You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

Forum Discussion

pfarbstein's avatar
pfarbstein
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Sharing access to anyone with link for entire folder

I'm hoping to share access to "anyone with the link" for a folder in dropbox and then link individual files within that folder to a spreadsheet. Right now, I have to share access to "anyone with the ...
  • Rich's avatar
    3 years ago

    pfarbstein wrote:

    I'm hoping to share access to "anyone with the link" for a folder in dropbox and then link individual files within that folder to a spreadsheet


    You won't be able to do that. With the way shared links work (and redirect), you can't use a link to a folder to link directly to the individual files within it. You can do that to get to the preview page for each file in the folder, but not for a direct (raw) link to the file. You'll need to create a link for each file.

About Create, upload, and share

Find help to solve issues with creating, uploading, and sharing files and folders in Dropbox. Get support and advice from the Dropbox Community.

Need more support

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X or Facebook.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!