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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!
I am extremely disappointed and angry at the decision to remove the Public folder abilities. I have, over the years, set up many dozens and dozens of links to images posted in blogs and other such locations using the Public folder. To find that these are suddenly going to become invalid is incredibly frustrating, particularly since many of them will be impossible to fix. Even those in the locations that I have easy access would take an impossible amout of time to fix. What a stupid idea.
This is an outrageous violation of your service to your loyal customers. You are removing a procedure that has been in place for years as an integral and trusted tool.
I am NOT impressed.
I'm a lowly school teacher who for over five years have used the Public Folder to host thousands of links to homework assignments on numerous web pages for all my classes. Moreover, as the legislative chair for a state-wide professional organization in Florida, I've done the same on a number of blogs for our members. Like others who have expressed frustration with this news, I can't see how there is ANY way that I can easily repair the damage that will take place next September. I was debating whether or not to take an early retirement from teaching this year and I think this news has sealed my fate. I can't imagine being able to recreate the thousands of hyperlinks I've made over the years to my documents and I expressly purchased DROPBOX PRO to be able to add ALL of my material which I've collected over the last twenty years for the very purpose of easily sharing them with colleagues and students.
Please do NOT break faith with your customers over this idea! And, if things are so easily done with your newer and more improved features, I suggest you upload some files to YOU-TUBE illustrating how easily PUBLIC FOLDER contents can be now shared without having to RELINK all the files. For your tens of thousands of non-techies, this would be the least you could do to allay our fears.
Jack Bovee
