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Leomat
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3 years ago

Error message - Link Temporally Disabled

Hi  I get a error message when I try and open a link which was emailed to me. Error message says " Link Temporally Disabled - This can happen when the link has been shared or downloaded to many tim...
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Rich
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3 years ago
Leomat wrote:

Error message says " Link Temporally Disabled - This can happen when the link has been shared or downloaded to many times in a day - Check again later and we'll open access to more people.

It's not a restriction put on the link by the company that sent it to you; it's a restriction put on their links by Dropbox because they've exceeded the sharing limits. They will need to resolve that issue before the link will work for you.

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