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Sarah N.
10 years agoNew member | Level 2
How to add a public dl.dropboxusercontent.com file to my dropbox?
Someone's sent me an enormous file with a public dropbox link like https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12345/filename.zip
My browser wants to download it, but I'd rather add it to my dropbox and do...
Sarah N.
10 years agoNew member | Level 2
I'm not actually sure where this SHARE button is or what you mean by a "regular shared link"... I think he's sharing via the windows right-click context menu > "copy public link".
But anyway, yes, I could ask the sender to share it with me some other way, but assuming I can't, is there no way to add a public dl.dropboxusercontent.com link to my private dropbox?
For a better example, here's a real public shared link which I generated via the right-click context menu "copy public link":
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