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ae2rigc
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Ending support of public folder

Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.   --------- As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    8 years ago
    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!
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cdgoin
Helpful | Level 7
8 years ago

You say your keeping the public box and its information but blocking the old links.

 

Thats unacceptable, if you kill public folders you destroy a million or more posts on forums across the internet. You make tons of them useless. MANY of the forums that we host pictures from your service are do not allow us to edit the links. So effectively you will kill years of information. Please at least keep the links to the images and such active. Lock the folder and keep the data that is there and the links that are there live for the benefit of the internet and community forums world wide.

 

90% of my posts on many car forums from opelgt.com to fiatspider.com to name a few will be useless and have no images. I also will not be able to edit the links to the important threads as I am not allowed to edit posts after 24 hours. If I have to redo and rebuild all my build threads it will take hundreds of hours and I will only be able to recover the "good ones" as there are too many to count. 

 

May I suggest a middle ground. LOCK the public folders down. Nothing in and nothing new to be edited. It will be secure that way. The information will simply be locked. The links will continue to work so no one needing this information will lose it. 

 

Changing the rules is fine, but deleting something millions have relied on ( and I mean everyone from the users to those that read our blogs, tech sites, etc.. ) is just a very poor idea. 

 

From the comments on post : 

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Don-t-kill-Public-folders/idi-p/198003#.WFPomQl4uGM.facebook

 

I am not alone in this. 

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