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Forum Discussion
remove all shared links
Hi, I have many links in the links-list. Way to many. I take it that the files linked are accessible for anyone with the link. I want all these links removed with one command. It is too many to do it manually for each one.
Thanks
Please be careful as it will delete all your shared links! You have been warned! Works in Chrome (61.0.3163.100) maybe firefox and internet explorer but no links to test =) Open the browser's console window (right click anywhere and select inspect or control+shift+i) while in the shared links page. Paste the following code in the console command line, click enter and it will delete all shared links.
Due to secure http loading jquery (as suggested by other post) does not work, so this option is fine with vanilla javascript. The script below simulates consecutive mouse clicks: 1. click the three dot button next to the link, 2. click the delete link button in the drop down, 3. click the delete link buttin in the pop up dialog box. Note that it will take a minute to execute all those but in the end the list shall be clear. Hope it save you some trouble... and again be careful
for( var index = 0; index < 1000; index++ )
{
var dots = document.getElementById("bubbleDropdownTarget-" + index );
if( dots == undefined ) continue;
dots.click( );
document.getElementsByClassName( "bubble-menu-item" )[0].click( );
document.getElementsByClassName( "button-primary dbmodal-button" )[0].click( );
}
- Rich
Super User II
Could there be an option to save screenshots to the dropbox folder but not creating links?
Are you certain that feature doesn't already exist? I can't speak for Mac, but on Windows a link is only created when holding CTRL while taking the screenshot. Take it without that modifier key and it's just a screenshot without a link.
Hi, same here, too many links created by screenshots on mac. I like to share my screenshots with my other computers/phone, I don't want to share them to the world. I'd prefer to choose the screenshot I eventually want to share like any other file. Could there be an option to save screenshots to the dropbox folder but not creating links? With the new link functionality that follows files if you move or rename them, the trick of moving screenshots to stop sharing doesn't work anymore! Thanks in advance.
Conclusion: managing the rat's nest of shared links is an organizational challenge.
And it makes a lot of additional work for users!
Renaming no longer invalidates links
I moved all Screenshot files (430) outside the Dropbox directory. They disappeared from dropbox.com/links. Then I moved them back. They reappeared and were accessible.
I moved the Screenshot files outside the Dropbox directory (they disappeared) and then to another Dropbox directory. They reappeared in the dropbox.com/links.
I moved a Screenshot file outside the Dropbox directory, renamed the file and moved the file back to another Dropbox directory. The file reappeared in the dropbox.com/links.
I renamed the file, modified the time, edited the file and moved it in a new directory. The new file was visible in the dropbox.com/links and accessible.
Conclusion: managing the rat's nest of shared links is an organizational challenge.
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- Rich
Renaming no longer invalidates liniks?! How are users supposed to know this?
Users that this affects (namely, DfB users) were notified via email.
Thanks Rick, I know how to remove links that I created myself. What I as a team admin need though ist the ability to remove ANY existing links from a given file – not just the ones create by me.
The only way to do this right now ist to dig through the activity feed in the admin panel. Tedious at best.
As to how users are supposed to know about this, you’ll have to ask the Dropbox team … ;)
I know it from the newsletter which I have subscribed to.Renaming no longer invalidates liniks?! How are users supposed to know this?
Go here https://www.dropbox.com/links/your_links
and "x" any links not needed.
I totally +1 Koen’s request.
Not being able to see and manipulate sharing links on a per file basis is not very admin-like to begin with.
Until recently we circumvented this by just adding a suffix to the file name which resulted in the link being removed. Until last week that is, when Dropbox rolled out the new feature of links sticking even if you rename or move the file.
While this is a very nice and intelligent feature it killed the only option to easily and reliably make a file inaccessible without actually deleting it.
Deleting files is not an option for us. We have to keep everything we delivered at any given time.
Also renaming folders – let alone the root folder – is very clearly a no go.- Rich
In stead of clicking sharing button in each file, is there any function to make all 1,000 URL links at a time?
No, you can't create share links en masse. If you have a Public folder (deprecated feature that is no longer added to newer accounts) and all the files are within it, then the link structure is the same for all files in Public. Only the file name and any sub-folder name would be different. In that scenario you can create a link to one file, and then just change the file name in the link for all the others.
If you are trying to build a web site, you should know that dropbox is not intended for web hosting. Using those links could work, but you might run into the download limit for your account.
No, I don't think there is a way to make 1000 links at one time. If there were, how would you use them?
