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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!
River wrote:
You just don't get it, do you? AS HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID - IF IT WAS JUST ABOUT ENDING SUPPORT FOR THE 'PUBLIC FOLDER' YOU WOULDN'T BE GETTING A FRACTION OF THIS GRIEF.
It's because you have not given one tiny reason why you're prepared to 'break' large sections of the internet, millions of links that are going to become dead, when it would only take a small bit of code to prevent this.
WHY? Tell us why you are going ahead with this Trump-like megalomania, and making enemies of a large section of your users?
WHY? We just want to know why. The longer you go on not telling us, the more we think everything you do and say is just so much BS.
Right. Here is one solution to the problem.
- First, admit that there IS a problem for many of your users, and for future consumers of content originally posted to forums using the direct links in Public folders
- Give your users notice - a few weeks should be enough - that their Public folders are to become 'read only'. That should give most of us time to clear out of the folder anything we don't want to keep as a live link
- On the due date, when everyone's Public folder is 'read only', grandfather all the links that have been generated from those folders, so that parts of the internet don't just "die" as you are currently prepared to see happen
- From that time onwards, the only links that can be generated will be the type of 'shared link' you want everyone to use.
Now, can you please give us ONE SINGLE GOOD REASON why this should not work?
YOU get what YOU want.
WE get the best of a bad job.
It's win-(almost) win ... instead of the anti-social unbusinesslike chaos you seem happy to visit on the world.
- Well FINALY a reply from DB support:
Thank you for your patience and for contacting Dropbox support.
As we continue to create new features that help you administer your team, we need to deprecate older features that function alongside our newer features. The Public folder is now a deprecated feature, and moving forward I'd recommend using shared links instead. Shared links provide similar functionality but can be used with any folder in your Dropbox. You can find more info here:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/167
You can also force shared links to download automatically, just like Public links. Check out this Help Center article for steps on how to do so:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/201
If you have further questions about this, feel free to reach back out to us and we will be happy to investigate further.
Regards,
Ciara
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I see your answer (canned response?)
It DOESNT address the issue raised
Web forum software, when using the [img]....[/img] codes , accepts the "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com......." format of current public folder links , but rejects the "https://www.dropbox.com......" format of current links from any other folder.
Tinkering about with the '=1' / '=0' at the end of the link does nothing to resolve this dilemma
Are you folks not cognisant of the workings of your rivals who have the ability to simply supply 'forum friendly' [img]....[/img] url links at the click of a mouse?
narikaa wrote:
You can also force shared links to download automatically, just like Public links. Check out this Help Center article for steps on how to do so:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/201Nice! At least direct download is possible with this, so it solves half of my problems. But the other thing is still a problem, that my app dowloaded from public ~750 files... and a full folder can't be shared, and also the relative paths are not visible, so the app don't know where to search for the files...
- Hardly solves most peoples problems!
Forum software wont countenance that format
& the small matter of millions of moribund existing links
- [[raw=1] HOW LONG DOES THIS FUNCTION WORK? AND ALL MY LINKS GET OUT AGAIN?
Hi.
That's the fear I have. I will work for several hours to change all my links so that after Dropbox unilaterally decides that it no longer works. I really hope this does not happen.
Regards
