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Image links to Amazon spreadsheets not working.
Can anyone tell me why Amazon keeps telling me it can not download my images from dropbox?
This is what the links look like:
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@sgordon02, that's because you posted preview link instead of direct link to file. Try following link: removed 😉 Does it works?
Hope this helps.
Can you explain the difference?
🙂The difference?
Ok. It's maybe fault in Dropbox documentation. There explanation is that you can create a link to desired file. Yes and no (no by default, at least). The default link that Dropbox gives doesn't point to the file!!! Something you may think is, but it's NOT. The link points to a page that visualize the pointed file. As you probably know, pages are HTML files that contain different things inside (including images). So when you provide the original link, got from Dropbox, you provide an HTML file, not some image. You can instruct Dropbox to provide actual file content instead of preview HTML. For that you need to replace one of the links parameters - dl. Originally it's 'dl=0'. To transform it to inline file content (including image, but not only) you have to replace with 'raw=1' (as I have done above). Other option is to instruct Dropbox force download directly the file pointed - should be set to 'dl=1'. They are slightly different but in you case probably both will work in the same way. 😉
Hope this clarifies matter.
