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Bjarke_Daub
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9 years ago
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"Direct download" links are not working

Hello I am trying to make a folder public, but whenever I share the link the receivers (including myself) cannot download the files. We are guide to the file on dropbox but the file cannot be downlo...
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Mark
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9 years ago
For Public folders to still work you needed to be a paying user at the time free users lost access to it (15th March). It is not retro active.

Note as well this ONLY applied to links made inside 'Public' - no other changes happened.

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