid about this. Yes they can change what they want but to break all existing links is quite simply, unprofessional, disgusting and totally unacceptable!
Hi- I am a Pro user and currently use the DropBox Public Folder as a home for about 20 pictures which rotate in the header of my blog. The Blogger widget has code that randomly chooses a header picture to display from my Public Folder.
Currently the links look like this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/xxxxxxxx/blah%20blah%20blah%20900
It's not clear to me what happens on Sept 1 2017. Do the links change?
I copied the pix to a new folder in my DropBox root directory and called it "BlogHeaders".
The links now look like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxxxxxxxxxxx/blah%20blah%20blah%20900.jpg?dl=0
I was going to change the links in the widget code, but I saw a comment somewhere that suggested that Blogger will not be able to access these pix because of the "www.dropbox.com" format (instead of the "dl.dropboxusercontent.com" format)
Can I just switch the reference link in the blogger widget and substitute the dl.dropboxusercontent prefix for the www.dropbox.com (even though the I cannot change the link info itself)?
Not sure what to do?
- Rich
kenyadoc wrote:
It's not clear to me what happens on Sept 1 2017. Do the links change?
No, they will stop working completely.
I copied the pix to a new folder in my DropBox root directory and called it "BlogHeaders".The links now look like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxxxxxxxxxxx/blah%20blah%20blah%20900.jpg?dl=0
Change the ?dl=1 at the end of the link to ?raw=1.
Can I just switch the reference link in the blogger widget and substitute the dl.dropboxusercontent prefix for the www.dropbox.com (even though the I cannot change the link info itself)?
You need to create new share links to each image and change the end of the link as described above, then use those new links in the widget.
In the link I shared it says "?dl=0" at the end
But you say change from "?dl=1" to "?raw=1"
Should it be "?raw=0"
Sorry to be dense. I'm not a coder.
