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Shared Link / "scl" to "s"
Hello. My question concerns my recent issue with file sharing. Usually, my links were generated in this way: 'https://www.dropbox.com/s/'. However, lately, every file is being generated in this way: 'https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/'. Do you know a way to restore the old way of generating links? I just need old way of links, because game can't read new links
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Direct Download on new link architecture is Solved
What is the DL parameter?
- Default link. This will render the content in the Dropbox file viewer.
- Downloads the content of the link (if the user has access to the content based on link settings). This query parameter takes precedence even if raw=1 is also added.
- Directly renders the content in the browser (if the link has a public audience and no other restrictions). Note that this link has an HTTP 302 redirect, so the application or browser must be able to follow the redirect.
What are the dl.dropbox... modifications?
These are link transformations from the early days of Dropbox. While we don't "officially" list these anymore in our Help Center, we are continuing to support them for now.- Replacing www with dl works exactly like a ?raw=1 link: this will directly render content for public links in the browser. It requires following an HTTP 302 redirect.
- Works like a ?raw=1 link, but the application or browser will not need to follow an HTTP 302 redirect to access the content.
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JasonSilverDBX wrote:...
While we took quick action to deliver a fix to allow direct download from shared links (see posts here and here), it seems it did not completely solve the problem. Some users on this thread have reported success, while others have not.
... Please do continue to provide details or any additional failures youāre seeing as it is a huge help!
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Hi JasonSilverDBX,
Let me make some notes. A big Dropbox pain is the provided features documentation (including documentation related to shared links). I have no idea who is/are responsible for documentation, but as seem involved are too lazy. Yes, LAZY! Usually documentation describing particular feature is (or has to be; it's a good practice) available before the feature roll out. What happens now? New link constructions are on go, but documentation that describe them is... missing (at this post time). How many time is needed and how many has passed?! š§ That's something very confusing! What if you're using some service and its features appearance changes without notice? Would you be glad? Here is the same!
It's the same for many other things Dropbox related (not to say all). There are feature available from day zero, that are still without proper documentation (and unusable in this context). Take a look here for such an example (shared links unrelated). There are many other such examples.
I hope you can do something to improve this documentation inconsistency in general (not only links related).
- No worries. Onedrive works. Keep your DB.
- So it looks like (no shade here) a staff member marked it at solved. I didnāt, and I think I commented earlier that Iām leaving it open because it hasnāt been resolved yet.
Iām unsure why theyād do that unless itās a way of protocol for them to keep tabs on the issue (like tallying the cases). But yeah, itās far from fixed and if anything it might have gotten a LOT worse 
BenDBXCommunity Manager
JasonSilverDBXDropbox Product Manager
Direct Download on new link architecture is Solved
What is the DL parameter?
- Default link. This will render the content in the Dropbox file viewer.
- Downloads the content of the link (if the user has access to the content based on link settings). This query parameter takes precedence even if raw=1 is also added.
- Directly renders the content in the browser (if the link has a public audience and no other restrictions). Note that this link has an HTTP 302 redirect, so the application or browser must be able to follow the redirect.
What are the dl.dropbox... modifications?
These are link transformations from the early days of Dropbox. While we don't "officially" list these anymore in our Help Center, we are continuing to support them for now.- Replacing www with dl works exactly like a ?raw=1 link: this will directly render content for public links in the browser. It requires following an HTTP 302 redirect.
- Works like a ?raw=1 link, but the application or browser will not need to follow an HTTP 302 redirect to access the content.
I am receiving an error trying to download a .tmb file. It was working 2 days ago just fine and for a number of years before this.
As of this morning, it's adding the /scl/fi to the file with a rlkey syntax, where it used to be /s without a rlkey parameter. I tried removing dl=1 with raw=1 but that does not work.
How can I set up direct downloads?
- Rich
Super User II
sj_usa wrote:
As of this morning, it's adding the /scl/fi to the file with a rlkey syntax, where it used to be /s without a rlkey paramter. How can I set up direct downloads?
Refer to the post directly above yours, from JasonSilverDBX.
I'm a long-time Dropbox user, and I always use the MacOS Dropbox app so I can get the direct links via the Mac Finder or Dropbox app in the top menu bar.
In the last few days, I notice that newly uploaded files have even longer links than files did in the past, and every time I try to download a file to test the link, I get a pop-up message from Safari asking permission to download each file.
I'm used to Safari asking me to allow downloads from a certain website but after I give permission, it never asked me again. It's almost as if each file/link have their own domain because I now have to give permission to download every file I test.
The longer links are terrible and so is the new security behavior.
If anybody from Dropbox reads this, please fix this ASAP and make it work like it used to.Here is some more info:
https://twitter.com/MysteryRoomMKE/status/1681092910480084994?s=20For the love of god STOP MAKING DROPBOX WORSE year after year. All these changes nobody asks for is making it total garbage.
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