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Matthew T.19
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11 years ago
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Error (403) when trying to download my own files

Hi, I hope someone can help me with this. I log into my Dropbox account and try downloading any files and I get this message: - Error (403) It seems you don't belong here! You should probabl...
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Pearl Holding A
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10 years ago

I re-created the link a third time w/o a password, with an expiration date, and it worked. Then removed the link and created one with a password with no expiration date, it got the 403 error when trying to download the shared data.

So, the issue arises when a password is incorporated. 

This is needs to be fixed immediately! My Dropbox account just became useless, I must have have the added password security when sharing access to my data.

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