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Hello, I am a Dropbox business admin that shares a lot of links with people outside of my organization. I'm not sure when it happened but as some point the default for sharing switched from "View...
What @torbachkristensen said.
And yes, I was confused about this being a file issue at one time.
It is about folders. It certainly shouldn't allow Edit by default.
Besides which, I also can't think why I'd ever want to create a public URL that lets people edit the stuff in my dropbox.
Nancy
Regarding desktop, when I right click a folder and select "Copy Dropbox link" it creates a link that does NOT grant the "join folder" option, so that is ok.