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fridebidehu
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5 years ago

Blob URLs

Hello I am often downloading PDF files from the web, e. g. bank account statements and so on. When these documents are generated on the go (url starts with blob://), I cannot save them to Dropbox. ...
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Jay
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5 years ago
Since it seems to be the method in which Safari is downloading or exporting the page, there isn't much I can suggest since it doesn't appear to be related to Dropbox.

You can try contacting Apple for further assistance on this matter as they are the developers of Safari.
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fridebidehu
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago
That is getting interesting. I did the same operation with Google Drive and Microsoft Onedrive and they work just fine !
So it is definitely a problem with Dropbox.

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