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Error 500 when trying open shared links
Is this genuinely fixed? Now when I visit links to individual files—folders seem to work fine and these are not links I tried when the site was down—the file preview pops up as expected and then is a...
Why am I getting this message
"Something went wrong. Don`t worry, your files are still safe and the Dropbox team has been notified...."
when I try to open link to an mp4 file, which used to work a few days ago?
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi OllieMi, thanks for messaging the Community!
Is this a shared link that you created from your account, or a shared link that someone else created?
This will help me to assist further!
Yes, I created it.
Can you help?
- Jay
No worries, let's try to solve this together.
Are you only getting errors for this shared link, or for any other new shared links on your account?
Is the link to a file or folder on your account?
Hi Jay,
Thanks for the message and help.
This is the eg. of a link to a mp4 file that used to work
[Removed as per Community Guidelines]
but now none of links that I create by setting SHARE option to mp4 works. And I tried it in different folders.
But if I use a link to e.g. PDF file, then it will open with no problem.
I thought that my space limit was too small, so I deleted a number of large mp4 videos but this didn't help either.
So I am in the dark as to what happened?
Rgds
Ollie
Hi Jay,
I was surprised to see so many people having the same problem.
So is Dropbox really "doing" something about it, as the error message stated?
Rgds
Ollie
