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My public links are no longer working
All my public links are suddenly not working. I noticed that the previously copied link URL that I've given to people to access the file had "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com" as the first part of t...
Hey hypnocoach,
Thanks for getting in touch here!
Please note that public links will no longer function as of March 15, 2017 for Basic users and on September 1, 2017 for Plus and Dropbox for Business users. You can find more information here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/16.
Hope this helps you clarify! If there's anything else you need to ask, please let me know.
Kind regards,
JaneA
Why has the public folder functionality permanently stopped for basic Dropbox users ?
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
olivier w.1 wrote:
Why has the public folder functionality permanently stopped for basic Dropbox users ?
It's permanently stopping for all users. Basic first (which has already happened) and in September for Plus accounts. It's a deprecated feature, having been replaced by Share Links in October of 2012.
So apparently DropBox is ahead of schedule with disabling this functionality for PAYING users as well. As of 45 minutes ago, ALL of my Public files and existing Links are now broken. All the links are still intact and correct, but no HTML page will display content from my 'Public/Shared' folder.
I am a paying Plus subscriber, and have paid almost $200 for this "sharing" service (as you so aptly title it, Rich) and now I have been forced to find an immediate alternative to accomplish what DropBox should be doing until September (as a Plus subscriber).
I truly hope your company loses a ton of high-paying Clients over this ordeal; what used to be an intuitive and user-friendly product has turned into nothing more than finger pointing game of who should be hosting this or that, whose bandwidth is supplying the content, yada-yada-yada.- When did you send out mail to notify your users about this major change - I just went through my mail AND spam-filter and no mail from Dropbox regarding this.
This has costed us at least two working days to change all our links in webpages, mails and stylesheet references.
And for all I know you may change this again tomorrow without notifying your users. We are looking for alternatives to dropbox as I write this.
The problem with share links is that you can't simply copy a link and paste/send it via your e-mail. You have to send the link via dropbox window. Right ?
- Rich
olivier w.1 wrote:
The problem with share links is that you can't simply copy a link and paste/send it via your e-mail. You have to send the link via dropbox window. Right ?
Quite the opposite in fact. You have to copy the link and send it via your own email client. You can't send a share link through the Dropbox interface. When you invite a specific person to a file (sharing the file, not a link to the file) it will go through Dropbox, but a link is just copied and sent using any method you wish.When I copy/paste a Dropbox link in my e-mail client, and send it to someone who doesn't have Dropbox, the recipient always tells me the link doesn't work. Does the recipient have to be a dropbox user ? Or I don't do it properly ? When I want to send a file, I use right click then 6th option : copy dropbox link, then paste it in my e-mail.
