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Shorten link not working
Hi there! All of a sudden, the shorten link feature in my public folder is not working - not that the link won't work - it won't shorten it anymore.
Any help would be appreciated - thanks!
- The shorten link functionality in Dropbox has been deprecated and will likely not return. They have been heading in this direction for a while now, having first started removing the feature from other parts of Dropbox a couple years ago. This was one of the last remaining locations where it still functioned.
As Olivia stated, you will want to look at other services that provide that functionality. Bit.ly and Goo.gl are among the most popular.
This shorten link feature in my public folder not working is a very big disappointment, why [censored] did the developers mess with a feature that was perfectly fine all these years which many DB users have relied upon? I have a ton of links with various collaborators and now nothing is working and we can't paste more links to files in Public folder! [censored], [censored], [censored]! I see in my CCleaner that DropBox forced an update on September 22, 2016 - that was when it all stopped working - and I have been looking for other problems, but there are no other problems, it is DropBox itself. I work in software, and developers are always [censored] everything up...always! Fix it already people at Dropbox! Please, we are many who depend on this feature!
