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Sarah N.
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10 years ago

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...
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Rich
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10 years ago

Public links don't give you that option. Only share links do. Share links are created by selecting Copy Dropbox Link and can be created for any file in your account (not just within the Public folder, which in no longer present in new accounts).

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